Passage 5

In English

In what you have been hearing, the philosophy of nondualism or is one of the most important things. stated that is Truth and that the world is a . If we take this statement consisting of two halves and try to prove that what you see in the world is all unreal, you will be wasting your time. On the other hand, we should also take the statement that the entire world is covered or is contained by . If we put these two statements together, then the enquiry will proceed on proper lines. But these two statements look as if they are contradicting each other. On the one side, we say that the entire world is only a manifestation of the Lord. You should note here that when said , he did not say that the world is or untrue. He used a special word . So we have to know the meaning of the word . The word should be explained by saying that it means neither “true” nor “untrue”. It is something between truth and untruth. It is really true-untrue, . What we are seeing around us, with our own eyes, gives us the impression that they are all true. But what we think is true, in the next moment vanishes and we don’t see it, and when we don’t see it, the same thing that we thought was true, we now think is untrue. What was not seen some time ago comes back. Then what we thought was untrue appears to us as true. Thus you see that some of it appears as true and when that disappears, the same thing appears as untrue. Therefore, we have to describe this world neither as true nor as untrue but both as true and untrue. The appropriate Sanskrit word is sadasath.