Kinfonet Quote of the Day: Our present search for reality is nothing but the search for a greater and more magnificent illusion.

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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | 4th Public Talk 10th May, 1935

Suppose that you have lost someone by death. You suffer and you begin to ask about the hereafter, whether it is a fact or not. Then you begin to investigate the theory of reincarnation. What is it that you are really doing? You are trying to get away from suffering. So explanations and so-called facts merely act as drugs to dull the acuteness of suffering. Where there is the desire to escape there must be the creation of illusion. As we do suffer constantly, we have created innumerable illusions, and our present search for reality is nothing but the search for a greater and more magnificent illusion.

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