What is Reality?

The first problem is that reality is big and as big as the universe. Whereas each one of us who discuss reality is just a 3 pound brain. Do we match? Can we manage to do it? Can we comprehend the incomprehensible?
These questions were asked by countless wise men from all civilizations for centuries.

 The most ancient of civilization which is undoubtedly that of the Indian civilization has dealt elaborately with the subject under a different topic – spirituality.

 Today the modern man of the 21st century is asking the same question under the topic – science.

However, the irony is that both seem to have no definite and acceptable view of what reality really is.The modern day scientists seem to be baffled trying to grasp reality.
Can reality really be defined?

Is anything really real?

 

For example if we carefully examine our experiences of the past in terms of buildings and people we doubt if they really existed once upon a time even though we have actually seen it. These buildings have disappeared and new ones have taken up their place. Grandfather is no more. Did he really exist? Yes of course, the photos prove it. But where is Grandfather now? Has he gone to heaven or hell or is he reborn somewhere? Or was he just a temporary thing?

When you were young you felt so healthy despite doing all things that were known to upset health. But when you are old and follow everything that you doctor says you find it difficult to get back to health. Is the advise of doctors really of any use? Is science useless? Of what use is science when it cannot give what nature once gave us for free?

A person was once poor and did not have enough money to buy a meal. Today the same person is filthy rich and throws food around. Is the world of money real? Does money really matter. Jesus Christ said that the rich can never get though the gates of heaven. The Buddha gave up the riches and found peace. The rich looks elsewhere for peace and happiness whereas the poor sees money as the ultimate remedy for their suffering.

Science and its approach`

 

First they told me and proved by experiments that light travels in a straight line. Then told me it is a wave. Finally they told me that it is not these. It is more complicated.

Science first told us that there is no GOD and now they say that GOD is a great possibility. They told us that matter can neither be created nor be destroyed and then speak about how the universe was created by a big bang disproving that matter cannot be created.

Your opinion about something changes fast, but every time, that opinion was the reality at that point in time.

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"