Welcome back to daily breath. I'm the Bach Chopra. We are continuing our journey together through the Book of Secrets. You are the Book of Secrets.

Last week we were talking about are the book of secrets.

Last week we were talking about what is real and what is not real.

And the notion that the cause of all suffering is unreality.

So today, let's go deeper into the link

between suffering and unreality. In the wisdom traditions of the world, real is something

that doesn't change and is absolute.

Unreal is that which is time-bound and constantly changing.

When it is constantly changing it is obviously something that is not graspable because even as the

change is occurring it is over by the time we even comprehend it. So the way we forget the peace and clarity of our

essential being which we call I am can be broken down into five aspects. In Sanskrit these are called

the five glaciers. In Sanskrit the word clasia means the root cause of every suffering.

So here are the five clasias and I'll enumerate them and then we'll go a little bit into detail on each of them.

One, not knowing what is real.

Two, grasping and clinging to the unreal.

Three, being afraid of the unreal and recoiling from it.

Four, identifying with an imaginary self,

which we call the ego, and five, the fear of death. All these five glaciers of suffering or causes of suffering can be resolved all at once by

embracing one reality. What is that one reality? In wisdom traditions it's called the

true self, the soul, or you might call it conscious agent. You are a conscious agent experiencing mind, body, and what we call

the universe as a changing process. The changing process is so fast and so rapid it's almost like

putting together a series of snapshots and experiencing them as a movie.

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