Traps On The Spiritual Journey

Now the Hindu doctrine of the creation of the universe is if I may put it in extremely naive terms that the Lord God who in Hinduism doesn't have a beard and things like that as he does in the West but is something unimaginable however he is represented often in the human form with many arms and so on but the Lord God is playing that he is not himself and in in the Hindu western version the first thing that the Lord God said increating the universe was let there be light but the Hindus would have said the first thing he said was you must draw the line somewhere that is this action of cutting of Maya see and that's the whole of life you must draw the line somewhere see if we're going to draw a line at all you see going to be a difference between this and that between good and evil between the flesh wounds and the painful between the mother's from the immodest whatever you will you see you've got to draw the line somewhere so the whole of life is the game of where we're going to draw the line see and how far how far can you go and then you would be way annoying me way out but still you've got to draw the line upward and then that was Maya and then he decided you see he the second thing he said to himself was get lost because he was born with being God and he thought you know everything is possible there is no obstacle in any direction nothing is happening so let's get lost let's pretend we are not God and so he's pretended that he's all of us and every one of us is the Lord in disguise making a big scene that you're just little me and it's very embarrassing when a good skillful guru calls your bluff on this and says listen Shiva stop kidding you know I know who you are perfectly well and always come on with your your just you and that you have these problems and so on and so on that's a lot of bullshit come off it so plus is very embarrassedby this and makes out that they really don't know what the teachers talking about but just like the ordinary singing a skillfully acted play knows in the back of its mind that it is a play so every individual in the back of his mind hardly and barely conscious knows who he is and he may insist on little me just like you know when something have you ever enjoyed being in a state of grief or hating someone no there's a fundamental zest in really hating somebody and you you even though you don't really hate them somehow you you wouldn't want to give it up you know it's an unpleasant feeling date something see and so this other attitude have all come off it can sometimes penetrate through these negative emotional states so then you see in the green room behind the stage this corresponds to the back of the actors mind because it's in the green room that he tossed his mask and changes his costume and drops his role see so it's interesting isn't it that the word person isn't a dramatic word because the persona was the mask worn in classical drama it is shaped with the mouthpiece like a megaphone so that in the open-air stage the sound will travel so that through which the sound comes pear Sona the mass so the dramatis personae in the beginning of a play is a list of the