Are You Real ?

A short movie set across three 'worlds', namely Planeshift, Reallife in Calcutta, and Second Life that explores the boundaries of real and the illusory. Based on Sankara's philosophy of Advaita Vedanta and the concept of Maya.

to know more about my interpretation read
http://psingularity.yantrajaal.com or better still buy the paperback "The Road to pSingularity" at http://bookshop.yantrajaal.com

For more on the immense potential of movies in the virtual world, read : http://the-imagineer.blogspot.com/2007/06/machinima-making-movies-in-virtual....

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• SecondLife
• Maya
• Advaita
• Vedanta

[egodust11]

according to sankara, maya is NOT simply illusion! this is the most misunderstood concept in all of the sanatana dharma (hinduism). he described it as real and yet unreal, [it is] is anirvachaniya (indescribable).

[prithwis]

thank you for sharing point of view ... but with all due respect, i would beg to differ on a couple of points. maya may be misunderstood. that is fine, but it certainly not real. is illusion the opposite of real ? perhaps, but perhaps we are getting stuck in the semantics of the language,real versus unreal-these are so many words after all.

[prithwis]

secondly, calling it indescribable is "intellectual laziness". if it be so, we cannot talk about, write about it or even make movies about it .. no communication is possible .. so it is should not be on the web !!

i am sorry, i cannot agree with this approach, DESPITE who has said what in antiquity !! including sankar himself :-)

[praseeta]

I believe this is complete misconception caused due to translation of 'maya' into english. Illusion is wrong meaning. When you reach the 'state of meditation' you see in yourself the real 'being' the 'Self' that functions as life in you and also you know that you are just a thought - a false superimposition on it. You have to get to that state to know it.

[prithwis]

This is not an attempt to explain the Principles of Vedanta. That is impossible in a nano-movie of this small size.

Modern science has difficulty in accepting that the world is an illusion, as is claimed in Vedanta. This movie tries to show that compelling illusions are possible with existing technology and what Vedanta says about the illusory nature of the world is not all that far fetched at all.

[po3a8]

The concept of "self" is like if my liver or one of my kidney's decided it was an individual one day. Of course, then people would go no it's not an individual. We are are just parts of a vibrational whole that happened to develop cognitive thinking.

[jameslikebond]

interesting:))

[beeveee]

Tracing the life of Shankar back to the Padma Purana we find that Shiva was ordered to spread an illusory philosophy [mayavada] on the order of Vishnu just to bewilder the foolish materialists. At first Shiva refused but later acquiesced, he being the destroyer of all. Thus Shankar styled his philosophy on Buddhism, and just changed names from 'Sunya' to 'Brahman'. It is more dangerous than Buddhism since he pretends to accept the Vedas. Yet his theory is completely non-Vedic [asat shastram].

[gujjucheap]

it is

[11moonelf]

This is great!

[nameofthepen]

I give 4 stars. Therefore I am real.

[po3a8]

*kidneys

[TheToltec]

I believe we are real because we are here now. Second Life is only real to us if our perception of it validates is as so. But it is our perception, our reality and not necessarily so. Second Life makes up its reality as it goes along and we do the same in our reality. We make it up constantly.

[DreamerKay]

All I have to say to this is, "Lol it's PlaneShift"

Good day. :P

[Eayne]

ha! that wont work on me i know im not real!