Knowledge is power, Share. It's like the analogy of the snake in the garden. At night we see what appears to be a snake in the garden; in the daylight we see that it was only a coiled up rope. The "snake" was real because it was presented to our consciousness, but in reality it wasn't a real snake at all. The snake was not real, yet not unreal - it was just an illusion due to our ignorance and the perception of the senses.
"Pure consciousness is the only Reality. By its nature, it is Self-luminous." (XIII, 13). "Thus shaking off duality, he directly perceives the Absolute which is the unity underlying phenomena (dharmadatu)." (VI, 7) Sharma, p. 112-113 Share: So salyavin, thinking of the atom which has always been real and measurable except that we didn't have the instruments to do so, is it possible that there exists right now, something else which is real and measurable but for which we don't yet have the instruments for measuring?
