Real existence
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 3
SB Canto 5
SB Canto 6
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Prabhupāda: Yes, and it has no actual value, but when it is happening and I am under dream, I am thinking it is all actual. Actually it has no value. Therefore it is called māyā. Māyā means which has no real existence, but it appears.
Śyāmasundara: Last night you said that what is the meaning of the word "nothing." That māyā means "nothing"?
Prabhupāda: You can say like that. Nothing is appearing like something. But we don't say nothing. The Māyāvādī philosophers, they say nothing. We say temporary, just like cloud, you cannot say it is nothing.Prabhupāda: Yes. Objective reality. When I dream of a woman or a tiger, there is objective reality. In dream it may be. There may be no existence of woman or tiger, but there is real existence of tiger, my dreaming. The impression of a tiger in my mind, the impression of a woman in my mind is created as hallucination, and that reacts on my physical life.
Śyāmasundara: He says that even these mental objects have a real existence in my consciousness. As long as I'm thinking there's a tiger about to pounce on me...
Prabhupāda: Yes.Page Title: | Real existence |
Compiler: | Rati, Haya |
Created: | 22 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=5, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=6, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 12 |