Try to understand that in daytime you are illusioned by this gross body, and at night you are illusioned by the subtle body. So both of them are illusion. Therefore if you are intelligent, your inquiry should be "What is my real life?" That is intelligence, "What I am?" That is... Sanatana Gosvami placed before... "What I am?" Ke ami. That "I am simply hovering in illusion, gross and subtle. Then what is my real position? What I am?" That is real philosophy. Athato brahma jijnasa. This is called Brahman. When I am Brahman", so that is the beginning: "What I am? What is my position?" That illusion is going on. So the material life means he is in illusion for millions and millions of years. Ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kona bhagya... So out of many such millions and millions living entities, one becomes conscious, that "What is my real life?" That is awakening. Guru-krsna-prasade paya [Cc. Madhya 19.151]. Then he begins his devotional life: "My real life is this."
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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