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"This is a dream, this world" - Shravak.
(475) Like cities! Illusionists create a city in the sky, but that illusory city disappears in an instant! The sky city vanishes into thin air! Or, it is impossible to create a city in the sky, a world without support! Building castles in the air is impossible, like the illusory imaginations of a charlatan! Similarly, these external objects like the body, house, etc., are momentary and illusory, they exist and cease to exist in an instant. These bodies, etc., are truly external to the soul, they are external influences, the soul has nothing to do with them in the ultimate sense. In the words of Shri Devchandraji, "Matter does not mix with matter, the feeling is different and unattainable." The inert is inert and the conscious is conscious, this is the unchanging state in all three times. Therefore, any imagination of a relationship with the body, etc., is like the illusory imagination of creating a city in the sky. As Shri Pujyapad Swami ji has said, "From the delusion of the self in the body, the imaginations of son, wife, etc., have arisen, and by this, the world, believing in the wealth of the soul, has been destroyed!" "The electric Lakshmi, the lordly kite, the life is like the waves of water; the Purandari bow, the eternal color, what is the use of ruling there for a moment?" - Shrimad Rajchandraji.
Or, these external objects like the body, house, etc., are like dreams. Just as the things seen in a dream do not appear in the waking state, they appear illusory, similarly, these body, etc., imaginations seen in the state of ignorance, the dream state, do not appear real in the state of knowledge, the state of self-awareness, they appear illusory. Or, whatever it is, the world is like a beautiful dream. If a beautiful dream comes and all kinds of excellent things are gathered in it, still, it does not take long for it to dissolve in an instant; and alas! Those things are gone and our things are gone! - This illusory regret remains in the mind! Similarly, if this body, house, etc., has a beautiful combination and the power of a chakravarti, etc., is attained and there is an abundance of excellent enjoyments, even then, all of it disappears in an instant like a dream, and alas! These things are gone, this worry remains in the mind! "The beggar's regret" is an apt illustration that Shrimad Rajchandraji has described in Moksha Mala, it applies here perfectly. A beggar has a dream of excellent royal splendor, and then he experiences excitement in that dream, and then alas! A storm comes - thunder and lightning roar, and his dream remains incomplete, only regret remains for him! Thus, this world is truly like a dream, therefore, the simple, piercing words of the whip-wielding Bhaja Bhagata have sung the truth with a mixed heart, that animals! Take refuge in the Kirtar, this is...