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What is Real?
We could define ‘real’ as something which never changes. In order to change, a thing has to cease to be what it is and become something else; i.e. it would have to become what it is not.
Therefore, anything that changes cannot be real, since the act of changing involves non-existence
What is Unreal?
Unreal is the appearance of something in the place/location of its non-existence. Example the snake appears where it does not exist, ie the rope. The snake appears in the location of its own absence. This is the very definition of falsity or unreality.
Where something is not, there it appears.
Then it is false.
Blue color appears in the sky where it does not exist. The blue color appears where there is no blue color. The sky is not blue.
Similarly, the entire universe of experience (waking world, dream world, deep sleep blankness) continuously appears and disappears in the sky of Awareness.
Awareness is the locus or location of the absence of the mind. Awareness is where the mind appears, plays it games and dissapears. Hence, the mind is unreal.
The locus in which something appears and disappears, then in that locus, that thing is an appearance and unreal. The locus only is real.
You are that locus - Awareness.
—Swami Sarvapriyananda
Lectures on Mandukya Karika
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Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air, is simply the result of the strange properties of a little membrane.
If that membrane did not exist, sound would not exist either, since in itself it is merely vibration. Would we be able to detect music without the ear? Of course not. Well, we are surrounded by things whose existence we never suspect, because we lack the organs that would reveal them to us.
—Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)
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Nature is a temple in which
living columns sometimes
emit confused words.
Man approaches it through
forests of symbols, which
observe him with familiar glances.
—Charles Baudelaire(1821 - 1867)
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