Guest guest Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Namaste all. Sri Sankara taught, " brahma satyam jagan mithya " , or in English, " The Eternal is true, the world is false " . kastvaM ko 'haM kuta AyAtaH kA me jananI ko me tAtaH iti paribhAvaya sarvam asAraM vizvaM tyaktvA svapna vicAram (23) bhaja govindaM bhaja govindaM govindaM bhaja mUDhamate Who are you?...Who am I?...Whence are we? Who is my mother?...Who the father? ENQUIRE thus WITHIN, CASTING OFF THE NONESSENTIAL... The world entire...the phantasy of MERE DREAM! (23) Seek the Lord, Seek, Seek, Seek the Lord, Seek alone the Lord...O mud-headed fool! Krishna also said the same to Uddhava in Bhagavatam: " tasmAdasadabhidhyAnaM yathA svapna manorathAM hitvA mayi samAdhatsva mano madbhAva bhAvitam " (Bhagavatam 11.14.28) THEREFORE, GIVING UP DWELLING ON UNREAL WORLD, WHICH IS NO BETTER THAN DREAM OR FANTASY, (svapna manoratham) CONCENTRATE YOUR MIND ON ME, IN LOVE AND DEVOTION TO ME. " The 'dream' is FALSE only if the dreamer is awakened. The world is illusion to the liberated one. As long as the dreamer is dreaming on, though the dreamer is naturally in illusion, still wants to hold on to his dream as the real thing. Once the dreamer is awakened from the dream, he no longer believes in the illusion. So one has to wake up first. One cannot realize the dream as illusion as long as one is dreaming on indefinitely. Unless and until dreamer is awakened and liberated from the dream, he or she can NEVER realize that the dream itself was an illusion. For the DREAMING ignorant person with no spiritual realization, the world which is no better than a DREAM according to Krishna and Shankara, both being LIBERATED, non-dreaming divine Souls. So Lord Krisna and Shankara gave good anology to the world as a dream, illusion, mithya, false etc. We can feel every emotion, contact with the flesh of the bodies around, all sensory functions being intact in those dreams of ours. But once we are awakened to the reality, then only we REALIZE that what we have experienced in the dream was false and illusion. During the dream state we are DEVOID of the realization of awakened state. We take it for granted that dream itself is the truth as long as we are not awakened and realized the reality. There was a story in Puranas about Narada muni asking Lord Krishna about the illusory effect of 'Maya' on the soul. Krishna said, " You'll come to know at the appropriate time. " On one blessed day, as They were walking together in the jungle, Lord felt tired and thirsty. So He asked Narada to get some water to drink from the near by village while He rested under a tree. Narada went to the village and approached a nice cottage where he found a young, beautiful maiden. At once he fell in love with her and forgot all about his fetching water for thirsty Krishna. He felt life without her was useless and insisted upon marrying her. Her father being the village-chief, everything went on well, Narada was able to marry her and settle down in the village as a householder, continued serving as the village-chief after his father-in-law. He had many children, grand children, performed their marriages, and retired from the village-chief position. There came a big storm and flood in which all his family was drowned, his house was ruined and he himself was on the verge of death. Then suddenly he remembered his savior Lord and with all his heart he started praying to Him for his loss and miserable condition. Immediately Lord appeared in front him and asked Narada about the water he was supposed to bring to quench the thirst of the Lord Who was waiting for him anxiously. Narada realized how he too was succumbed to the illusion of Lord's Maya. It was just like a 'dream', so 'unreal', but at the same time it appeared so 'real', as he experienced the pleasures and pains in the dream totally forgetting his natural divine state of Lord's eternal servant. This is Maya, false as the illusion of the DREAM state. Only those LIBERATED (awakened from the dream) souls know that the material world is Mithya, unreal, as a DREAM. The rest will never able to percieve it, as they themselves are helplessly under its spell, dreaming, life after life! Jaya Sri Radhe! -------------- > > 'Oh, king,' said Sankaracharya ...Everything in this world is an illusion.' > Shankar was a wise man, or just a smooth talker? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 Namaste pyari_h ji,  Thank you for this mail and all the other beautiful and profound mails from you , that we have had the privilege of reading. Regards Rwitoja  --- On Tue, 5/1/10, pyari_h <no_reply > wrote: pyari_h <no_reply > " brahma satyam jagan mithya " Tuesday, 5 January, 2010, 23:12  Namaste all. Sri Sankara taught, " brahma satyam jagan mithya " , or in English, " The Eternal is true, the world is false " . kastvaM ko 'haM kuta AyAtaH kA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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