Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES 17 upon their revelation ? It is a huge illusion that lies stretched before us ; a tremendous perennial dream is being played on the mystery-stage! Yet the actors are the very spectators who have forgotten themselves. What is it all due to? How, why, where and when it began? How, why, where and when will it end? How, why, where and when came the spectators to en. gage themselves as actors ? It is no good putting these questions ; can a dreamer expect to get satisfactory answers to such questions while the dream persists ? No ; you should similarly wait till you are safely out of it. Even this talk about a getting out of it is illu. sory. You were never in it; how, then, can there be a getting out for you? This is mâyâ the anii unchaniya (indescribable) ! Underlying this huge panoramic illusion is one reality or existence, immutable, all-pervading, self-subsisting. This ubiquitous existence is character. ised by sat (existence), chit (consciousness) and ananda (bliss), and is termed, after its attributes, Sachchida. nanda (Sat-chit-ananda). It is also called Brahman. It is the only reality ; there is nothing else in existence, Individual souls are of the nature of phantoms in a dream ; they have no existence of their own. There is no question of salvation or of being saved. Know yourself to be free and free you are there and then, This sublime truth is to be realised to escape from the illusory misery of an illusory world. Self-knowledge is necessary for the realisation of the idea of the Self, that is the true reality and the only existence. Self
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