Although reflections, echoes and mirages are only illusory reflections of real things, they produce real experiences. In the same way, although the identification of the conditioned soul with the material body, mind and ego is illusory, this identification generates fear within him even up to the moment of death. “If duality is false, do perception of a pot or cloth have any real meaning?” Reflections, echoes, or mistaken perceptions, such as thinking a shell is silver, though not real objects, are still real experiences. Though ultimately false, seeing duality in objects, though actually false, gives us real experiences. Thus the state of having a body, though based on falsity, gives the jīva fear of suffering in saṁsāra up until death.