Sage Vasishtha
The notions of far and near, a moment and eternity, are all hallucinations: in ignorance the real appears to be unreal, and the unreal appears to be real. The individualized consciousness perceives what it thinks it perceives, on account of its conditioning. On account of ignorance, when the notion of egotism arises, at that very moment the delusion of a beginning, a middle and an end also arises. One who is thus deluded thinks that he is an animal and experiences this. All this happens on account of accidental coincidence: just as a crow flies towards a coconut palm and as it alights on the tree, a fruit falls down as if the crow dislodged it - though, in fact, the crow did not! Similarly, by pure coincidence and in ignorance, the unreal seems to be real.
The notions of far and near, a moment and eternity, are all hallucinations: in ignorance the real appears to be unreal, and the unreal appears to be real. The individualized consciousness perceives what it thinks it perceives, on account of its conditioning. On account of ignorance, when the notion of egotism arises, at that very moment the delusion of a beginning, a middle and an end also arises. One who is thus deluded thinks that he is an animal and experiences this. All this happens on account of accidental coincidence: just as a crow flies towards a coconut palm and as it alights on the tree, a fruit falls down as if the crow dislodged it - though, in fact, the crow did not! Similarly, by pure coincidence and in ignorance, the unreal seems to be real.
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