If it exists in the past, the present and the future . . .

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Jaya Guru Datta,

 

Here is today's saying:

 

“If we can accept that 'mere visibility is not the proof of existence', we will

have to accept that anything that we see need not be real and need not be

present even when we are seeing it!

 

Therefore, Vedanta says, ' only that which exists in all the three divisions of

time - past, present and future is real (Nitya Vastu =real object). Even if a

thing ceases to exist in one of the divisions, is to be considered as

non-existent in all the three states' (Anitya Vastu =unreal object).

 

When viewed from this standpoint, Parabrahman alone is the Nitya Vastu.

Therefore, the Vedas, Shastras, Puranas and the Upanishads - all have declared

that the manifest creation is unreal.

 

This knowledge is called as Nityaanitya Vastu Viveka. This is the first of the

four steps."

 

Sri Swamiji

Lessons in Vedanta - 25 part V

 

Sri Guru Datta,

 

Swamiji Says

 

 

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