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Shri Hari ||
Discrimination between the Real and
the Unreal
(सत्-असत्का विवेक)
There is a
verse in Srimad Bhagavadgita -
Naasato
vidyate bhaavo naabhaavo vidyate satah |
Ubhayorpi
drusthontstvanayostadarshibhih || (Gita 2/16)
The unreal
has no existence, and the real never ceases to be. The reality of both has been
perceived by the seers of truth.
(1)
The first
part of this verse is -
Naasato
vidyate bhaavo naabhaavo vidyate satah |
These
sixteen letters, are fill with the real essence of all the Vedas, Shastras and
Puranas. The eternal consciousness alone is `sat`, the ultimate reality and
besides this everything else is non-existing and inert which includes the
perishable and changeable nature and the evolutes of nature (objects and activities).
What is perceived by seeing, listening, understanding, thinking, decision
making etc., by an individual is unreal (non-existing). The tools by which we
are able to see, listen, think etc., all those also are unreal (non-existing
and what is visible to an individual is also unreal (non-existing).
Non-existing and real existence both of them have been named differently as
Nature and Purusa (the self), as perishable and immortal, as body and the soul,
as destructible and non-destructible etc.
In the
previous first half verse (composed of sixteen letters) three elements have
been unsed.
(1)
Non-existence and existence (bhoo sattayaam)
(2) As
unreal and real (as bhoovi)
(3) As
existing and Non-existing (vid sattaayaam)
Although
the fundamental meaning of these roots is existence alone, but in the subtle
form all these three also have their independent meanings e.g. Bhoo root means
creation, as root means existence, and vid root means existence of the
present.
(2)
Naasato
vidyate bhaavah - The meaning of these terms is asatah bhaavah na vidyate
That the unreal has no existence i.e. the non-real is not present, the non-real
is not attained. The thing which is created, certainly gets destroyed. This is
the law. A thing just after origin starts toward the process of destruction,
the destruction takes place at such a fast speed that no one can look at it in
the same condition for two successive occasions. This is the principle that the
object, which is non-existing at any moment, is always non-existent. We may
give whatever amount of power, consider it as high as possible, give it respect
to any extent, give it whatsoever significance but in reality it is not in
existence. The non-real is never attained, it shall also never be achieved. The
availability of non-real is just not possible.
The meaning of the verse naabhaavo vidyate satah is satah abhaavah ne vidyate i.e. the reality is never non-existing which means that it always exists. In other words, the entity of real self exists universally, the reality is omnipresent and ever present. The real is ever attained and is always permanent. In no country, time, thing, person, incident, circumstance, state and action etc.,there is the dearth of real entity.
From book in Hindi "Amartaa ki Aur" and in English
"Discovery of Immortality and Truth" by Swami Ramsukhdasji.
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