Life
When Shakespeare wrote about life being a meaningless drama enacted between the womb and tomb, he couldn't have been more correct, ever. What a useless piece of time is a life, day in and day out, month in and month out, year in and year out. For what purpose? For what gain?
If, as said in the Bhagvat Geeta, everything has to end in God, and Man has to choose his ‘karmas’, is the entire creation a sort of cosmic video game for God, where the creatures gain points with their acts and go up the next ‘level’ (just as in any game) of evolutionary hierarchy? In a small unknown movie, Shukriya, the character played by Anupam Kher argues mocks at the outrageous idea of ‘mukti’; he questions that if he had to be liberated why he was even given this ‘bondage of love and relationships’ called life, in the first place. Was this idea some sort of a sadistic pastime of God?
And, when God can proclaim with so much pompousness that “I am the One whom you have to meet”, “I am the Beginning and End”, “I am There”, is it a small wonder that Man, supposedly the most perfect and closest to God in form, also full of “I” and ego? Also, cannot God come and meet all its creatures; why does he wait for the creatures to take so many births to reach human form, and then gain Him? Is he so full of ego that He cannot himself walk down and liberate all? Why does He sit back and enjoy the drama unfolding before him, which only makes my question of all this being a video game for Him all the more credible? And, when Liberation was the end result, why did he create life, with happiness and sorrows thrown in between- some pastime for him? And, if by some strange mystical mistake, this ‘karma’ cycle was created, is He not All Powerful Enough to wipe it off, and assuage the pains of the millions of his creations?
Questions, questions, and more questions. Though many answers have been mooted by various faiths, none have been very convincing in their theories.
In all, indeed, life is a meaningless drama, a noisy farce, and here I play the role of a not a nice person. Let's see how long the part lasts, and when and how the director decides my exit.
If, as said in the Bhagvat Geeta, everything has to end in God, and Man has to choose his ‘karmas’, is the entire creation a sort of cosmic video game for God, where the creatures gain points with their acts and go up the next ‘level’ (just as in any game) of evolutionary hierarchy? In a small unknown movie, Shukriya, the character played by Anupam Kher argues mocks at the outrageous idea of ‘mukti’; he questions that if he had to be liberated why he was even given this ‘bondage of love and relationships’ called life, in the first place. Was this idea some sort of a sadistic pastime of God?
And, when God can proclaim with so much pompousness that “I am the One whom you have to meet”, “I am the Beginning and End”, “I am There”, is it a small wonder that Man, supposedly the most perfect and closest to God in form, also full of “I” and ego? Also, cannot God come and meet all its creatures; why does he wait for the creatures to take so many births to reach human form, and then gain Him? Is he so full of ego that He cannot himself walk down and liberate all? Why does He sit back and enjoy the drama unfolding before him, which only makes my question of all this being a video game for Him all the more credible? And, when Liberation was the end result, why did he create life, with happiness and sorrows thrown in between- some pastime for him? And, if by some strange mystical mistake, this ‘karma’ cycle was created, is He not All Powerful Enough to wipe it off, and assuage the pains of the millions of his creations?
Questions, questions, and more questions. Though many answers have been mooted by various faiths, none have been very convincing in their theories.
In all, indeed, life is a meaningless drama, a noisy farce, and here I play the role of a not a nice person. Let's see how long the part lasts, and when and how the director decides my exit.
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