SOURCE : AGHORA – Advaita Tantra – tribe.net
Shankaracharya always used to preach that this world is an illusion and that everything is illusion except for the absolute Divine reality. One day a water buffalo went wild and started chasing him, the sadhus sitting on the river bank laughed and said “Shankaracharyaji why are you running if that water buffalo is an illusion?” The point is that we live in a practical reality and have to deal with it, this world is not an illusion it is just an ever changing reality, a transient one, where as the divine reality is an absolute one, but this reality is still real, it is just an ever changing one, things are definitely not always as they seem, so in that way it is like an illusion, but his philosophy is defective on that point and I don’t like to see people treating there bodies or the earth like crap while preaching that this world is only an illusion.
