Page 15 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3
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NATURE OF VIVEKA
Not just some of them, all of them. That is the power of Viveka.
Instead of living in Reality, living in imagination and concepts about who we are we find our life easier because we avoid painful disillusionment. What one is most afraid to lose is only what exists in the mind, or we could say ideas about the self. It is unreal. If we look for it we will never find it. In one moment of silence imperienced during meditation, it is gone along with its contrived importance. When we lose all that we imagine us to be, we have truly lost nothing because imagination is unreal to begin with.
Actually living in the mind with all our illusions and conceptualisations is immeasurably harder; it is only the ongoing suffering that is sought to be avoided in moments of entertainment or the achieving of desire. No wonder the number of halls of entertainment and fast food centres are ever increasing. And, people believe this to be all there is, and hence all seeking including spiritual seeking, becomes an attempt to satisfy this desire to avoid.
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