leading role in gods play

[angels.img]

life feels like a play everyday the lights come on nd i say my lines nd express my predetermined emotions while a faceless audience watches from beyond the blinding light. everywhere feels like a set a distorted resemblance to reality. its not a bad thing but sometimes i cant stand being watched anymore

[Nazheek]

"According to many schools of Hinduism, the world is an illusion, a play of the supreme consciousness of God. It is a projection of things and forms that are temporarily phenomenal and sustain the illusion of oneness and permanence. The illusion of phenomenal world is created and sustained by stand alone objects thrown together either by an act of randomness or through the deliberate choice of conscious will.

From the human body to a giant galaxy, each object in the material universe is what it is because of the aggregation of things that sustain its current state. Change one of them and the object becomes something else in time and space. Thus what we experience as our world and what we consider to be our existence are real in a limited sense and limited perspective.

Our scriptures declare that creation is the play of consciousness. It differentiates itself into diverse things and in the end withdraws everything into itself for no apparent and specific reason because God does nothing with any particular aim or desire. Says the Yoga Vashista, 'The world is nothing but a mere vibration of consciousness in space. It seems to exist even as a goblin seems to exist in the eyes of the ignorant. All this is but Maya: for here there is no contradiction between the infinite consciousness and the apparent existence of the universe. It is like the marvelous dream of a person who is awake.'"

https://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/e ... a.asp#bk01

I wonder what goes on backstage? And, where do the performers go when they finish their sets?

[Nazheek]

Who is the rapscallion playwrite who came up with this dreadful play, performing it is so taxing!

Who is the master who makes the grass green?

[angels.img]

Who is the rapscallion playwrite who came up with this dreadful play, performing it is so taxing!

Who is the master who makes the grass green?

in that sense we are
if existence is just god playing out consciousness then were just the role being played till we retire
behind the curtain

[burntfeathers]

It's not a movie, no private screening
This method acting, well, I call that living, yeah
It's like a fountain, a door has been opened
We have a problem with no solution
But to love and to be loved

So, I've made peace with the falling leaves
I see their same fate in my own body
But I won't be frightened when I'm awoken from this dream
And returned to that which gave birth to me

[Nazheek]

Who is the rapscallion playwrite who came up with this dreadful play, performing it is so taxing!

Who is the master who makes the grass green?

in that sense we are
if existence is just god playing out consciousness then were just the role being played till we retire
behind the curtain

This implies it’s more like method acting with some decision and individuality within the “role players” themselves having active influence over their own roles and others.

Meaning we’ve been behind the curtain the entire time until we realize we are the stage and we have control of who we are

We're not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.

[Nazheek]

I am reminded briefly of this quotation of a quotation from a page of the site mentioned by Redbeck recently to a greenhorn embarking First upon his voyage

"An analysis of the several terms for man, soul, or spirit reveals the time-honoured belief that the human race emerged in its infancy from the Great Light, and that every human soul was a spark or fragment of the Ever­Existent Oversoul. The Egyptian for man was se, the German for soul is seele - cognate with Selah! - and meaning likewise the 'Light of the Everlasting.' The Dutch for soul is ziel, the fiery light of God, and the English soul was once presumably is ol, the essence or light of God. The Hebrew for man is ish and for woman isha."