It's all about existence, that seems to be real, but not so in reality. Do I, as a mortal, really exist? This question may seem, at the outset absurd, a silly question. But the wise ones, jnyanis, ask us to think. They say, 'Self inquiry', Atma Chintan, is necessary for everyone. Having born in human form with capacity to think, self inquiry, is necessary. In fact, this self inquiry will lead to 'Realization of the Self, (Atma sakshatkara). The goal of life is said to be ' Self Realization'. This is said to be 'mukti', 'moksha'. When a person realizes the transitional, transcendental, or an ever-changing nature of this world, it becomes clear how everything here is subject to change with time. Time rules the roost. Time erases, devours, eats everything! 'Kaalo'smi', "I Am kaal", says the Lord. He asserts 'I create, sustain, and devour everything'! Thus, whatever is subject to change, not permanent, and whatever is limited and bound by Time is illusory, not real. Whatever is transitional, transient, subject to uncertainties, is unreal. It may be a just imagination, a fiction, of momentary importnce. Hence its is untruth (asat). In this sense of argumnt, everything on this earth, including the living beings are just a passing show, a leela of the Lord! Giving too much importance to either words of promise or even relations that appear thick and fast, may not last long. The so called blood relations are not realtions unless they relate to each other! We often rejoice that we have become some one, say a maternal or paternal uncle when child is born to ones sister or brother, even though living thousands of miles/KM away!
Thus, any over-indulgences, emotional attachments may lead to disappointments, unhappiness and misery.
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