Question: Acharya Ji, Pranaam! I came to know you through your videos on YouTube. I am very grateful that I came to know about the Ribhu Gita from your session organised on Mahashivratri day.
Since then I have read the full document more than five times, and it is difficult to accept that everything is just illusion. I read about Sadhana (Spiritual discipline) affirming that – ‘I am Brahma’. Is this the only Sadhana to come to the Realisation of the Self?
Acharya Prashant Ji: Kartik (the questioner), please appreciate what is meant by saying, “Everything is illusory.”
When you look at a tree in the night and confuse it to be a man, that’s an illusion. Right? Does that mean that the tree does not exist? When it is said, “The world is an illusion,” it means you are so heavily conditioned that you are looking at things as they are not. It does not mean that the world does not exist.
I will insist that the world exists. And I will insist on it because I know that I am speaking to persons, that I know I am speaking to bodily ears. I know that I am responding to voices that are emanating from human throats.
As long as the material body is there, the material universe too exists. It is quiet preposterous to claim as a body that the embodied universe is merely an illusion.
