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To grasp the reality of motion, at first, we have to realize the Bradelian interpretation of motion with modern perspective. Francis Harbert Bradley (1846-1924), born in Clapham of Surrey, is famous among the British Idealists and becomes best known for his Metaphysics. Bradley's metaphysical view is unique; it has its own intrinsic value. Here, we are concerned about his view regarding motion. Bradley tries to show that those concepts of common sense, through which we usually understand the world, lead us to contradictions. He argues that if secondary qualities are appearances then primary qualities cannot stand by themselves; as a matter of fact, materialism, as a theory of reality, ceases to be tenable. Therefore, the reality of things, in terms of qualities, becomes incoherent. If we take a statement, e.g., 'a human being is rational, intelligent and bipad animal', we find that the reality of the statement cannot be just a plurality of qualities in a relation. If we think so, we will be led to say that P is being related to Q means either that P is P or P is other than P. It is not easy to discuss about qualities without relations or to discuss about them as having them. Qualities can be shown both, to make their relations and to be made by them; while relations can be shown to be nothing or it gives rise to an infinite regress. Bradley claims that space and time must be both, more than relations and yet a set of relations, there is nothing left to the notion of things as such. Therefore, discussion relating to primary or secondary qualities, relations, space and time, causation, motion etc. must therefore belong to the world of appearance. But without motion our usual life would be stopped. Sun,moon, stars, planets and othe stars cannot move without motion. If motion is not accepted then astronomy would be in vein. Even we cannot speak and write without the movement of our vocabulary organs and that of fingers respectively. So, the existence of motion has to accept in usual life, in scientific research and in all other aspects of life.