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brains. You will find this fact even in high school biology text books. But despite the fact that it is clearly ev-
ident, 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 be-
lieve that matter and the self are absolute beings will discover one day that everything they have worked
for and protected based on this idea - their spouses, their children, their wealth, even their own personali-

ties - is an illusion. 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 malevolence." (Surah Muhammad: 37), God reveals how human beings will behave with

meanness and rancor when He demands their possessions from them.
But when a person learns the real nature of matter, he will understand that his soul and his possessions

THE GREATEST FEAR OF THOSE WHO ARE SWEPT

AWAY BY MATERIAL GREED

Think for a moment about those people who are swept away
by material greed: what do they value most? A fine house,
luxurious things, ostentatious jewelry, the latest model car, pulses coming from these material things. This
big bank accounts, a yacht... For this reason, these people are is the situation of a person, as in the picture
very afraid of the fact that they are observing all the things above, who gives money to buy the magnificent villa shown
they possess on a screen in their brains and that they will in the background. While he thinks that he is buying the villa
never have the actuality of these things. and counting the money, really he is buying an impression
Whether they like it or not, they are living in a world of fac- formed in his brain, and he is not giving actual money to the
similes composed in their brains and cannot possibly have person in front of him, but an image of money. The person re-
any relationship with an external world. Sound, light and ceiving the money is really receiving an impression. In other
smell cannot enter the skull; what enters is only electrical im-
words, there is a "transaction of impressions".

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