Please Can You Explain, 'The World Is An Illusion' In Hindi?

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

Transcript

Music Music My Hindi is very bad so you'll have to please put up with whatever I come up with.

Okay,

I don't speak in Hindi much.

The way I see it,

Touch it,

Smell it,

Hear it,

That is called perception.

I don't know how to say it in Hindi so well.

So the way I perceive these five senses,

It is not the way it truly is.

Why?

Because eyes have a limitation.

I'll explain in English,

You'll understand I'm sure.

Eyes have a limitation.

Eyes cannot see beyond the particular range.

There is,

There,

Sometimes a cat can see in the dark and you cannot see.

Have you noticed that?

Yeah?

So our eyes have a particular range beyond which our eyes do not work.

Do you understand this?

Yeah?

So obviously what I see in this range is limited to my knowledge of only this range and I start believing that beyond this range things are not true.

Got it?

So what I see in the world through this range is not the complete truth.

That is the meaning of the world as I perceive is not,

Is an illusion basically.

Yeah?

For example,

Just say,

Sky.

In reality.

There is nothing magical,

Mystical.

It is just that Ecthey are and they can hear the sounds of planets.

Just the planets moving around in space make a sound.

Yeah,

So you can google all these things which is not audible for the human ear but then we use different kinds of hearing aid.

That kind of a parathesis to hear that which is not in our range.

Yeah,

So eyes,

Ears,

Touch,

Smell,

Yeah everything has a range and how do I perceive this world?

I perceive this world through these senses only.

Correct?

Yeah,

So I am in primary school,

High school,

Physics lab and I am in a refraction of light.

Then I am like oh,

The sky is colourless.

Refraction of light is blue.

Ocean.

What is the ocean?

Blue?

What is the ocean?

No,

I am not blue.

I am blue.

I am not colourless.

That is a reflection of the sky in the ocean.

So,

Reality is that I am aware of the sense of smell,

Sense of taste or sense of touch.

Reality is there.

But I don't perceive it.

So,

The world as I perceive it is an illusion.

So,

Is this part clear?

The way I am perceiving things is not 100% accurate.

Yeah,

This is clear.

So,

Now first I start with myself.

The way I perceive the I,

The ego that comes up and the mind and the way it creates drama.

It seems it's alive.

That is why I feel I am in the mind because I feel alive.

I feel conscious.

You understand the word conscious?

Jagrith mein suskarna.

Tumman aise lakta hai ki jagrith hai.

Uski apni ek jagrith hai.

Uski apni ek hone ki shakti hai.

Similarly,

Body hai se lakti hai.

Ki body mein jagrith hai.

Uski ek hone ki shakti hai.

I am very bad at Hindi really.

I don't know translation but basically we feel that the body is conscious by itself.

But really the body is not conscious by itself.

The mind is not conscious by itself.

They borrow this consciousness from the pure consciousness.

The way the light would reflect on a mirror.

That's how my mind is.

My mind has the quality of a mirror or light reflects on the mirror and that makes it feel as if it is shining or it is alive.

So the light is only an example.

You can say that consciousness is shining its energy on the mind and then the mind feels that I have my own power.

It does not come from outside.

It is my own power and that's what makes us feel that I am this person.

I am the mind.

Yes,

That's what makes the ego feel ki mein hu,

Mein kuch tohu.

I am something and that same quality is transferred to the body where the body also feels alive as if it is conscious by itself,

As if it has consciousness separate from others.

Apne aap mein shakti man hai.

Paro shakti man nahi hai.

Bodi ne to death ke baad body mein consciousness kyun hi hoti.

Why?

Even if I prick a dead body,

They don't feel it.

The body is dead.

So that means the inherent quality of the dead body is not consciousness.

It is a borrowed quality.

Super clear till here?

Now moving ahead.

Now when I realise,

Oh so I am not this body and I am not that mind or that ego.

I am the one who is knowing the body.

I am the one who is knowing the mind.

Oh there is this knowingness,

This silence,

The knower who is always there.

That is very clear,

Right?

That is your experience.

Yeah,

That knowingness is always there and then you start recognising that it's not like the knowingness is in the background and I am in the foreground.

Aage pechha nahi hai.

It's more like it's everywhere.

It's like energy.

It's like an energy field.

So this knowingness is everywhere.

Oh fantastic!

That means it is still that lamp.

It is still the computer.

It is still that table.

Oh it is everywhere.

This knowingness is everywhere.

Yes.

So now you start examining on the third leg that when I am touching something,

Touching the sofa,

Is touching different than knowing?

No,

It is knowing.

It is the same thing.

It is knowingness only.

So it is the same field of energy.

Yes.

Do you have a window where you are right now?

Yeah,

Go to the window.

What do you see in front of you wherever you are?

The building,

The trees.

Okay,

You see the trees.

People are there.

Okay and people are there and trees,

People and?

Beyond the trees,

Beyond the people.

Beyond all these things there is space.

So you see people,

Then you see trees and then you see buildings and beyond the buildings you see the sky.

Correct?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yes.

Keep looking at the sky and tell me what do you see beyond the sky?

Beyond the sky there is nothing.

What is that nothing?

The awareness.

Yeah and where is the awareness?

Is it out there?

Yeah but is it flying out there in the sky?

Do you have the.

.

.

No,

No.

Then where is it?

The sky is inside the awareness.

Where is the awareness that you saw?

Where is it?

It can't be seen.

Yeah,

Okay.

Experienced.

Where is this awareness?

Is it very far away from you?

No,

No.

It's everywhere like around me also.

It's me only.

Yes.

So you have reached the answer yourself.

Everything is in me.

Jagat mithya.

The world as I perceive it is an illusion.

Everything is just Brahman and Brahman is not different from me and Brahman is not different from this world.

Yes.

But that's again that sometimes it's not important that the objects are not real.

No,

I didn't say objects are not real.

I said the way I see objects,

The way I perceive objects is an illusion.

That does not mean they are not real.

I think the sky is blue but the sky is not.

.

.

I mean when I'm touching it I find it real.

Yes,

Yes that's because of conditioning.

When you were a little baby in the crib,

In the cradle and mummy gave you some toy,

Did you know what it was?

Did you even consider it as matter?

No,

You didn't even consider your body as matter.

No.

You just heard the sound of the toy or you heard the sound of the toy or you touched it.

It was nice and soft.

So you were only playing with the perception and the sensation it created in your body.

Are you getting it?

After that all the conditioning happened.

Advaita is nothing but higher level of understanding where all conditioning is broken and you're brought to your own pure experiencing.

So is this also a condition that somebody is standing in front of you?

Is a person.

.

.

Yeah,

We don't have proof that it is.

.

.

Yeah,

We don't have proof that that is a person,

That is a lamp,

That is a computer.

These are names that we have come up with.

That part is the conditioning.

My pure experience is what?

My pure experience is just the perception and the sensation it creates in the body.

That simple.

But isn't the perception of the brain what the mind?

Your brain is nothing,

Is not like functioning on its own.

No,

We just explained brain is a part of your.

.

.

Part of the body and the mind is reflecting its light on the brain.

Mind is reflecting its sense of being conscious to the physical body and then the physical body feels conscious.

So that means brain also functions according to my karma?

Your whole body mind complex will function according to your karmas.

There's nothing outside of karma.

Otherwise this body would not have been born.

So perception is of the brain,

Not the mind.

Sorry,

Of the mind.

Yes.

So