Post by justlikeyou on Nov 27, 2018 19:31:42 GMT -5
Questioner:
Your universe may be perfect. My personal universe is improving.
Nisargadatta:
Your personal universe does not exist by itself. It is merely a limited and distorted view of the
real. It is not the universe that needs improving, but your way of looking.
Questioner:
How do you view it?
Nisargadatta:
It is a stage on which a world drama is being played. The quality of the performance is all that
matters; not what the actors say and do, but how they say and do it.
Questioner:
I do not like this lila (play) idea I would rather compare the world to a work-yard in which we are
the builders.
Nisargadatta:
You take it too seriously. What is wrong with play? You have a purpose only as long as you are
not complete (purna); till then completeness, perfection, is the purpose. But when you are complete
in yourself, fully integrated within and without, then you enjoy the universe; you do not labour at it.
To the disintegrated you may seem working hard, but that is their illusion. Sportsmen seem to make
tremendous efforts: yet their sole motive is to play and display.
Questioner:
Do you mean to say that God is just having fun, that he is engaged in purposeless action?
Nisargadatta:
God is not only true and good, he is also beautiful (satyam-shivam-sundaram). He creates
beauty -- for the joy of It
Questioner:
Well, then beauty is his purpose!
Nisargadatta:
Why do you introduce purpose? Purpose implies movement, change, a sense of imperfection.
God does not aim at beauty -- whatever he does is beautiful. Would you say that a flower is trying to
be beautiful? It is beautiful by its very nature. Similarly God is perfection itself, not an effort at
perfection.