Monday, January 23, 2023
Sunday, January 8, 2023
unreal
Vedantin scholar, Shankaracharya. He went from one end of India to the other, only to preach his philosophy that the world is unreal. People asked him, “If the world is unreal, as you say, why are you wasting your time going from place to place? From your room you can declare that the world is unreal. But we feel that this world is real.”
Shankaracharya’s answer was, “If I do not go from place to place and offer the message that the world is unreal, people will not hear my philosophy. You live in one place and your friends live in another place. I must also visit your friends to share my realisation with them.”
Again, his critics asked, “If this world is unreal, why are you wasting your time and energy? Just pray to God to take you away!”
Shankaracharya said, “No, I cannot do that. God is asking me to tell people that the world is unreal.”