The Veil of Ignorance
It is ignorance which reminds you, which makes you feel something is "inside" and "outside", something is "far off" and "near". It is like, in the Ganga, say a bamboo stick is floating. Because the bamboo is there, you can say "Right side Ganga" and "Left side Ganga". Did Ganga ever get divided? No. If you just remove that bamboo stick, did Ganga get united? No. Neither division nor uniting happened in reality.
- Ganga is "divided" is Perception.
- "Right Side Ganga", "Left Side Ganga" is Fact.
- 'No, it is not divided' is Truth.
- 'It was never divided or united' is Reality.
A single bamboo stick can give you Perception, Fact, Truth, which does not exist. You can go on be arguing but it is nowhere close to reality.
Thought Exercise
Any powerlessness we have is similar to the bamboo stick on the Ganga. Think through how when the cognition moves from perception, to fact, truth and reality what the bamboo stick does to Ganga alters (described above), how when the cognition regarding powerlessness alters, what that does to our Being.
Be established on realization of Reality.
Based on satsangs delivered by rare Living Incarnation THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
<sup>1</sup> The fifth verse of Ishavasya Upanishad