Every one of us who are in this material world, we are all under the full control of this illusory energy and working differently according to the influence of the different modes of material nature.
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Aug 20, 2010]The Delusion Pandemic
Americans do not have the exclusive rights over delusion
Zero Hedge Aug 15, 2010
- JIM QUINN
Mass Delusion - American Style
The American public thinks they are rugged individualists, who come to conclusions based upon sound reason and a rational thought process. The truth is that the vast majority of Americans act like a herd of cattle or a horde of lemmings. Throughout history there have been many instances of mass delusion. They include the South Sea Company bubble, Mississippi Company bubble, Dutch Tulip bubble, and Salem witch trials. It appears that mass delusion has replaced baseball as the national past-time in America. In the space of the last 15 years the American public have fallen for the three whopper delusions:
1. Buy stocks for the long run
2. Homes are always a great investment
3. Globalization will benefit all Americans go to story
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Mistakenly accepting the material body as one's self, the conditioned soul is busy from morning till night searching for food, shelter, protection and sex, and in the struggle to obtain all these bodily necessities he develops love, friendship and society (social position) with similarly bewildered conditioned souls like himself. These three relationships are the platform from which he shows off his acquired material WEALTH, WOMAN and PRESTIGE. In this way the material existence is just like the atmosphere of a mental institution in which every inmate imagines himself to be someone or something he is not. Thus he is a madman. more
A life mistakenly based on the bodily concept
lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.26, Bombay, January 3, 1975
So this false ego – "I am this material body, I belong to this material world, I belong to this community, sect, or nation," so many – they are all based on ahankara. Ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate [Bhagavad-gita 3.27: "The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature."]. Actually, every one of us who are in this material world, we are all under the full control of this illusory energy and working differently according to the influence of the different modes of material nature. I am not real karta [doer]. Prakriteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani [Bg. 3.27]. Gunaih karmani. I am under the influence of different gunas, and still, falsely, I am thinking that "I am the doer. I have got the capacity of acting. And the effect, whatever I have produced, it is due to my labor." This is called illusion, moha. Mohah ayam aham mameti [Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.8: "The attraction between male and female is the basic principle of material existence. On the basis of this misconception, which ties together the hearts of the male and female, one becomes attracted to his body, home, property, children, relatives and wealth. In this way one increases life’s illusions and thinks in terms of 'I and mine.'"]. This conception of life is moha. Moha, delusion or illusion, just like a person in feverish convulsion is lying unconscious, thinking something else. This is our position. Moho 'yam. So our real business is how to get out of this moha.
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