"From time immemorial the world is considered as illusory --not Real! The great maxim " brahma Satyam, Jagan mithya" affirms this idea! In sri Dakshina Murthy Stothra Adi Sankara says " viswam darpana drusyamana nagari thulyam!" the entire Universe is akin to the sight of a town in the mirror! It is only the image or reflection of the real object! As we live in this illusory world we are surely in a make-believe existence! It is MAYA or Illusion that compels us to consider the real as false and the false as real! When man emerges out of this maya he realizes his self and knows that he is the ATMA that has no death at al!! Lord krishna tells Arjuna on the battle field that he should not confuse the body with the soul or atma! All of us think that our body is the atma or soul and suffer the consequences This is just a simple example! But to realize that we are in a make believe world is extremely difficult! Our cinema experience is another example! We admire the hero,his heroics, songs, laugh at jokes, feel sad at the sufferings in the theater on the silver screen! For over a few hours in the theater we think it is all real but soon after coming out realize that it is all make-believe!! " ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE and ALL MEN and WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS" says Shakespeare!!!!"
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