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helpless human beings are and a manifestation of God's wonderful artistry.
This knowledge makes people assured believers making it impossible for them
not to believe. This is the main reason why some people avoid this truth.
The things that are being explained here are as true as a physical law or a
chemical formula. When necessary, human beings can solve the most difficult

mathematical problems and understand many very complex matters.
However, when these same people are informed that throughout their lives
they have experience of only the images formed in their mind, and that they
have no connection with the original of matter, they have no desire at all to
understand. This is an exaggerated case of an inability to understand, because
the idea discussed here is no more difficult than the answer to the questions,
"What is two times two?" or "How old are you?", If you ask any scientist or

professor of neurology where they see the world, they will answer you that
they see it in their brains. You will find this fact even in high school biology text
books. But despite the fact that it is clearly evident, information pertaining to
the fact that we perceive the material world in our brains and the results that
this information entails for human beings can be overlooked. It is of major
significance that one of the most important scientifically proven facts is so
carefully hidden from people's eyes.
The fundamental reason why people easily accept all scientific facts, yet are
so afraid to accept this one, is that learning the truth about matter will basically

change the way everyone looks at life. Those who believe that matter and the self
are absolute beings will discover one day that they have merely dealt with the
reflection in their minds of everything they have worked for and protected based
on this idea - their spouses, their children, their wealth, even their own
personalities. People are very afraid of this reality and pretend not to understand
it even if they do. They try with determination to disprove the facts, which are
simple enough for even a primary school child to understand. The reason behind

this opposition is that they are afraid to lose what this world offers.
For someone who is attached to his possessions, his children, or the
transient offerings of this world, the illusory nature of matter is cause for great
fear. At the moment such a person understands this, he will have died before
his natural death, and he will have surrendered his possessions and his soul.
In the verse, "If He did ask you for it (all your wealth) and put you under
pressure, you would be tight-fisted and it would bring out your

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