(as understood through the book ‘What is Advaita’ by K.Sankarnarayan)
‘Brahm Satya Jagat Mithya’ is an oft-repeated sentence most spiritualists would have heard. It is generally translated as ‘God is real; world is an illusion’. However, there is a confusion of sorts here.
First of all, let us look at what ‘reality’ or ‘truth’ is :
Key Learning points from
Dharma is a complex word and is untranslatable. It means variously virtue, duty and law, but is chiefly concerned with doing the right thing. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something to do with it, but they all fall short.
Dharma refers to ‘balance’ – both moral balance and cosmic balance. It is the order and balance within each human being which is also reflected in the order of the cosmsos. It is the moral law that sustains the society, the individual and the world. It is the discipline of ordered existence.
By ALAN WATTS
Spiritual shouldn’t be separated from material nor the wonderful from the ordinary. We need, above all, to disentangle ourselves from the habit of speech and thought which set this two apart making it impossible for us to see that THIS – the immediate, everyday and present experience – is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
by Alan Watts
We have been brought up in a religious tradition, that to a great extent has taught us to mistrust the nature around us and to mistrust our own selves as well. But the irony here is that if u cannot trust your own basic nature, then how can you trust your own mistrusting ? Isnt your mistrusting a part of your nature ? How do u know that your mistrusting is not wrong as well ? If you do not trust your own nature, you become as tangled up as anyone can be.
Confucius was the first to say that he would rather trust human passions and instincts than trust human ideas about what is right, for like the Taoists he realized that we have to allow all living things to look after themselves.
