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Namah Vol. 23, Issue 3, 15th October 2015
drawn towards the stakes and take interest
in them.
The real thing is growth through the play
and the experience of navigating through
difficulties that are in fact evolutionary
challenges. In our infant stage we need these
things or else we may not play at all and lose
the possible blossoming of the evolutionary
seed in us. After a while we want to play for
the sake of playing better, even when no
reward is attached to it. The delight of playing is unconscious and mechanical, then we
well, the delight of mastery, the delight of
conquering some aspect or movement of
Nature is reward enough. None else is
needed though it also comes since Nature
plays with fairness and if one has negotiated
one level and seen through the mask of
circumstances these are taken away and the
secrets and powers of nature hiding behind
the challenging situations are revealed and
given to the player like points he has earned.
Of course it is up to each player how he uses
these points which again implies choices,
though choices of a higher kind. We can cash
the points earned for smaller rewards and
get back to the same previous level at which
we played the game, or else we can use it to
jump across a level and go fast forward. It is
these choices we pass through the various
and manifold situations and circumstances
of our life that the evolutionary path opens
before us and we are allocated different levels
of our play, based on the capacity we have
displayed and the choices we have made.
We may pause and ask at this level, what is
the proof that Nature is playing such a game?
Well, the proofs are quite a few but one that
stares at our eyes is simply this, that man, a
product of nature, has created such a game.
In fact he has loved playing such games,
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beginning with’ Snakes and Ladders’ and ‘I
spy’ right up to our modern computer games.
Just as technology is an extension of man and
what we are within we tend to unconsciously
reproduce outside so here too, these games that
man has played and loved since antiquity are
a sign that the script of these games is hidden
within us and some intuition has grasped it
well even as the experience of countless
mystics has testified to it. But naturally if we
start with the opposite premise that Nature
would not see even if something is there in
front of us. We may even say that our very
act of seeing Nature as unconscious is a
reflection of the degree of unconsciousness
that we ourselves harbour within us. As we
grow more conscious, we begin to feel and
see and interact with nature as a conscious
force, at first and then as a conscious being
with which we can communicate and relate
to if we learn her secret sign language. The
final proof can only come by our own growth
in consciousness and inner knowledge, an
exploration into our secret corners and
recesses like a scientist to discover or discard
this hypothesis. There is no other perfect way
but to try it out ourselves and perhaps there
will be more surprises in store for us than we
can imagine. This is one of the differences
between a scientist and a yogi. The scientist
limits himself in fixed paradigms and ends
up proving these since he is not willing to
look further beyond the walls of mud built by
matter. But the yogi is willing to take the other
route and explore into unseen and unknown
hazardous territories of our inner subjective
and inwardly objective dimensions of
existence and study and master them even
as a material scientist masters forces of
material nature. When this inner mastery
impacts and influences the ‘defined’ course