Vivekachudamani 20
so' yam nitya nitya vastuvivekah samudahrtah
(Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 20)
A firm conviction that Brahman alone is Real and the phenomenal world is unreal is known as discrimination between the Real and the unreal.
This material creation is the spirit soul’s dream. Actually, all existence in the material world is a dream of Maha-Vishnu, as the Brahma-Samhita describes – “This material world is created by the dreaming of Maha-Vishnu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation.
We dream, “I am this body,” and we dream of happiness in material relationships. This dreaming condition is our non-liberated state. But although this state of dreaming may seem to last for lifetimes, as soon as we become in contact with Ramachandra then we are awakened, and the dream at once disappears. “After millions and millions of years of keeping oneself away from the lila [pastimes] of the Lord, when one comes to the state of bhakti this period becomes insignificant, like dreaming.”
“One should know he is in conditioned life and try to cure it.… Forgetfulness of Lord Rama is the disease, so let us keep ourselves always in understanding Lord Rama and get out of the disease. That is a healthy life.”
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