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Is the world before our eyes real?

 ๐™„๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ก๐™™ ๐™—๐™š๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™š๐™ฎ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก?  While walking at the Sukhna lake, my friend asked out of the blue, "Sanjay, Is Sukhna lake real or fake?" Astonished by his inquisitiveness, I responded, "What's your opinion?"  "Of course this lake is real! But I want your view?" he said.  "The lake's water is evaporating, changing it's form incessantly - becoming vapours. How can anything that is ever in a state of flux be real? Not only things, according to His Holiness Adi Shankaracharya ji, the entire world is only an illusion (เคฎाเคฏा)" I said playfully.  "You mean that all the beings including my wife, my children, my job are also unreal?" he asked sarcastically.  "Well, has your wife, your children, your job ever crossed your mind whenever you are in deep sleep?" I asked.  "No. But what all this conveys? Kindly elucidate." he asked curiously.   "You see, at any given point of time o