Guest guest Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 When a person is bored, what does he do? He wants to play games to entertain himself. But to play, he needs two things: * enough people to play with * rules In like manner, if the Supreme Person wants to play, he also needs to create the 'many' in order to have fun. That explains the process of involution, the Transcendent involving itself into matter, multiplying itself infinitely. And from the lowest state of consciousness, the hidden principle (which is nothing but an aspect of the Supreme Person) evolves. But as in other games, the divine lila also needs rules. So he makes sure that evolution takes place according to certain rules. Hence, the cosmic principles were born to govern nature. Or else, the evolutionay game would have no meaning. Everything would be random and that would create chaos. Inanimate matter has to evolve according to its Tamo Guna, animal according to rajas and so on, until it reaches man where the possibility of going beyond the gunas occurs.That's when the intelligent person realizes that everything, including his ego and intellect, is part of nature, and nature itself an instrument devised by God for his pleasure. Once he surrenders, the real person behind his physical, mental and emotional being, starts evolving, not according to the ego but to its swabhava. Therefore, every individual is not only eternal but unique and therefore evolution takes place according to that unique divine quality. Once the evolution is complete, the REAL PERSON attains liberation, and the game is over on the material, even as it continues on the transcendental plane. This is what life is all about. Krishna is simply playing a game with himself by involving and evolving, multiplying and merging, and so on. And we, due to an evolved consciousness (evolved compared to the animal, that is), have the audacity to think we are the doers. How absurd! We are the instruments, Krishna alone is the doer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maadhav Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 krishna (god) does not get bored, never. even millions of the vedic rishsi never got bored staying alone in jungles and caves. krishna does lila because he likes to entertain his devotees, and preotect them from the demoniacs. when a father acts like a horse and son rides on him, he is not doing it because he is bored. he just entertains his son. (this is not to imply that one should wish to ride on krishna.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Arjuna When iam bored i play games with my PS2 and games likes GTA, which needs only one player, so your example of multiplicity fails here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 You are a child playing computer games. Well, well, what would you know about multiplicity? Go back home, or I'll inform your mommy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 even when you play on your own, you still need *something* if not someone, in order to play. When it is *something*, it exists in the lower state of consciousness as JADA. When that *something* evolves, it becomes *someone*, a sentient creature, a more conscious instrument of his play. Either way, multiplicity is present. It is krishna's idea of a joke, the ONE BECOMING MANY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 ... there's not before ONE..... then MANY the MANY is eternal as the ONE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 Being serious, Krishna does not want anything, he is above everything. Only humans want this and want that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganeshprasad Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 Jai Ganesh (It is krishna's idea of a joke, the ONE BECOMING MANY) Well if it is a joke i am not laughing Jai Shree Krishna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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