Those who say the world is mithya they are also right, those who say the world
is Sathya they are all right. You will say how come? Is he sitting on the fence, is
he compromising?
First consider the external world around us and then we shall move inwards.
Regarding this world many people say it is mithya you must have heard this word
in the lectures of Gyanis "Brahma satyam jagan mithya jivo brahmaiva na aparah"
what is mithya? Mithya means non existent, like the horns of a rabbit. Have
you ever seen them, why not?! they don't exist that's why you've never
seen them. Like a flower blossoming from the air, have you ever found one of
course not why not, it doesn't exist. Similarly some people contend that this
world does not exist it is a creation of our mind this "Mana Kalpana vad" also
exists in Western philosophy. The idealism there is subjective idealism
and objective idealism starting from Plato's concepts of the world and in
the medieval times later on Berkeley was considered the father of idealism. Fichte
Hiegel etc also supported his theories to some extent that this world is a
creation of the mind and in our Indian philosophy Jagadguru Shankar Acharya in
his proposition of adwait wad non-dualism he said "Brahma satyam jagan
mithya" the world is non-existent because if it exists then there are two entities
there is no adwait, there is Brahman and there is the world but then the Vaishnavacharyas
took another stand. The Vaishnavacharya said the world is temporary, asath
but not mithya non-existent they gave their logic they said if the
world is non-existent this microphone. Is it a creation of our mind if it is
then how come everybody has created a same microphone sm58 somebody should
have created a Sennheiser microphone somebody should have created a flower
somebody should have created a towel. If this world is a mental creation then
everybody should have created a different world and the world is so fine
and subtle from the higgs-boson god particle up to the biggest galaxies if
our mind has created it then the mind has done an amazing feat and if the mind
has made this world the mind should be able to destroy the world as well but no
matter how much you try the world will remain the microphone will remain it is
not a creation of the mind. So Jagadguru Ramanuja Acharya in
vishishtadvaita said the world is Sathya Jagadguru Nimbarkacharya in Dvaitādvaita‎ wad
dual non-dualism he said the world is Sathya. Jagadguru
Madhvacharya in Dvaitvad, dualistic theory he said the world is Sahtya
Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya in Vishuddadvaita vad said the world is Sathya
and Mahaprabhu Chaitanya in achintya bheda abheda vad simultaneous and
inconceivable oneness and duality he explained that the world is Sathya. So
these six authorities in the Vedic philosophy one said it is mithya
and five said it is Sathya. Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj who was honored
as the fifth original jagadguru after Madhvacharya after a gap of seven
hundred years he reconciled these two, he said you know both are right. Those who
say the world is mithya they are also right those who say the world is Sathya
they are also right. You would say how come? Is he sitting on the fence, is he
compromising? No he is reconciling and synthesizing he explains that there are
two worlds one is the external world one is the internal world the external
world made of the five elements earth, water, fire, air, sky this is the external
world this is Sathya it's created by God and
then there is another world that is inside us the world of our own mind
our thoughts, ideas, attachments, hatreds, desires, diversions this is the inner
world. You may say Swamiji is there a world within us there is the external
world is very small in comparison this inner world is bigger than the Pacific
Ocean. See at night when you sleep you see dreams of course in the dream do you
see the outer world of course not your eyes are closed they are under the
comforter how can you see the outside world but
even in the dream state you are seeing you're running you're walking
sometimes you're going all the way from here to India or even flying in the air
how is all that happening that is the world within your own mind so there is a
world inside us that is very astonishing and that inner world is not made by God
it is made by us everybody's inner world is different. You see let us say that you
got your new Cadillac and came home with. The Cadillac is the external object
now you create a feeling of joy what an amazing feat I have done and your
neighbour looks at the Cadillac the same Cadillac that is giving you joy is
giving him misery. This guy badmash ke pass black ka paisa hoga that is how he has
got this Cadillac. The feeling of happiness and misery is
different for everyone that is their own inner creation that is the inner world
the external world is not created by the mind it is created by God the inner
world is created by ourselves the external world is Sathya it is existent
because God is Sathya whatever God creates is Sathya. Why
should God create something mithya false the inner world is mithya it is created
by the mind the mind doesn't have the capacity to create external realities, it is
only making its own ideas. So those who say the world is mithya you're very
correct the inner world is, those who say the world is Sathya very correct the
outer world is, but those who say the outer world is mithya incorrect!