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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