THE UTTER ILLUSION OF DAILY LIFE
"We read the articles in a newspaper, but do not care to know anything about the paper itself. We take 'the chaff', but Not 'the substance'. The substratum - on which all this is printed, is the paper, and if we know the substratum, all else will be known. The One only is The Sat - The Existence; IT is the paper, whereas the world - the things we see - and we ourselves, are the printed words. This 'external universe', is a 'cinema show', to 'The Realized One'. It is free, and the performance goes on, day and night! 'The Realized One', lives and works in it, knowing that its objects and bodies (people), are 'illusory appearances', just as an ordinary person, knows the scenes and characters on the cinema screen at a theatre, are illusions, and do not exist in Real Life. But the ordinary person takes the external objects of daily life as 'Real', whereas The Realized One, sees them only as 'illusory cinema pictures'." |