1719: A Reflected Rose Has No Aroma — Why the Bhagavad-gītā Calls This World a Reflection
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A Bhagavad-gītā-level reality check: the world we experience isn't "illusion" in the lazy, dismissive sense—it's illusion like a reflection. Consistent. Coherent. Convincing. And still untouchable. Like an upside-down tree mirrored in water, it looks real enough to reach for… but you can't taste its fruit. A reflected rose has no aroma. And a reflected life, no matter how intensely we chase it, can't deliver the ananda we're actually built for. But the reflection does point to a reality worth pursuing.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, here's the thing. |
| 0:01.4 | A lot of times when we speak about Eastern philosophy, it speaks about this world as being an illusion. |
| 0:08.4 | Yes. |
| 0:08.7 | But what the hell does that mean? |
| 0:11.1 | Does it mean that I find it way to Vedanta does not give satisfying answers to this? |
| 0:17.0 | Eventually, they say it's all illusion. |
| 0:18.8 | It has to be all illusion. |
| 0:20.3 | And then they say, well, it's not exactly illusion it is but it's not words can't |
| 0:26.2 | describe it okay so you cannot articulate whereas bugovicita is saying the world is an illusion |
| 0:32.2 | like a reflection is an illusion which is a very great way to look to it because there is |
| 0:36.3 | some reality it's just not what it appears to be. It's a reflection of the reality. And the glass is real. I like that. The glass is real. You can't say that the reflection is unreal. The glass is real, the light on the surface of the glass. It appears to be. It appears to be something else. I can't eat the fruit on that apple tree. You won't. |
| 0:54.5 | There's no fragrance. |
| 0:55.3 | There's no fragrance to the rose. |
| 0:57.3 | No. |
| 0:57.8 | There's no kernels on the corn. It's not there. It's not there. It's not there. And so it's near an under. My whole life is like here. I'm trying to enjoy. Yeah. in so many different ways with my senses, |
| 1:09.8 | and there's a limit to what I can even enjoy. |
| 1:13.1 | There's a low to what I can even enjoy |
| 1:13.0 | there's a low ceiling to my enjoyment |
| 1:14.8 | I feel like |
| 1:16.3 | because I am a spirit soul |
| 1:18.5 | and therefore I want unlimited Ananda |
| 1:21.1 | I want unlimited bliss |
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