Reality

Modern man lives such an artificial, unnatural life that he has forgotten what he really is. He has lost touch with his own consciousness, existing as nothing more than a lump of flesh and bones. He is content to limit himself to material things. People nowadays have become so materialistic and their consciousness is so degraded, that they are actually amazed when they hear about spiritual things. The idea that the soul exists confuses them. They pooh-pooh such ideas, calling them pie-in-the-sky and mere figments of the imagination. They believe the untrue to be true and consider untrue the living Truth, which is unchanging, eternal and existence itself. There is only one kind of enlightenment, but there are many kinds of ignorance. A totally materialistic person is virtually insentient. There is hardly any awareness left in him. Such a person regards only material things as being real.
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