In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it has been told that the world is false, but we think that the transcendental world is false while we make relationships here and say that this is my mother, this is my father, this is my wife, and this world is the real world. We are creating this world by saying that this is wife or husband or daughter. This is illusory and this is false. But the moon and the sun and the pastimes of Lord Rāma and Kṛṣṇa are not false. We will have to reconcile all these things. You can reconcile these things if you are associating with high-class Vaiṣṇavas — otherwise not.
February 22, 1997 Bali