The Deep Meaning of the Falsity of the World

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If the world is false, there must be a truth. What is that truth? You can't just have falsity. If somebody tells a lie, eh, that's false. That means ther's the true. Brahman is the truth. The reality is here, where you see the snake. There you see the rope, where you are seeing world and people and body and mind. There, the enlightened one is seeing brahman, god, divinity, existence, consciousness, bliss. Iam using the word god in a very general sense, in a very philosophical sense. So this is the deep meaning of the falsity of the world.

Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on June 5th, 2022. List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:32 - How is it that the self is in all beings from the chit (consciousness) perspective? 18:37 - Where is my consciousness when I am sleeping? Can I use sleep as a spiritual practice? 26:55 - Will a realized person retain their individuality after enlightenment? 40:38 - Why do we call this world false? 55:53 - What does Sri Ramakrishna mean by going into the black water (in reference to samadhi)? 01:00:30 - If we want to take up a life of renunciation, what practices should be followed?