LIFE AND DEATH ARE AN ILLUSION
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FROM THE THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI, THE GREAT SPIRITUAL LUMINARY WHO GAVE PEACE AND BEATITUDE TO COUNTLESS FOLK DURING HIS LIFETIME, RELIEVING THEM OF THEIR ILLS AND SORROWS, AND WHOSE SOOTHING WORDS GUIDE HUMANITY EVEN TODAY, WHILE HIS PRESENCE FROM THE CELESTIAL PLANE IS EVER WITH US IN THE FORM OF HIS BLESSINGS.
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What appears before man is in reality God but what he sees instead is the world. What does this mean?
The world is merely an illusion created by ignorance.
When the veil of ignorance is removed, the world takes on the reality of God. This veil of ignorance is what has been described in the Vedas as Maayaa - an illusion. How can we understand this better?
Shri Nathji explains this beautifully. Think of a rope lying in a room in semi-darkness. You enter the room and see the rope in the dim light–and you think it is a snake. You are frightened. But when someone switches on a powerful light in the room you see the snake for what it is–it is a rope!
It had never been a snake! It was the dim light that showed a snake whereas in reality a rope had been present.
Thus it is with man: the dim light is his ignorance or little Faith. This ignorance produces an illusion-Maayaa which appears in the shape of the world of matter.
When he looks upon the world, he finds himself constantly in a state of restlessness and fear, he sees life and he sees death in the world.
However, when the full light of faith comes, the world disappears, and there is only God
And with the coming of this knowledge, all fears and worries cease, and man becomes a picture of peace and tranquility.
He realizes then that the world had in fact
never existed,and all that was before Him
was God Himself.
For such an enlightened soul there is just
the ocean of existence which is God, and in
this ocean of existence bubbles and ripples
and waves appear and disappear.
No one was born and no one died. It was all an interplay of God with Himself.
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PRIYA NATH MEHTA
SON OF
HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI
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