In English
In what you may regard as or what you want to see in all those things, it is only an illusion to think that you actually and directly see the reality and truth. Here is a small example for this. A son, whose age is 25 years, has been spending some time and living with his mother who attained the age of sixty years. For 25 years of his life, the son has been looking at his mother, has been addressing her as dear mother and has been enjoying the presence of an affectionate mother. But after sixty years of her age, her time was over. She abandoned her body and life had fled. The son has the body of the mother near him. Sitting next to the body, he was suffering agony and was saying, “Mother, have you gone away,” “Mother, have you left me alone,” “Mother who is going to give me the guidance here-after.” There is something here that we have to look into with great care. He says, “Mother, you have left me and gone away.” Who is it that has left him and gone away? For 25 years he has been addressing that body as “mother” and speaking to her as “mother.” If that body is the mother and if this man is saying, “Mother, you have left me and gone away,” then there is an inconsistency. The body is still there. So what has gone away is his real mother. The body that is still there is not his real mother. Thus the true mother is the life that has left and gone away. So long as the true mother that was the life was residing in that temporary and nonpermanent body, he was calling the body as his mother. But the moment the permanent life has left, he without any hesitation will cremate that body, which was till then being regarded by him as his mother.