Page 13 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3

NATURE OF VIVEKA
The evidence that this recognition is not clear is that we tend to identify again and again with some ephemeral form. Ironically this clarity is taken for granted because of course we know events come and go, our whole life proves it. Viveka is easy to know and hard to learn and to earn it is much more difficult.
The reason why Viveka is stressed most by us is though every one knows it the real understanding of this is completely missed. Mind empowers experiences and events with meaning through imagination or conceptualizing. This creates very strong emotion. Then one ends up seeking the "right experiences" by altering themselves, their concepts, imagination, or circumstances and then again identifying with the results. This is an unending foolishness. I repeat myself because people see the coming and going of events conceptually and not actually.
One of countless examples is the way that death is related to only conceptually. That is the reason for the imagination of Heaven and Hell: they
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