The Three realities
प्रतिभासिक सत्ता - The Subjective/ apparent Reality, व्यवहारिक सत्ता - Practical reality and परमार्थिक सत्ता - Supreme reality
In Upanishads (collection of texts of religious and philosophical nature, written in India probably between c. 800 BCE and c. 500 BCE) it's mentioned that there are three realities we exist. After knowing this you might turn your attention to supreme reality and experience all of this realities. Before explaining those to you let me tell you a short story which will help us in knowing these realities.
There was a king Janaka of kingdom Mithila he saw a terrifying dream, that he is a beggar and he is hungry because he hasn't eaten in days and he came near to a city where he asked for food to some people and by looking at his physical appearance people refuse to give him anything except abusive words, after moving ahead he found a person, he asked for food where he received the same behavior as earlier, however, the man suggested him that he should go to that temple where every beggar receives food and should not ask from people of city.
After reaching the temple and standing in the queue for hours when he was about to receive the food the person denied to give him by saying that he can only give food in a dish, not in his bare hands. So, to find the dish, the king went to pottery barn and asked the potter for the dish where the potter asked for the money to which king said that he has not eaten in days and he is dying with hunger he is not having money, the potter denies to give anything so, the king went to temple again and find some dishes of other beggars on backside of the temple. So when he finally receive the food and was finally about to eat he saw two uncontrollable bulls are approaching him and to save his life he dropped the dish and run to the other side. King suddenly wake up terrified and experiencing the hunger he was so confused that what is real, beggar of the dream or king of his kingdom.
Then he went to his teacher Ashtavakra to know which of his existence is real the beggar or the king. To answering his question Ashtavakra speak of these three realities.
Where you see, hear and move without Eyes, Ears and Body
प्रतिभासिक सत्ता - The Subjective/ apparent reality - When the king was dreaming whatever he felt the hunger, the misery, the pain and the reality of he being beggar was his reality, his mind was not sleeping rather creating the reality in his mind which is actually not real but it felt so real that when he woke up he was not able to understand what is what. Is he king or beggar even after waking, so first reality in which we exist is which appear as truth until we are in dream mode, after waking up neither the events nor its reality is the truth. After waking up he realized that he is king, not a beggar so put him at ease. Involvement of your mind alone is the first reality.
Where change is permanent, The existence of duality.
व्यवहारिक सत्ता - Practical reality - The reality in which we do action is the second reality we exist. The distinction between the subject and object where duality exists, when King Janaka realized that he is the king and he does all his duties according to his role. You can say that here newton's third law exist, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction or we can say Karma. Where you do an action and get a result of it. The involvement of mind and body, the subject and object. Mind and body created the ego, You can have an idea in your mind and if it's manifested well enough then you can put it, in reality, you have the experience of that using your sensory organs.
After explaining this two realities, Teacher Ashtavakra said that you still are not awake, because we have senses to experience the world but when we start to misuse it, we never have the experience of third reality, we never realized that we are from the third reality not from the first or second, our mind and body exist in these two realities but we exist in the third.
When the awakening happen you will realize who you are!
परमार्थिक सत्ता - Supreme reality - The person who gets realized and experienced this are the one who is being called enlightened person, this world has the rule of change, in this world change is only thing which is constant and truth, everything you know will change no matter how strong or with how much willpower you try to hold it, even though we try to go against this law and feel misery and loss of things or people. The supreme reality is the one who is beyond the time, space and matter. It never changes, It has no start or end, If you have read my post of eternal consciousness. The realization of self is the supreme reality that you are unchangeable. You are the one who exists in three realities but belongs to only third one.
Lord Buddha, Lord Shiva and in modern time, Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru are the examples of the people who realized that who they are and what is the truth of their existence. We are knowledge, we are love, compassion, simplicity, forgiveness, and sincerity but because of the practical existence, we have practice this to know our true-self due to which every enlightened being told you turn attention towards your true qualities so, we have the experience of third reality where no duality exists. Where there is not you and I, there is only We. We are consciousness alone, immortals, space, time and matter do not exist for us.
Please understand, that there is reason if you are getting knowledge of something like this, now maybe you will not be able to know but surely you will know it one day. Then you will never be the same. I want all the people of the world to be guided, Please feel free to comment and write. Your feedback and comments will help me to write more.
There was a king Janaka of kingdom Mithila he saw a terrifying dream, that he is a beggar and he is hungry because he hasn't eaten in days and he came near to a city where he asked for food to some people and by looking at his physical appearance people refuse to give him anything except abusive words, after moving ahead he found a person, he asked for food where he received the same behavior as earlier, however, the man suggested him that he should go to that temple where every beggar receives food and should not ask from people of city.
After reaching the temple and standing in the queue for hours when he was about to receive the food the person denied to give him by saying that he can only give food in a dish, not in his bare hands. So, to find the dish, the king went to pottery barn and asked the potter for the dish where the potter asked for the money to which king said that he has not eaten in days and he is dying with hunger he is not having money, the potter denies to give anything so, the king went to temple again and find some dishes of other beggars on backside of the temple. So when he finally receive the food and was finally about to eat he saw two uncontrollable bulls are approaching him and to save his life he dropped the dish and run to the other side. King suddenly wake up terrified and experiencing the hunger he was so confused that what is real, beggar of the dream or king of his kingdom.
Then he went to his teacher Ashtavakra to know which of his existence is real the beggar or the king. To answering his question Ashtavakra speak of these three realities.
| Where you see, hear and move without Eyes, Ears and Body |
| Where change is permanent, The existence of duality. |
After explaining this two realities, Teacher Ashtavakra said that you still are not awake, because we have senses to experience the world but when we start to misuse it, we never have the experience of third reality, we never realized that we are from the third reality not from the first or second, our mind and body exist in these two realities but we exist in the third.
| When the awakening happen you will realize who you are! |
Lord Buddha, Lord Shiva and in modern time, Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru are the examples of the people who realized that who they are and what is the truth of their existence. We are knowledge, we are love, compassion, simplicity, forgiveness, and sincerity but because of the practical existence, we have practice this to know our true-self due to which every enlightened being told you turn attention towards your true qualities so, we have the experience of third reality where no duality exists. Where there is not you and I, there is only We. We are consciousness alone, immortals, space, time and matter do not exist for us.
Please understand, that there is reason if you are getting knowledge of something like this, now maybe you will not be able to know but surely you will know it one day. Then you will never be the same. I want all the people of the world to be guided, Please feel free to comment and write. Your feedback and comments will help me to write more.
