How are you alive eating flesh with flies?

◄ Colossians 3:3 ►

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Seeing that you were dead

[al-Baqarah 2:28]

He who is forgetful of the Self, mistaking the physical body for it.

Ramana Maharshi

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Is the world real?

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein.

"Nothing is as it seems. Nor is it otherwise."

Lankavatara Sutra - Mahāyāna Buddhism

There is no greater mystery than this; that being the reality we seek to gain reality.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Plato’s cave analogy.

Inprisoned inside the cave (Us), prisoners see the shadows on the wall and mistakenly view the shadows as reality.

Greek word "cosmos" Meaning "In The World" functioning apart from God

And according to Early Christian gnosticism - "Seraphims" Keter - Crown Divine Plan ~ The Angel of Death. (Read John 7:7) Satan is the ruler of this "cosmos" (John 12:31; 16:11; 1 John 5:19)

Islam.

The Surah takes its title from the sentence, Wa anzalna' l-hadida, of verse 25 The iron

Hinduism. (Caught up in Samsara – Maya ~ The Malevolant illusion)

( Sanskrit: “magic”)

In which this universe like a snake on a rope imagined appears.

15. He who sees the universe may try to deny it. What has the desireless to do? He sees not even though he sees. ASTAVAKRA SAMHITA – Chapter XVIII