How can we obtain the real from the unreal?

我們如何從虛相中得到實相呢?

Once when I (Karshiji) was thinking on this question, I thought I had hit upon a paradox. If everything is unreal, how can it lead us out of the unreal? I asked myself if this world appearance is unreal – as the yoga vashista and other advaitic texts proclaim, then all our sadhana is also unreal. So what is the point of doing sadhana. for eg. in a dream, all that i experience is unreal, how can any action that i do in a dream lead me to wake up. For only when i wake up do i realize it was a dream!

I decided that this was a question fit to be asked of Guruji. And one day I got my chance. It so happened that I was in a car with Guruji and the drive was a long one In a period of silence, I shyly popped this question to HIM.

“Guruji, how can my actions in my dream take me out of it? if they cant, then what is the point of doing sadhana to get liberation from this world existence?”

Guruji smiled and liberated me from the question very simply!

“In the dream, when a lion roars, you wake up!”

有一回，我 (卡旭吉)在思考這個問題，以為已經想到了一個似是而非的悖論。如果一切是虛幻的，怎麼能帶領我們走出虛幻的？我自問，如果這個世界的面貌是不真實的,那麼我做的瑜伽修練,靜坐.研習吠沱經典..等等所歷經的也都是虛幻的囉!那為何還要做靈修練習呢?如此等等呢?在夢中，一切的經驗是虛幻的，在夢中我做的任何行動又如何使我醒來呢?因為只有當我醒來時，我才意識到這一切都是夢境！

這個問題我決定在適當的時候,要問古儒吉。有一天，有了機會。很湊巧，我與古儒吉一起搭車,而且保持了相當漫長的沉默，我羞澀地對他提出這個問題。

“古儒吉，在夢境中我能如何行動,帶我離開夢境呢？如果做不到，那麼能做點什麼修練,從這存在的世界得到解放？“

古儒吉微微一笑，很輕鬆簡單地解開了我的問題！

“在夢中，當獅子怒吼，你就會醒來！“

 

原文引自

http://www.kashikar.net/2010/02/how-can-we-obtain-the-real-from-the-unreal/

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