Dear Sri soham3,yes, I also understand that discrimination between the real and the unreal is of paramount importance for all of us as seekers. That is why Sri Bhagwan and other great Gurus have used the Vedantic analogy of the snake and the rope to drive this very point home. We mistake a rope on the ground for a snake, while the snake exists only as an idea in our mind. That idea may cause us a lot of worry and anxiety, and we may even waste a lot of mental energy trying either avoid the non existent snake or even kill it, but the basic facts remains: there is no snake outside our imagination. When we see the rope, the substratum upon which our false idea of a snake is superimposed, the idea that there is a snake, and that is real, instantly vanishes. It is not a real snake that has disappeared. The only thing that has disappeared is an erroneous idea. The substratum or the screen upon which the false idea of the mind has been superimposed is the Self. When we see the mind, the Self, the underlying reality, is not seen. It is hidden by a false but persistent idea. Conversely, when the Self is seen, there is no mind and no entertainmemt of such doubts and argument. But persistent effort, by the Grace of the Guru, is needed most to awake into that which is Bliss and which is our permanent Home. Guru's Grace results, in my view, in persistent Self enquiry. Dear soham3, I have lost access to a computer and I am uploading these posts from my mobile phone. Therefore, kindly bear with me if some error creep in. Thank you. Anil