--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > As a term, samsara has become associated with the idea that the relative > existence that we live in and perceive each day is an illusion. *As* an > illusion, say those who coined the term, it is not worth pursuing or > paying that much attention to. > > I suggest humbly to people who believe this that they are fuckin' crazy.
Maharishi describes it as *Mithya* or a seeming. Since in Indian Philosophy Brahman is the only *reality* all else is an illusion (Lila shakti, or the play of Shakti). However!, when you're *caught* in the illusion it seems real, and all the more reason to extricate yourself from it (the wheel of birth and death or Samsara). Charlie called it the *waking dream*.
