Real Vs Unreal

Real Vs Unreal

Just as sounds arise and disappear in silence, clouds float in the sky, waves rise and fall in the ocean, Egos float in the emptiness of the Shunya state.

Silence, sky, ocean, and the Shunya state are where things return, because they are permanent.

Anything transient cannot be your home; let permanence be your home.

Every thought is a wave in the ocean of our psyche, and a wave is a disturbance in this otherwise calm ocean.

Our psyche is pure awareness without any thoughts.

What do the thoughts do?

They connect us with someone or something that is not here.

This requires imagination, and the one who provides that imagination is the mind.

Mind works very hard for that, though.

It digs the past; it explores the imaginary future, and somehow, by hook or crook, it does bring whatever we want, in a fraction of a second, into our present – NOW.

Of course, it does not bring REAL someone or REAL something, but only an image of them.

These images are so sharp and so real-looking that we get fooled into thinking they’re real and keep playing with them all our lives.

( Just the way Kaushalya ( mother of Raam ) made Raam ( mythical Hindu God ) happy by showing him the reflection of the moon in a water-filled vessel when he insisted on playing with the real moon).

Believing in these images is MAYA, an illusion.

The path of meditation is the path of honesty.

Only by insisting on honesty will you be able to sift through the massive pile of such images and eventually reveal the ocean of crystal-clear awareness hidden within all of us, in total silence.

That will be your TRUE SELF.

That’s when you will develop dispassion towards the illusory Sansar.

Who would continue playing with pebbles once they got diamonds?