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I had these type of philosophical questions 3 years ago, but I am just curious and for some reason, I am still thinking about these questions. People often say we are living in Maya an Illusion, while in Sikhism we do believe in this Maya, but we don't actually believe that the Universe is fake, but created in God, but the only truth is in Whaeguru; however, there are Maya that trap us from reaching Whaeguru such as greed, lust, ego, etc, but I was wondering what does Sikhism view reality as?

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3 hours ago, CanadianSingh said:

I had these type of philosophical questions 3 years ago, but I am just curious and for some reason, I am still thinking about these questions. People often say we are living in Maya an Illusion, while in Sikhism we do believe in this Maya, but we don't actually believe that the Universe is fake, but created in God, but the only truth is in Whaeguru; however, there are Maya that trap us from reaching Whaeguru such as greed, lust, ego, etc, but I was wondering what does Sikhism view reality as?

I'm not sure, but real or not, you only see it in your mind. If there is an external world, we never really see it, what we perceive is in our consciousness.

Where does all consciousness come from?

When we think we are a body, seperate from the whole, it appears that way. Attaching to things we think we need. If the ego is the sense of separation, it seems that is what keeps us from seeing it from a place of unification. Seeing it all as Akal Puarkh's consciousness. 

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