Is The World A Stage?

Aum Sairam

Brahma Satyam – Jagam Mithyam
[God is Truth – World is unreal]

Man returns to earth again and again until he has perfected his acting.

All the world’s a stage, and all men and women are merely players.

The soul is never born and never dies; it was not born and will not be born; without birth, without end, eternal, ancient; it is not killed when the body in which it lives is killed. Just as one casts off old clothes, so the soul casts off bodies in order to take on new ones.

As the apparel is to the body, the body is to the soul, a mere superficial, illusory covering. We have no affiliations based on this transitory body and am bound only by the permanent relationship arising out of pure Love.

Life is a dream; Realize it.

Man has no free-will whatsoever

Nature is your Preacher; your life is your Teacher.

Each of us has struggled upwards from stone to plant, from plant to animal, from animal to man! We have earned the human body by accumulated merit of many lives. Do not expect to find happiness in the ‘other world;’ that world too is impermanent! Once we have exhausted our merit there, we will have to return to earthly life once again.

We separated Myself from Myself so that we can become Myself.

The inescapable destiny of every living being is the attainment of Fullness.

From The Womb…To The Tomb…‘Life’ Is One Big School.

All of the above revelations from great personages and Avatars imply that life on earth is nothing but an evolutionary process towards a higher consciousness, one incarnation after another. So, our earthly sojourn is like a school of learning. We are exposed to a wide spectrum of experiences from all the outer and apparent imperfections and inconsistencies that are transient and unreal, but beheld from a human perspective as real.

Indeed, earthly life is a school of wisdom, where souls learn from direct and personal experiences and evolve from lesser truth to greater truth, and finally to fullness or enlightenment. No event ever happens on earth without a reason, and each soul learns its unique lessons while embodied in the human form.

There is nothing bad whatsoever in His entire creation. Hence, even what we refer to as bad is also a good experience, at least from an evolutionary standpoint.

We have to act our roles perfectly and remember that we are on the earthly stage doing His Will alone. Complete surrender is impossible as long as man is influenced by his mind, with all its waywardness. To free oneself from recurring cycles of birth and death man must have a perfect understanding of non-duality and experience his life as being completely in God’s Hands. This is true surrender.

If our present is but the result of our past, the habits formed are over a long period. But, whatever be the nature of the character one has come by, it can certainly be modified by modifying the accustomed processes of thought and imagination. No one is incorrigible. By conscious effort, habits can be changed and the character refined. By selfless service, by renunciation, by devotion, by prayer and by methodical reasoning and logic, old habits can be discarded and new one’s acquired for taking us along the divine path.

Allah Malik