Unreal World

When you recognise the world to be unreal and ephemeral , you will no longer have any love for it.

Suppose rice is boiling in the pot , to test whether it is properly boiled , you take one grain from it and press the same between your fingers. At once you come to know whether the whole pot of rice is boiled or not. Surely you would not press each and every grain of rice.

Just as you know the condition of the rice by testing only a few grains , so also you can know whether the world is real or unreal , eternal or ephemeral , existent or non - esistent , by examining two or three objects in it . Man is born , Lives for some days , and then die. So too are animals and trees born and live and die. Discriminating like this , you come to know that the same is the fate of all things endowed with name and from , even of the earth , the sun and the moon. Do you not thus come to understand the nature of all things in the universe ? When you thus recognise the world to be unreal and ephemeral , you will no longer have any love for it . You will renounce it from the mind , and become free from all desires . When you succeed in this act of renunciation , you come gains the realisation of God in this way - if he is not all - knowing , what else is he ?

Rishi Amrit August 2008