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आइ.आइ.टी खड़गपुर (IIT- Kharagpur), पूरा संवाद || आचार्य प्रशांत (2020)
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Jagat Mithya Brahma Satya
Vedanta
Action (Karma)
Ego
Unreality (Mithya)
Truth (Satya)
Completeness (Purnata)
Right Action
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why one should worry about right and wrong actions if Vedanta states the world (Jagat) is unreal (Mithya). He explains that this statement is always paired with "Brahma Satya" (Brahman is the only Truth). If Brahman is the sole truth, then nothing else, including the person stating "Jagat Mithya," can be true. Brahman has no concern for speaking or hearing. Therefore, the one who says "Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithya" is also unreal. The right to say "Jagat Mithya" is only for the one who also knows themselves to be unreal and that only Brahman is Truth. For the questioner, the world is not yet unreal, as demonstrated by the very act of asking a question they deem real. As long as the world has not become unreal for you, there is undoubtedly a distinction between appropriate and inappropriate action. You should worry about choosing the right action precisely because the world has not yet become unreal for you. The world becomes unreal only when the ego becomes unreal. Until then, it is necessary to ask the right questions, receive the right answers, and implement them. Right action is that which leads you towards completeness and erases your current state of suffering. He warns against the pretense of calling the world unreal while considering one's own body, thoughts, and family as real. This is a sign of incompleteness. To say "I am" is to affirm the ego, which is the source of suffering. Eliminating suffering means eliminating the ego, and only then does the world become unreal. When you become complete, then you can say the world is unreal.