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136 Twelve Facets of Reality you say, “I am knowledge. Before, I was covered by ignorance. Now I am uncovering myself. I was hidden. Now I am coming out. I am removing the veils, the curtains until the reality of my Self is revealed.” When you believe in you, you start experiencing inner richness.
That gives you such a deep confidence that insights start coming and doubts drop away. Doubts which came from the outside stay outside; they don't belong in your inner world.
Before we begin to unfold our inner treasure of bodhi, we are covered with mithyathva, ignorance. Because of ignorance, we take one thing for another. Our main mistake is this: we take the body for the soul and the soul for the body. In this confusion, there is pain because of being unable to discriminate between the two. When something happens to the body, immediately we allow the soul to become identified with it. From this, our moods, fears, depressions, and projections begin.
Because of mithyathva, we do not see that the longing of the soul is an entirely different thing from the desire of the body. When these two are mixed up, then love is taken for lust, and lust is taken for love. We need one thing, but we take another thing instead. So we must ask ourselves, “What is my longing for soul companionship? What is the desire of my body to get gratification?”
We need love. It is the food of the soul; we cannot live without it. Love is not planning, it is not remembering. It exists only in the present moment. In love, there is no desire to hold, possess, or bind. To hold on to someone or something else is to disconnect from oneself. In disconnecting from yourself, you disconnect from the present moment, because your energy is used on the future. In this way, the experience of life, of love is slipping
