Illusion vs Reality

- Ritvvij Parrikh
Mumbai, India

There are so many things in life that are beyond our understanding... You feel that this is our field of interest and that this will be the best career you can opt for.. You feel that this person is so not your types.. n you will just not get along.. Sometimes.. you meet a person and you feel.. yes this person is perfect for me.. we match 100%.. There are a million case scenarios where this topic fits in..!! The human mind creates a lot of illusions within its head... n that is not what is life..


Is life a reality? Is everything around us... a reality or just an illusion?

You never know! 99% of us believe in God and other things not because we know him or anything. We have been taught to do so since childhood. Other more rational creatures follow Mr. God because they want a feeling of an elder brother looking giving them comfort in this unknown world.

Everything on this planet, everything that we consider truth and the facts... are they actually facts or just a work of fantasy! I will agree with one thing for sure and that is... humans surely do have an excellent imagination. Delete everything that has been created by human imagination and virtually all i know becomes extinct!!!!

For sometime... Let us assume that d following ideas n concepts that i will state now... are nothing but works of imagination and not reality. Then you must remove them from your life... Slowly steadily each one of them.. n see HOW MUCH OF UR PRESENT LIFE actually exists!!

Eliminate these concepts and your world will change upside down. And if these concepts are truly works of human imagination... then life truly is nothing but an illusion.

The concepts are as follows:

1) The idea that our senses can be deluged and vices disappears
2) The idea of spirit and our ATMAN disappears
3) The idea of ability to communicate with the spirit world and priests disappears
4) The idea of God and religion disappears
5) The idea of Universal Morality : Good vs Evil and justice disappears
6) The idea that God has a language and Mr. Pope and priests disappears
7) The idea of after-life and Pyramids disappears
8) The idea that God loves man and that he is Mr. All-compassionate and we stop praying
9) The idea of reshaping - controlling nature and science disappears
10) Man is not an animal and Human rights become animal rights
11) The idea of marriage and family disappears
12) The idea of divine justice and RELIGION disappears
13) The work-leisure divide and ALL WORK n NO PLAY MAKES JACK SAD disappears
14) The idea of fate and palmistry and numerology... disappears
15) The idea that the holy scriptures are infallible and the Koran, Bible and Bhagwat Gita disappears
16) The idea of human superiority and we become equal with animals
17) The idea of reincarnation and the KARMA concept from Bhagwat Gita disappears
18) The idea of Utopia and Democracy disappears
19) The idea of religion as law and Islam disappears
20) The idea of divine incarnation and Jesus disappears

Now, for one moment, I will delete these concepts from your life...

And then see how much is left in your life intact.
Ok, let’s forget these concepts. I want you to look at yourself. We lead our lives as actors in a play. Every human since birth sees life with himself as the central character - a protagonist. So he starts creating a delusion since childhood. As life progresses, he sees and tries to relate every occurrence in the world wrt himself. There is always a difference between reality and what each one feels he is.

One of the topics in the group is THE BOOK ABOUT EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD..

Well, going by the theory of delusion vs reality... the easiest way to write the book about EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD.. is give each one a BLANK notebook and ask them to write their views about everything they know... n voila you would have a BOOK about EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD for that person which he would COMPLETELY agree too..

The reason behind this is that every human believes that his illusions and perceptions ARE the reality.. and nothing else is the truth.. Our minds r highly dogmatic!

Are the laws of nature made by man IN FACT the laws of nature.. or just a delusion? Back in Mediavial Europe, it was believed that the Sun was revolving around the Earth.. until Galileo proved the other way round. Then the laws of nature were different and now it is different.. Few years back Einsteins Theory of relativity controlled SPACE n TIME.. Now the Strings theory developed by TIFR, Mumbai Are the laws of nature changing or our illusions about them?

There are many ancient theories that also do talk about Illusion vs Reality..
Two of them are Hindu philosophies. One is Maya and the other is the one followed by Shiva. Both believe that the world is an illusion.

Illusion vs reality and Knowledge.. I read this somewhere :)

There is some things I know that I know
Somethings I know i don't know...
Somethings I don't know that I know..
Somethings I don't know that i don't know..
This is d truth...

No one can ever say how much his knowledge or thinking is worth... Ur intelligence can b an illusion.. your stupidity can b an illusion too..

Nothing can be said for sure..

Once.. Birbal was asked Where is the center of the Earth.. - He took a stick n banged it against the floor n shouted.. this is it.. if not.. prove it!

So.... make it a practise to break this illusion n come into reality.. by indexing and trying out your capabilities... YOU SHOULD KNOW YOURSELF!!

To live in reality is to accept the harsh truth of life... Reality is always painful.. To live in illusion is to have life the way you want it... u can do whatever u want.. you can b God..
IN LIFE.. we must select a middle path between the two... a 3rd side...

If we alone live in reality then the harsh world will kill our fire n desire to live.. we ll b living zombies dragging on and on.. If we alone live in illusion then.. we ll lose track of reality... n go mad! A balance needs to be maintained!!