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individual existence and which at the same
time we want to tame and master. And when
we have, with great effort and perseverance,
mastered one movement or force of Nature,
more spring up to overwhelm us with its
ambiguous face. Each time we win a race with
Nature, each time we jump over a fence she
has built around us, the bar gets raised and
as we wonder if there is ever an end to our
search and our finding, the beyond now
within our reach opens doors to a yet greater
beyond.
Clearly we have missed her intent because
we believe it is not an intentional game
played by a conscious force but an unintel-
ligent, mechanical energy, robot-like, that is
confronting us. Therefore we believe that we
too can conquer this energy by mechanical
means and robot-like techniques and processes.
We succeed and we fail at the same time as
each new success reveals us the next step before automatically as it were. Each failure keeps
which we lie crestfallen. But if we take the
other view that Nature is a conscious Force,
a mother in disguise who is playing the role
of teacher, to raise our potential to the nth
degree possible, then the scenario changes.
Evolution becomes a discovery of our highest
and deepest possibilities and through this
game of hide and seek, this cat and mouse-
like chase, Nature unveils and gifts us, as a
teacher to its student who has passed
successfully an exam, her own greater and
greater powers, rewards of greater know-
ledge, possibilities of sporting with danger
and unforeseen delights. We then begin to
participate in the game as conscious players
who are aware of the goal and laws and rules
of the game. We may still win and lose, rise
and fall, rejoice and weep, succeed and fail,
escape or be hurt momentarily but we never
lose sight of the play. The next moment we
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are up again and get back to the game of
games that she, the creative and many-
sided mother, has devised for our joy. The
perspective changes and with it our choices.
Our conscious participation makes it easier
for us to collaborate in her greater plan. We
graduate from her school of ordinary life
faster and start playing with her higher
energies. We climb the green delight of her
hills and she unveils before our eyes the white
purity of the snow peaks and the sheer delight
of that featureless Oneness which yet sustains
the million energies that feed the world.
Levels of play
When we have thus discerned the real sense
of the play, we discover that the play takes
place at many levels much like the modern
computer games. Each level mastered
upgrades the play by one notch for us,
the play tied down to the same level, repeating
itself any number of times with slight
variations but with the same basic design and
plot. The world scenes are like images on the
computer or television screens where our
choices act like switches to tune in to different
types of games presenting itself through
situations and circumstances of life through
which we must navigate with hurdles set
across the path and also brownie points that
catapult us further. But regardless of failure
and success, regardless of our momentary
pleasure or pain, we keep growing as we play
the game. Each practice helps us make one
step further even when we are playing at the
same level. We grow through the experience
of playing itself and success and failure are
simply tags attached by Nature to keep us
engaged in the game. These are not part of
her main play but side-processes to keep us
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