Submitted by Dr. Saarya Sharma on
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How is life a playground for the spirit?
The reason: Spirit is immortal but learns, grows, and is amused by lessons derived from experience.
If it’s a fragment of infinite consciousness exploring its own infinite potential, then any path of experience from beginning to end has value, even if it involves suffering.
So think of a video game where you explore but get shot up and die and fight people or find things or whatever… why is it like a digital playground for you? Because you’re safe in front of the monitor, so at the end of it you come away with a memorable experience.
Life is the same way, to the core part of your spirit.
Of course, as humans we are looking at it from the perspective of the video game character and we experience pain and suffering so it’s more real to us, but in the long term and big scheme of things it’s not as serious as we think.
But if there’s something that interferes with freewill, that delays the experience for way too long and creates a cascade of negative effects that impacts our future lives and those of others in a way that even spirit doesn’t enjoy (in other words, like in a sports game where the referee steps in because major violation happened that doesn’t allow the game to continue as is) then there’s intervention from above.
Our world now has some divine intervention going on because darkness has crossed a line in some areas, but other things here are indeed just ‘playground for the spirit’.
I also say that life is a gym for the soul, and a prison for the body. The body’s never getting out of here. It’s a life sentence in matter, literally. It gets old, gets injured, feels pain, and dies.
The soul, however, is what experiences that suffering emotionally and psychologically, and changes in its astral qualities as a result. The astral quantum-attracts life experiences that contain an emotional payload and learning lessons. It experiences the highs and the lows, the joys and the torments, and is fully “in” it like an actor who forgets he or she’s acting and is totally absorbed in the character.
The spirit, even more aloof, is knowingly beyond all this and hence what is a torture chamber for the soul is a playground or amusement park ride for the spirit. We see everything from our ego-imprinted perspective so of course we take it seriously. But from an absolute higher perspective, we’re taking things too seriously here.
The big question that comes out of this is: what of compassion? If we shouldn’t take our own suffering so seriously, why should we take another person’s suffering seriously enough to try and help them? That’s a dilemma for Buddhists and Hindus who are into detachment and seeing reality as an illusion to transcend.
My personal view is that suffering and darkness exist not only to be learned from, but to be fought and overcome, and we should neither be so aloof as to neglect our duty to do that, nor so entrenched in illusion that we feel powerless and overwhelmed. The Bhagavad Gita has a lot to say about this issue and is worth pondering.
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