What is Reality? Tantra Answers
Really? “Objects in the external world are perceived as images in my brain. Then my brain processes the information connected to that object and interprets the object. This is the way imagination works. Therefore, by extension, all Reality is nothing more than my Imagination!” This is how I interpreted reality when I was about 17 years old. No big deal, because Tantra says that an open mind will “see” universal truths more easily than someone who is bogged down by education, culture, and tradition. And this way of looking at Reality is so obvious that I don’t understand why it is not commonplace. Let’s see how Tantra looks at Reality! In any analysis of Reality, there is the Observer (Subject), the Observed (the Object) and the Act of Perception. The Act of Perception is nothing but consciousness doing its bit. In this act, consciousness posits itself in the different entities (Subject and Object) that constitute Reality. It also expands and contracts as required to study t...