PASSING THE BALL GAME!!!
Many of us would have played this game when we were children. Even in company outings, this game is played. Let us understand the game first.
A group of 15 – 20 people stand in a circle & the game gets initiated by the facilitator throwing a ball to someone in the group. Simultaneously the MUSIC also starts. People should keep throwing the ball to one another as the music plays on. One should not hold on to the ball longer than necessary.
When the music stops, the person who is 'caught' holding the ball is out! While the facilitator is observing the game, there is another person, a co-facilitator who has his back to the audience, responsible for playing the music as well as stopping it. The idea is that he should not be witnessing the game & should stop the music irrespective of who has the ball at that moment.
In case of any doubt, the facilitator's decision is final & is abiding. If the ball has not left your hands when the music stops, you're out of the game and you must cool your heels outside!
Similarly, when the time comes to leave this Illusory World, if we are caught holding on to something, we've to come again to return what we had taken without permission! Or if we're caught with attachments or desires, then we're sent back & God says, "OK, I shall give you another chance to fulfill all your desires. Please finish all that & come back to me once & for all!!!"
While the gross body has been reduced to ashes the ATMA along with the SUBTLE MIND is free. It's this subtle mind that carries our attachments, unfulfilled desires, bondage, our debts etc…
Hence we need to return back for yet another birth to SETTLE ALL THE ACCOUNTS! It's pay back time. We're not allowed to take anything with us just like a TENANT who lives in a house is not allowed to take anything that belongs to the HOUSE-OWNER!
We should pass the ball & keep nothing. No worries about family, friends, relatives, and foes (Why should we worry? GOD will provide & look after them)…no debts…no desires…no materialistic attachments…no craving for the senses…Otherwise another birth…Immunization…Back to school & college…exam pressure…tension…Interviews…Disappointments… work…salary…repossession…police…defaults…marriage…children…children's' marriage…then grand children…more desires…recession…war…terrorist attacks…disasters…diseases …Inflation…so on.
It's said that once Sage Vyasa explained that Draupadi had in a previous lifetime prayed to Lord Shiva to grant her a husband with 5 desired qualities. Lord Shiva, pleased with her devotion, tells her that it is very difficult to get a husband with all 5 qualities that she desired. But she sticks to her ground and asks for the same. Then Lord Shiva had no other choice but to grant her wish. Hence she gets married to 5 brothers each who represent a given quality in yet another birth!!!
That's why it is said, "Don't ask GOD for anything at all. HE knows best & let him give us what he wants & what he thinks is best for us."
This doesn't mean however that we cannot enjoy the materialistic comforts in life. Doesn't mean we can't explore the exquisite beauty of this World. Doesn't mean we can't make pots & pots of money. GOD has given everything for our happiness only. BUT ALL BELONGS TO HIM!
In the end, one's mind has to become desire less and detached when offered to the UNIVERSE.
PS: The body is a house given to us for rent. The owner is God. HE also has provided for everything & everyone that we may need to lead a happy & contended life. We can live there as long as HE wills.
All the time we need to keep thanking HIM & paying HIM the rent of FAITH or DEVOTION & SERVICE. With these 2 wings only, we can fly away & merge with the UNIVERSE once we leave this body. Only this can redeem our life!
In case we don't pay HIM the rent, HE sends down 'gentle' reminders first in the form of some problems or difficulties in life. If we still don't pay up, then the intensity or the height of the hurdle is raised! As the default continues, then the trouble becomes severe in the form of physical ailments. It's also said that our mistakes & follies in life affects the 'progeny'…
SAI RAM…
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