All our world comes from truth and untruth coupled together. Samsara (life) is the result of the contradictory forces acting upon us, like the diagonal motion of a ball in a parallelogram of forces.
The world is God and is real, but that is not the world we see; just as we see silver in the mother - of - pearl where it is not.
This is what is known as Adhyasa or superimposition, that is, a relative existence dependent upon a real one, as when we recall a scene we have seen; for the time it exists for us, but that existence is not real.
Or some say, it is as when we imagine heat in water, which does not belong to it; so really it is something which has been put where it does not belong, "taking the thing for what it is not".
We see reality, but distorted by the medium through which we see it.
- Swami Vivekananda
The world is God and is real, but that is not the world we see; just as we see silver in the mother - of - pearl where it is not.
This is what is known as Adhyasa or superimposition, that is, a relative existence dependent upon a real one, as when we recall a scene we have seen; for the time it exists for us, but that existence is not real.
Or some say, it is as when we imagine heat in water, which does not belong to it; so really it is something which has been put where it does not belong, "taking the thing for what it is not".
We see reality, but distorted by the medium through which we see it.
- Swami Vivekananda
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