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No problem—you can sit in one place. God has given you something called imagination. You don’t need anyone else. You can go on imagining whatever you like.
You can think, “I am the king. Everyone is coming before me, bowing down at my feet.” In your mind, you can create so many scenarios—people glorifying you, serving you, obeying you. You can consciously create such dreams and try to enjoy that rasa.
But will it truly satisfy you? No. Imagination is powerful, but it cannot fulfill you completely. Deep within, you want real experience—you want real control, real reciprocation.
Take the example of movies. Can anyone make a movie that contains only happiness (sukha) from beginning to end? Practically, no. Every movie has both happiness and distress (sukha and dukha), because that is what creates involvement.
When you watch a movie, you identify with it—you feel joy and sorrow along with the characters. Now imagine creating a movie that is only happiness. What would that even look like?
Let’s say you make yourself the supreme controller. Everyone listens to you, everyone obeys you. You decide everything—what happens, how it happens. You write the script, create the scenes, and then sit and watch: “I am the supreme enjoyer.”
Today, with cartoons and animation, you could even create entire worlds—millions of characters, all serving you, all bowing down: “Yes, Your Lordship.” And you sit and watch, enjoying: “I am supreme.”
But still, it will not satisfy you.
Why? Because imagination involves only you. There is no real independence, no real relationship, no true exchange. It is all self-created.
That is the limitation of imagination—it cannot replace reality.
