Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 16 - Unreal vs Real

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Healthy Mind is secret of Life - Swami Shantanandaji of Chinmaya Mission



A deeper definition of Unreal would be that: 
It's something that did not exist in the past and will not exist in the future.  It may exist now.  It's always time bound.  Every material objects around us has a self-life.  

Let's take the example of the Car from above.  I own a Car, it's a 2025 model.  This means the Car did not exist prior to it's manufacture.  I may drive this Car for 10 years or 15 years but eventually the Car will stop working and I have to get a new Car.  Or if the Car is damaged beyond repair in an accident, it may have to be sent to Junk yard and eventually recycled.  Therefore, the Car I have now is temporary. This concept can be applied to anything around me including relationships with other humans.  

My own body had a beginning, exist now, and will end one day at my death.  Hence, it's Unreal.  

What is Real then? 

For every dynamic object there has to be something that it holds on to, else it will not be able to do it's job.
  • A flag must be tied to it's pole in order to flutter with the breeze.  The pole is steady
  • A bungee jumper must be tied to the bungee cord and the pole in order to experience it.  The pole is unmoving
  • To make soup, one needs a pot to cook it with.  The pot is unchanging.  I can boil potatoes in the same pot later
  • For the Ocean to exist, there must be the Ocean floor that is unmoving
What or who holds us together?
Gurudev Swami Chinmayanda:
In order to hold together millions of experiences at our Body, Mind, and Intellect level, there got to be something that holds it all together.  Something in us remains as it were, unchanged all through our changes, holding the vivid experiences together, just as a thread holds the beads in a necklace.  It is nothing but the SELF in us.  It is the pure awareness.  

This awareness or the SELF becomes the flag pole, the pot, the bungee cord, and the Ocean floor.


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