What is Real and What is Unreal?

[sridatta]

The happiness and misery in this world are based on the bonds you have with items present in the world. Real matter and real energy constitute these forms. The forms are only unreal designs of matter and energy. In a movie all the items are unreal designs of real energy [light] alone. In a drama all the items are mostly unreal designs of real matter and some energy also exists in the drama as the light focused on the stage. For God, this entire world is a movie, which is just the imagination of the awareness or nervous energy. Therefore, there is no difference between a movie and an imaginary world except that the movie is made of visible light energy and the imaginary world is made of invisible nervous energy or mind.

For individual souls, this world is a drama consisting of real materials and real human beings having an equal status as observers (individual souls existing in human bodies called as human beings). Hence, the world is equally real as the observing individual soul. But in the case of a movie, the observer is real matter, whereas the movie is real energy, which is weaker than matter in expression. Hence, the observer is at a higher status in view of the strength of expression. If you take the imaginary world, which is made of the weakest real energy or mind, the observer is at a far higher status.

In the case of God observing this world, God is at the highest status as the ultimate absolute reality whereas the world is totally a relative reality. However, from the view of God or the individual soul, the bonds in the world are totally unreal and illusory. They are related to the totally unreal designs of energy and matter. One bond is full of love for a particular design and another bond is full of anger for another particular design. Since the design is unreal, the related bonds must be unreal.

The design does not exist before its production and after its destruction. That which did not exist in the past and will not exist in the future cannot exist in the present also. Therefore, its existence in the present is only illusory. The love and anger in those bonds are foolish and if you analyze, even love and anger are unreal because they are qualities. A quality is also an unreal design of the mental energy. Hence, the love from somebody and the anger from someone else are also unreal and your love and anger based on such qualities are also unreal. Therefore, your bond based on the unreal design, which defines the individuality of a human being like wife, son, father, mother etc., must be also unreal. Your bond based on the personality of unreal qualities must be also unreal.

Therefore, when Shankara said that the world is unreal (relatively real), it means that only the world made of these unreal bonds is unreal for individual souls. Matter, energy and awareness (also a form of energy) are real for individual souls and hence the world made of these three items is not unreal. But, for God, the entire world is unreal. However, for both God and the individual soul, the common world consisting of the unreal bonds is unreal, which is the basis of the entertainment.

You can get entertained only with unreal items. The entertainment is not at all got from matter, energy and awareness, which are three uniform phases without any difference[3]. The difference alone causes the design and brings about limits which cause individuality. The cosmos is a single phase. It consists of matter, energy and awareness which are inter convertible and can be reduced to a final single phase of cosmic energy.

This cosmic energy (cosmos) is called as Brahman, in the form of creation (Karya Brahman) and this cannot give any entertainment. If you try to analyze God (Karana Brahman), it is also a homogeneous phase of an unimaginable entity[4]. Shankara represented God by this single-phased cosmic energy in the form of awareness or Karya Brahman. Awareness is a special work-form of energy. This clearly means that neither is Karya Brahman God nor does God charge Karya Brahman homogeneously. If such charging were to take place, there would be no difference between the seer and the seen. Such charging takes place only in the case of a human incarnation because if an individual soul is charged by God, that human incarnation can be the seer of the rest uncharged world (cosmic energy).



Therefore, analyze both love and hatred and realize that both are foolish as far as worldly bonds are concerned. Based on such foolish ignorance, if you become corrupt in your life for the sake of some unreal bonds and as a result if you are thrown into hell, you are the biggest fool. All this happens due to the lack of analytical spiritual knowledge. If you destroy these foolish ignorant bonds from your heart and entertain yourself continuously with these unreal bonds, you will be called as a Sthitaprajna (Prajahati Yada…—Gita), which means a person whose intelligence is firm by constant analysis. Divert your entire unreal love to God, who is the absolute reality and your love also becomes an absolute reality. Divert all your unreal hatred towards the above-said foolish ignorance and then your hatred becomes real and meaningful.

By this you can also avoid the unreal love towards your own religion, which is called conservatism. Religion is also an unreal design having individuality and limits. Then, you can avoid the hatred towards other religions based on the same analysis. There is one God and there is one message from God to all human beings on this earth. That message is Universal Spirituality. All the merits of each religion are concepts of Universal Spirituality. The unity in diversity among various forms of God and among various branches of philosophy, related to different levels, is an aspect of Hinduism that can be appreciated. Love and compassion leading to social service of the needy, in the name of God, should be appreciated from Christianity. Sincere faith in God and a disciplined life must be appreciated from Islam.

Control of desire through analysis carried out by intelligence (Buddhi), leading to justice and social service must be appreciated from Buddhism. Non-violence even towards animals and birds by avoiding non-vegetarian food, must be appreciated about Jainism. Avoiding the projection of non-God items as God through a systematic analysis of the world must be appreciated about science.

[Tcg]

Moderator Action

Moved. More preaching. No coherent question for debate.

______________

Moderator actions indicate that a thread/post has been locked, moved, merged, or split.
[Replying to sridatta in post #1]