The Created World Could Be An Illusion
IN a dream, we experience physicality not in the sense of our waking state, but simply as a particular state of consciousness. We seem to be moving around without our physical body moving and seem to be "feeling" sensations without our external sense organs coming into the picture. So in essence, nothing really happens in the dream. It is all simply a manifestation of the dream-consciousness. Likewise, the waking state existence may also be illusory, just a play of waking-state consciousness. The fundamental principle, namely Brahmn, the Over soul, is eternal and gets neither created nor destroyed. It temporarily manifests as physical creation. A human being does not exist before birth; then he gets born and comes into physical existence, lives for some time and then dies, disappearing from the physical world. So why should the temporary existence-in between non-existence before life and again non-existence after physical life-be taken seriously? Before a movie show begins, the screen is blank. Then suddenly it comes alive and unfolds an interesting story with many characters. The audience gets involved in the story, identifying with the characters and their pains and pleasures. Then, when the movie ends, all those characters and story vanish. They suddenly become irrelevant. Some members of the audience get emotionally affected, because they identify strongly with certain characters portrayed in the movie. But a rare few do not get affected because they never forget that the movie is an illusion and that their real identity is different and unaffected by the movie. We should regard our life in this world like a movie show that our consciousness is watching and we should not identify with our physical body, nor get attached to the events in our life. The created world could be an illusion and so, may not really exist! So it has no beginning, no existence and no end. However, the illusion is nevertheless perceived by us and is felt as real. That illusion is as such quite powerful. The only way we can destroy this illusion is by developing vairagya-disinterest/detachment-in the worldly life. Some believe that there is a God, who has created this creation. However, God does not create anything. This creation is a natural manifestation of the Creator's Prakriti, inherent aspect. The Creator does not deliberately engage in any action to bring creation into existence-it just happens. So the Creator is not directly responsible for creation, though creation cannot come into existence without the Creator. One way to understand this is tore Gard creation as the Creator's Dra dream happens because the dreams sleeping and the dream is a natuphenomenon in sleep. The dream does not design the dream, nor doe: control the dream, but it happens in natural way that is inherent to the the dreamer is. Like the dreamer is “responsible" for the dream, the Спmay be said to be "responsible"forcreation, but only in a passive way. The happenings in a dream are illuswith nothing actually happening in external physical worldly sense. Hence the happenings in our life should not be attributed to an all-powerful Creator; rather, they should simply be experienced at thmaterial time and then put behind move on without carrying any bag
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The views expressed in the Article above are Kishor Kulkarni views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Kishor Kulkarni and Speaking Tree,Times of India
The Created World Could Be An Illusion
IN a dream, we experience physicality not in the sense of our waking state, but simply as a particular state of consciousness. We seem to be moving around without our physical body moving and seem to be "feeling" sensations without our external sense organs coming into the picture. So in essence, nothing really happens in the dream. It is all simply a manifestation of the dream-consciousness. Likewise, the waking state existence may also be illusory, just a play of waking-state consciousness. The fundamental principle, namely Brahmn, the Over soul, is eternal and gets neither created nor destroyed. It temporarily manifests as physical creation. A human being does not exist before birth; then he gets born and comes into physical existence, lives for some time and then dies, disappearing from the physical world. So why should the temporary existence-in between non-existence before life and again non-existence after physical life-be taken seriously? Before a movie show begins, the screen is blank. Then suddenly it comes alive and unfolds an interesting story with many characters. The audience gets involved in the story, identifying with the characters and their pains and pleasures. Then, when the movie ends, all those characters and story vanish. They suddenly become irrelevant. Some members of the audience get emotionally affected, because they identify strongly with certain characters portrayed in the movie. But a rare few do not get affected because they never forget that the movie is an illusion and that their real identity is different and unaffected by the movie. We should regard our life in this world like a movie show that our consciousness is watching and we should not identify with our physical body, nor get attached to the events in our life. The created world could be an illusion and so, may not really exist! So it has no beginning, no existence and no end. However, the illusion is nevertheless perceived by us and is felt as real. That illusion is as such quite powerful. The only way we can destroy this illusion is by developing vairagya-disinterest/detachment-in the worldly life. Some believe that there is a God, who has created this creation. However, God does not create anything. This creation is a natural manifestation of the Creator's Prakriti, inherent aspect. The Creator does not deliberately engage in any action to bring creation into existence-it just happens. So the Creator is not directly responsible for creation, though creation cannot come into existence without the Creator. One way to understand this is tore Gard creation as the Creator's Dra dream happens because the dreams sleeping and the dream is a natuphenomenon in sleep. The dream does not design the dream, nor doe: control the dream, but it happens in natural way that is inherent to the the dreamer is. Like the dreamer is “responsible" for the dream, the Спmay be said to be "responsible"forcreation, but only in a passive way. The happenings in a dream are illuswith nothing actually happening in external physical worldly sense. Hence the happenings in our life should not be attributed to an all-powerful Creator; rather, they should simply be experienced at thmaterial time and then put behind move on without carrying any bag
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Kishor Kulkarni views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Kishor Kulkarni and Speaking Tree,Times of India