Serve lord with whatever you have
Your entire life is a
pastime of the Lord, while your egotism and you are His playground. Your joys
and sorrows, gain and loss, gaiety and depression, sound health and illness,
honour and ignominy, praise and calumny, what is your own and what is alien to
you, whatever is agreeable and disagreeable, good and evil to you, nay your
very life and death—all these constitute His Recreation, His sport. Mistaking
yourself to be the doer and enjoyer and ascribing to yourself in vain the
pastimes of the Lord, nay, recognizing as your own creatures of God and objects
belonging to Him, conceiving attachment to them and craving for them, you, who
are His sports ground, court disquietude, agitation, sorrow and sin etc., and
fall a victim to them. Shaking off this infatuation-error, realize your true
character and, snapping all these false ties forged by yourself, allow the Lord
to sport at will independently and without any let or hindrance.
You are nothing but his
playground. But if you are unable to visualize yourself as His sports ground,
at least continue to play the role assigned to you for the pleasure of the
Lord, your sole master, according to His rules and witness all His other
pastimes—no matter whether they are amatory or excise terror, are full of
pathos or provoke anger, excite laughter or disgust and remain ever enraptured
by the deftness at play of that unique Player, the sportive Lord.
There are only two entities
in the whole of this infinite cosmos. All that exists is none other than the
Lord and whatever is taking place is His lila or pastime. The Lord and His play
are not essentially distinct from each other. Really speaking, the Lord alone
is the Play as well as the accessories of Play. The Lord is the independent and
suzerain Lord of all the worlds and enacts ever new sports; yet all the pastime
of that omniscient and omnipotent Lord are known beforehand, systematic,
undeluded and supremely blissful. This Lila of the Lord is marked by
everlasting, uninterrupted and limitless joy and joy alone; for this Divine
Play is a manifestation of the said Lord alone, who is infinite and supreme
Bliss personified. The said sportive Lord alone is manifest in the form of His
play.
If in this Lila of the Lord
you perceive or fancy to perceive anywhere dark and dreadful shadows of sorrow,
anguish, despair, melancholy, fear, grief etc., it means that you have not yet
duly realized and perceived that the supremely blissful Lord alone pervades
this endless universe and that His all blissful play alone is uninterruptedly
going on in it. Creation and destruction represent two sides of that Play. Joy
and joy alone is experienced everywhere at all times in every way on realizing and
perceiving this secret.
The Lord alone is the
material as well as the efficient cause of all these pastimes. He alone enacts
these sports, He alone witness them and if all there is any conception of
enjoyment, He alone enjoys Himself in Himself in the form of diverse queer
Playthings as well as in the form the play. You too are a plaything, a
sports-ground or sport. Realize this and become all-blissful forever
- Supremely Blissful and happy life of god
- Supremely Blissful and Be Happy