Discrimination between the Real and the

||  Shri Hari  ||

Discrimination between the Real and the
Unreal

(सत्‌-असत्‌का विवेक)

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To regard oneself as important on the basis of the unreal, which does not exist is the fundamental fault, which gives rise to all defects. Feeling one’s own importance on the basis of the one, which is the real, is the original virtue, by which all virtues are born. The error we make is, that which is non existent is considered by us as existent and as ours, while the one which exists in reality, is not regarded by us as existent and as our own. One, which is acquired shall depart away, how can it be our own? By presuming the one, which is not existent, as our own, the capacity to presume one which is really existent is lost. From the angle of Knowledge one’s own “self” is ours and from devotional angle, God is our own. To have affection in one’s own self is knowledge and to love one’s own beloved is devotion.  


There is a principle  that one which is there in the beginning and in the end, will also exist in the middle (present) and one which does not exist in the initial stage and in the end period, does not remain in the middle (present) also. 


Just as we know that the physical body and this world did not exist in the very beginning and they shall not remain later on and in the middle they are going toward destruction by continuously changing every moment i.e. they are dying every moment. But one who owns the body i.e. the self and divine reality (God) both existed in earlier
period, they shall exist ultimately and also exist in the middle in the same condition.



One, that does not exist in the beginning and is not in existence finally, is dying every moment continuously while one who exists in the beginning and in the end, also exists every moment continuously. One whose non-existence is continuously known, that is called unreal and the one whose existence is present every moment continuously, is the eternal reality. We are ever disconnected with the unreal and we have eternal union with the real.
 

Pleasure - pain, sorrow-happiness, attachment-aversion, passion-anger etc., come and go but one’s own self eternally exists unchanged. The aspirant falls prey to a big error that he looks at the changing situations and not at the eternal entity (the self). The situation neither existed in the earlier period nor shall it stay later on, therefore in spite of it’s appearance in the midst, it really does not exist. But in the entity, there is neither beginning, nor middle nor end. By giving consideration only to the situation, the beginning, middle and end of the entity is
stated. The situation never remains uniform and its basis or existence never becomes multiform. That which comes into view and the viewer both are situations. That which comes to be known as well as the knower is the situation. In the absolute reality there is neither the seer nor the seen, neither the knower, nor the object to be known, neither he who explains, nor he to whom it is explained to, neither the orator, nor the listener. The seer and the seen are all included in an event. The onlooker and the scene shall not stay but their basis, the real entity shall remain and persist because the situation shall finish but its basis shall exist eternally. (continued.....)

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