REALITY expresses EXISTENCE, which in turn, brings the appearance of 'Individual'. All concepts, such as, subject-object, spirit-matter, eternal-temporal, vidya-avidya, and emotions, such as, pleasure-pain and attraction-repulsion, arise in the 'Individual'. EXISTENCE does not entertain concepts or emotions.
When we analyse the 'individual', we shall find that he has two aspects:(i)'EXISTENCE' and (ii) 'anthakaranam' (mind, intellect and ego). They are otherwise known as 'Life' and 'Living' respectively. Concepts and emotions are entertained by the 'Living', and not by 'Life'. The mind/intellect brings in the concepts of subject-object, vidya-avidya etc., and the ego part of the anthakaranam, brings in a sense of 'individuality' which causes pleasure, pain, fear, anger, attraction, repulsion and such other emotions. The concepts and emotions, thus, come from (i) mind/intellect and (ii) ego.
Without "Life" there is no "living". The ignorant considers the 'living' as the only Reality; the book-learned man confuses himself with 'life' and 'living'; the man of wisdom constantly remembers that 'life' is the only 'Reality' and 'living' is only an 'appearance' superimposed on 'life'. The analogies of 'ocean and waves', 'dancer and dance' and 'actor and acting' may be useful to understand the respective positions of 'life' and living'. It is the 'living' that brings in the emotional dualities of pleasure-pain etc., and entertains divisions such as subject-object etc.
'REALITY' expresses 'Life' similar to 'LIGHT' expressing 'day-light', 'Water' expressing 'Ocean', 'Person' expressing 'dancer' or 'actor'. The 'actor'even while enacting different roles and exhibiting different emotions, is contemplatively aware of his 'true person' throughout the acting, and is least affected by the emotions exhibited in different roles. The apparent functioning of anthakaranam, is similar to the 'acting' of an actor, or the 'dancing' of a dancer. The individual should contemplatively be aware of "Life" as the only Reality, and the 'living', as an 'appearance' .
