So what we are reading in the last class was

9th March Friday, 9th March 1883.

We had read that portion last time. Those who have books, have you located it, 9th March 1883.

And Sri Ramakrishna had said that God alone is real, all else is unreal.

But the problem is we are deluded by our worldliness and he has given some examples.

So one example is the camel who keeps on eating thorny shrubs, its mouth bleeds, but it goes back to eat that again.

And another example is of the lady, of the woman who gave birth to a child and suffered terribly in the child birth,

but she forgets that pain.

And the third example he gives is people who have the pineapple fruit in front of them, but they eat the prickly leaves around the fruit

and they forego the fruit.

I don't know who that is, but he's referring to somebody.

There are people who eat the prickly leaves

of the pineapple and not the fruit.

So these are three examples.

And thus they suffer? It might be that the world is unreal and God is real. But then what is the problem? One problem might be that we are not getting the reality, but the real problem is that we are suffering.

If we are stuck with the unreal, if we are stuck with the impermanent,

that which has no true essence, the world, we suffer.

And then we don't know why we suffer.

We look for fulfillment in this world, through relationships, money, through achievement, popularity, health, beauty.

And none of them seem to give us any lasting satisfaction at all.

Either in our pursuit of these things, we are frustrated and we are unhappy, or we get some of it.

What we want in life, we get plenty of it, and we are still unhappy because we are unhappy or we get some of it what if what we want in life we get plenty of it and we are still unhappy because we are not satisfied we are not satiated

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