Life is a Play

 

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Life is a Play

Generally, we live our lives unconsciously, mechanically and soon we find that boredom sets in as it kind of lacks life and has no real heartbeat or sensitivity. People become walking corpses. Life was never meant to be serious – our ego makes it that way, heavy and weighty!

To transform this so-called life, one needs to fill it with energy and live in the moment with full awareness. Once you learn to do that this life becomes a pilgrimage of consciousness and divine grace envelops it. We can really feel and experience this when we dance to gay abandon in the presence of the Master or just remembering him – and suddenly we feel light, playful, childlike!

It's all a great, divine play and we all have our roles to play in it. Actually, we are not even playing roles, we are just puppets; there is a wire tied to us. That wire is Universal Consciousness and we all have that Consciousness. We think whatever that Consciousness thinks. But when we fail to understand that, when we allow our individual ego to come to the surface, we think that we are doing something. That is our basic ignorance.

Lightness and playfulness are interconnected. A person who is playful will feel a certain lightness of his being ­– this happens when one’s spirit is ego-less. The ego should not be taken lightly – it is too much identification with the roles that we play in our lives, without the understanding that the role is just a human function. Being a parent is a role given to us by existence, being a doctor, CA, lawyer etc is a role given to us by society.

These roles have to be performed in totality to one’s complete satisfaction, but one should get too identified with the roles. The roles keep changing, as all human beings are created by Universal Consciousness to live a multi-dimensional life. To become identified with just one role of life is to limit oneself and become fixated and imprisoned – life has far more to offer! Then we don’t see its vastness and remain confined – this is the real misery which humans face.

One needs to move from this misery to the mystery of life that surrounds us every moment. If you look at the universe and observe – you will se that the universe is not serious or miserable, only man is. Have you seen a serious tree or bird? Or a serious sunrise for that matter? Or a starry, moonlit night? There is beauty in nature and it is singing and dancing in joyous harmony, then why are we so miserable? We should tune in with nature, with existence and then we too will dance in gay abandon, sing in complete joy and celebrate our existence!