Take Only The Unchanging As The Real
Only the unchanging can be real - in a world of perpetual change, awareness itself is the constant truth.
Our seriousness now must be only for that which is real. But for that first we must be able to say what is real. Should the unreal deserve our seriousness? tiow do we get serious about the real? And what is the real, what do we mean by real? Take your Self as an example, all of you, and see whether this is true for you firstly. Are you taking seriously only that which is real? Or are we giving the un-real a degree of seriousness? Which means an idea of it being real… undeservedly. [Silence] So, what should we take to be real or serious? At which layer of your existence is reality? What is the definition first of the reality? Should we use the Vedantic one – Nitya (Unchanging) - Anitya (Changing) Viveka (Discernment between the changing and the un-changing) Which means to take only that which is only the unchanging as the real…to take that which is only unchanging as the real and to not take the changing as ‘reality.’ That is the recommended definition. So what are we taking it to be real or serious?
Key Teachings
- Only that which remains unchanging throughout all circumstances can be considered truly real
- The world of forms and appearances is in constant flux and cannot be the ultimate truth
- The unchanging reality is awareness itself - the Self or I Am that is always present
From: Our Running after the Truth Is Just an Avoidance of It - 19th September 2019