What is the biggest delusion in human life?

What is it? Do you know?

Before that we should be clear about what delusion means.

A delusion is a belief which is not true in reality.

Usually delusions are of negative kind. Some examples:

• You believe that you are not good looking. This is quite a common belief held by large number of humans, specially of female kind of young age. Reason is:   

  "in most countries, even in this modern literate age, young girls are evaluated and chosen by young boys and men by their looks rather than their intelligence and inherent worth."
  

  It is a negative delusion and curable most of the time. By this delusion resulting loss belongs directly to you.
• You believe that you are weak in maths. Though you are pursuing technical or science subjects, still you cannot get over this strong fear in maths. This is a negative delusion and generally root cause in this fear originates early in childhood and persists throughout life. Of course this is curable. By this delusion you stand to lose in many ways.
  Both the first and second delusions are called by the names of fear, inferiority complex and so on. Technically we classify these as delusions. Reason:

  we firmly believe, your delusions are based not on sound and reliable reasoning, truths and principles. In reality truth is different – it is positive – for you.
  

  Look around, analyse. You will find ample evidence of what we say. Nevertheless, in time we will show you enough reasons for you to start believing. Firm belief opposite to your delusions takes time to grow.
• You believe that whatever you think or say is always the right thing and others are wrong. With trivial reasoning, and easy experimentation, this can be proved false any time. This delusion though not only undermines the believer it may also affect a very large number of people adversely. Other names of this delusion are superiority complex, egotism and so on. Wealth, material success, and intellectual success amongst others, are the root causes of this type of delusion. Why do I call this as delusion? Because:

  any living thing is inferior to any other living thing in many ways. Secondly, superiority is only temporary, any living thing will die, Thirdly, practically all points of views are subjective and practically all statements have counter-statements. Fourthly, the superiority, if not translated into anything positive and lasting, is valueless.
  

  Can this be cured? We believe, by clear reasoning and effective practices, this can be cured for the good of all.

We know now what delusion is. All these examples unfortunately are of negative kind. Can you think of any positive delusion? What are the delusions that are good to have?

• A celebrity cricketer when walked to the crease to start batting, you could see a corner of his hanky peeking through his right pocket. That was his belief. He considered that action to bring good luck and success to him. Why do we call this a delusion? By no conceivable reason you can say with any amount of certainty that merely by hanging a corner of his hanky from his right pocket he would definitely score a lot of runs.
  Should we laugh at him? Never ever make that mistake. This type of delusion each one of us has in some way or the other. These do not harm the person or others but definitely increases the confidence of the believer. This is a positive delusion. Commonly these are called as idiosyncrasies – a tough word undoubtedly.
• My niece told me the other day, “Suprio Sir is a great teacher.” I assumed that by this she meant him to be a great man and surely a model for her. He may be a good teacher to my niece, but in private life, in his mind and in other spheres of his life he may not be as great as my niece thought. By believing in the greatness of the man though, my niece could create a model valuable for her growth – a positive delusion.

  Most of our beliefs or perceptions about good, bad or great about things and people are biased and technically are delusions. Still these help in most cases where these are of positive kind.

Now the main question: what is the biggest delusion in human life?
Think over. Think through. Then only start reading this monologue again.
 A few decades back I lived away from my family for a few years in a faraway place, alone. Coming home on a short leave, one fine morning as I just stepped out of the compound of my building the idea struck me like lightning – ohh, why didn’t I think it before!

Every human, every life form cannot think, if it can think, and can never accept that it will die. That one day it will cease to be from this beautiful earth with total certainty.

This is the biggest delusion in human life.
Take away this delusion, world as we know will stop.
Elated I asked the question to my near ones, my close friends. To my surprise some of them straightway went to the right answer. One of them though pointed out, “In Mahabharata, Yudhisthira, the wise one, was asked the same question and he gave the same answer.
At first I was a bit deflated.
Now I know, 7.5 billion humans on this earth form a single entity with single consciousness, but everyone goes through life perceiving and discovering the great truths by himself or herself. A great truth however many times you hear, you won’t own up – it will not be yours. It will be yours only when you perceive it yourself. This the way learning happens, personal growth happens. 
This one by far is the biggest and strongest delusion of positive kind inhuman life.
Back to track we ask, “What is the use of this oblique, convoluted and apparently fruitless discussion? Like all mortals I try to justify.
Our recommendation as decision analysts:

• Identify all delusion you have – don’t leave anything. This process itself will unfold yourself to you greatly.
• Classify the delusions in two classes: positive and negative.
• Apply your reason and all other techniques that you know or don’t know (if you don’t know, learn) to vanquish, erase, and get over the negative delusions.
• Be sure of a great wealth of knowledge and progress forward. That will be the outcome for certain.

You may ask me, “Do you do it yourself?”
At the least I am honest. I answer, “No dear, not fully. I am a mere mortal. My will is not as strong as yours. But I try. I don’t give up. I wish you success.”