It is not that we will miss anything if w& Happinesse take life as a play. The truth is that it will add quality of our life and it will make for its richess and excellence. Therefore Krishna says, “Yoga brings excellence to your actions.” In fact, when life becomes a play, all its pinpricks and hurts go, all its thorns disappear and we are left with its flowers in our hands. If life is a play, why any one should burn in hell fire of hate and anger? Then only a mad man will enact anger and hate in his life. And all sensible people will enact only love and affection. If we are to dream, why dream that we are a begger? Then everyone will dream thaey are kings. If we explore our doings with attention we will find that we are playing roles all along the road of life. We are enacting the role of father and a son, a mother and a daughter, a wife and a husband, a friend and a foe. We really need to observe and examine all our actionsminutely and see if they are different from acting. And we will soon laugh at ourself. Maybe we are crying and watching our tears, and soon we begin to laugh inside. Maybe we are quiet one thing on the outside and quiet its opposite within. And by and by our life will turn into a play.
A Zen monk was dying and he called his friends and said, “Countless people have died, but, I want to die in a novel manner. Please help me.” His friends laughed at him. But after discussing a lot the monk decided that he will die on head stand pose of Yoga. He died head stand pose of Yoga. But dying in that way created a problem for the whole monastery. This man/ monk who can die playfully, knows that life is a play. He lived playfully and died playfully. And he also knows what action without a motive, without being attached to the fruits is. When one turns his work into play, his whole life becomes a play. Then he can take everything, including death, as a play. But this is possible only when we know the real actor within us. We don’t have to act, we are already acting and we have only to know the truth of it. Krishna does not tell us become an actor, or to parctice acting. If we practice we will remain a doer, and we will become serious about every role. Krishna says we have only to know the reality of our life. As far as he is concerned, he knows for himself that it is nothing different from acting. And once we know it for ourself we will cease to be a doer in life. Then our life will turn into a play, and that is what Sannyas is.
Krishna speaks of two kinds of action: one is action without attachment, and another is inaction with a sense of involvement in action. These are two ways of Sannyas and action, and it depends on us which way we choose for ourself. Someone can choose doing and yet remain a non-doer, and another can opt for non-doing and yet remain a doer.
Wishing you good health & happiness,
Dr. Dwarakanath, Director, Mitran foundation-the stress management people
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