Excerpt: We are here to realize the true Self. The implication of that is that we haven't been living in our authentic Self, but in some false, unreal persona. And if we are not living in our Real Self, then we are not living in the Real world either. If the world is false, and the self is false, things are going to happen which are unsustainable, because the false cannot survive the test of Truth. Because so many living on this planet are living in the false self, we have a false world that is collapsing. You can't live in that state of hypocrisy without karma hitting you pretty hard. (Shunyamurti Teaching - Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 19, 2012.)