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Imagination

Student: I want to excel in my life. Over the years, my graph of success is achieving a new height. I am doing hard work to become one of the smartest and richest persons on the Earth.

Teacher: Wonderful! Who is  achiever and what is achieved?

Student: I am the achiever. My name and fame are shining day by day. 

Teacher: Who is this ‘I’? What is the material by which it is produced?

Student: I is the ego which is the agent achieving successes and facing failures.

Teacher: Whether ego is real or imaginary?

Student: It is made of name, form, and function.

Teacher: Whether name, form, and function are eternal? 

Student: No, they are changing.

Teacher: Anything changes does it exist? Whether these are real or merely fictitious images appearing and disappearing before the sightscreen of mind?

Student: They are the images constructing my identity as a person.

Teacher: Well said! What is the stuff by which these images are made of? Who is maker and what is made?

Student: They are the progenies of imagination (kalpana). They appear through desires. 

Teacher: What is the function of imagination?

Student: It projects the desiring mind on the world. It creates, beautifies, destroys the world. It is that Prajapati which is the creator, nurturer, and the destroyer of our world.

Teacher: Whether the world is separate from the imagination?

Student: No, the world and imagination are the two facets of the same reality. Imagination is the world (Samsara). 

Teacher: Who is the sufferer in this world?

Student: Imagination!

Teacher: Who is the achiever in this world?

Student: Imagination!

Teacher: What, then, one can achieve?

Student: Only Imagination!

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