When Life seems Unexplainable Remember This: It's ALL a Play of Consciousness
Here's the eastern perspective of the universe and how it flows.
The universe is all a divine play. When the soul starts to take life too seriously, karma begins. Stay with me....
Lila is spelled many ways. Leela is a deep spiritual concept in Hinduism. It means "Divine Play." The concept of Lila or Leela is that the entire universe, meaning all creation, all of the joy, sorrow, life, death, beauty, hate, all the drama...all if it...is a spontaneous expression of the divine consciousness, which can also be referred to as God, or Bhahman (Hindu word for supreme consciousness.)
So, here's the essence of the divine play. The universe wasn't created out of duty, need, demand, or compulsion. It was created from utter joy, love and freedom. The soul goes through a divine play through different lifetimes and experiences, but the essence of the soul remains untouched. What this is saying is that we are like actors, playing a role, without being the role.
It's when we attach ourselves, or identify too deeply with our role, that we feel like we are suffering. From this eastern perspective, there really is no tragedy, just a role playing experience. We talk about this in the Yoga Sutras, and in the Vedas.
Here's where it gets even deeper. The divine play, is a cosmic game of contrast. Yoga and Ayurveda teach us this. It is a game of darkness and light, joy and sorrow, truth and illusion. Without contrast we cannot come into awareness of anything. We all talk about coming into the light, but light cannot exist without darkness. No one wants to talk about the darkness, or face their own darkness, but without facing darkness we will never move into the light. The soul cannot awaken unless it sheds the layers of darkness.
WE ALL HAVE DARKNESS...WE CANNOT ESCAPE THIS. There is absolutely no shame in seeing our darkness. In fact it's an absolute blessing!
We all look away when we hear the word darkness. However, it serves a huge purpose! It creates tension, it pushes us to our limits, it makes us long for something different, it makes us ask questions, it makes us renounce what we have been carrying.
IT MAKES US SEEK
The pain of the darkness, helps shatter the ego. Darkness pushes the soul inward, and this is the beginning of the heart merging with the mind - the return back to the self. The darkness is a NEEDED catalyst to help us do this and it can be relentless. The darkness will push-and push-and push until we can't escape it...we have to face it. Once we surrender to the darkness, we can slowly move towards lightness.
The Lila of life is like a DANCE between light and dark. They do an infinite tango, one leads, then the other leads...and on and on it goes. The light is full of unity, love, creation, and illumination. The dark is full of separation, destruction, forgetting, and shadow work. It takes two to tango. Both are part of one play and both are sacred and both serve us in ways be cannot always explain.
Imagine watching your life as a divine play. If the movie was all happy and fluffy and perfect, you'd probably shut it off. Soo....what happens, the divine play adds, drama, heartbreak, trials and tribulations...WHY...to catch your attention, so that we can remember who we are, so that we can rise above, and transform. This is how the divine play works. It's all happening for the sake of our human evolution and transformation.
When the character forgets they are in a play, when we take our role too seriously, when harm ourselves or others in the name of our attachment to our role, we are living in illusion. This is unconscious living. Evil is unconsciousness. The divine is still present, watching this play, not as a judge, but as a witness...a witness to the self. It remains a witness. It never interferes.
Why?..... Because the soul must evolve through it's own choices.
The universe is made up of karmic law. It doesn't understand human morality. It only understands cause and effect.
So when injustice occurs, let's say within the self, it's just part of the divine play. Somehow, it will balance itself out, not to punish, but to awaken. Many of us ask, "If we come from love, why is there so much suffering?" The understanding of the divine play, teaches us that even the painful moments are part of unconditional love to help us evolve and grow, to learn and return to truth. In the Leela, the darkness is a servant because every betrayal, every fall, every painful moment is nudging the consciousness toward the ultimate return, which is coming home to our heart.
Sometimes what looks like injustice is actually an unfinished scene in the play. Just watch it without jumping to conclusions. Sometimes the villain in the play is actually playing a part that your soul needed to grow. Sometimes your "Punishment" or "Failure," is actually your redirection. We don't know how the play will turn out, but when we cling onto our role, we get in the way of the divine play...the play of consciousness. We become stuck in the drama of the play.
When we hold onto the pain of something that happened, or the rage of it, or the grief of it, or the need to fix it long after the moment happened, we become stuck. Then the mind goes in a loop because we hold onto a belief that "This shouldn't have happened to me," "Why did this happen to me?" "They need to realize what they did." There's so many lines to this movie script, however all of these beliefs bind our soul in a loop of replaying the same scenes in the movie over and over and over.
This is the curse we don't know that we are casting. We think we are standing up for what is right, without realizing that we are continuing to carry the wounds through lifetimes. This is pain, trying to be the lead actor in the play. We ask ourselves, "How am I still in the same place, after all this processing time?"
Karma doesn't punish, it mirrors. It doesn't judge, it reflects your vibration. So, when you consciously choose to put your energy in another direction, you break cycles. This is why when we choose to let go, we find freedom. This is why when we decide to stop trying to balance or rationalize our pain, we find peace through release. True justice isn't what we enforce. It is what we outgrow.
The highest power of the soul isn't to punish what is broken, but to unstick itself from the need to fix, or prove anything.
This is the Leela of Life. The divine or cosmic play where joy and pain, rise and fall, hero and villain all serve the same purpose....to help you evolve...to bring you back to your heart...to connect you to yourself, your true nature.
Life doesn't happen TO us, it happens THROUGH us.
~ WE ARE ONE IN LOVE ~
Leelah Lakshmi
