Vivekananda Mailing List-3/15/04

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I was once travelling in the desert in India. I travelled for over a

month and always found the most beautiful landscapes before me,

beautiful lakes and all that. One day I was very thirsty and I wanted

to have a drink at one of these lakes; but when I approached that lake

it vanished. Immediately with a blow came into my brain the idea that

this was a mirage about which I had read all my life; and then I

remembered and smiled at my folly, that for the last month all the

beautiful landscapes and lakes I had been seeing were this mirage, but

I could not distinguish them then. The next morning I again began my

march; there was the lake and the landscape, but with it immediately

came the idea, " This is a mirage. " Once known it had lost its power of

illusion. So this illusion of the universe will break one day. The

whole of this will vanish, melt away. This is realization.