The Game of Life🔗

You struggle, and create so many things. In Bharat, these kids will play games with small wooden idols. They will all be of the same size and same height. There will be no difference in any carving. These kids will put a red cloth on that idol and they will call it 'mother'. Then they will put a white cloth like a dhoti on another doll and call it 'father'. They will put a small pair of trousers on a third idol and call it 'brother'. They will put a small skirt on a fourth idol and call it 'sister'. They will then play; they will put the father doll in the car and make the sound of a car driving 'dree..' as if the father is going to office. They will put the mother doll in the kitchen and create sounds like cutting vegetables, 'tak', 'tak'. They will say sister is going to school, put the doll in the small bicycle and they will make the bicycle bell sound, 'tring', 'tring' and then take the doll to school. They will say, brother is crying, and make sound, 'ain, ain'. They will live the whole family life with the dolls.

Please understand, we are doing the same thing. We catch somebody and say 'husband'; we catch somebody and say 'wife'. We catch somebody and say 'son', 'daughter', 'friend', 'cousin', 'niece'; you have your own game.

Sometimes I have seen those kids, if the toy is not cooperating or they are not able to handle the toy, they will say, 'It is a bad toy' and throw it. It is the same thing in your relationships. If your script is not enacted, if you don't get what you are going after, if things don't happen your way, you say, 'bad relationship' and throw it away!

Understand, you come down and catch all these relationships and create a small place for yourself. You create a small fence and slowly, slowly you try to expand that fence. By the time the fence is ready and the relationships are ready, life is over! Again you take birth, you come down and create one more fence. By the time you try to expand your fence, expand your relationships, you are old, life is over. Yama, the lord of death, takes you away. See the same thing again and again and again happening!

However much you try to change things in the outer world and however much you try to accept things and bring peace in the inner world, the whole thing is one more dream. If you awaken from this, the whole thing is of no use, whether it is fighting with the outer world or inner world.

See, trying to accept is also fight with the inner world. People come and tell me, 'I am not able to accept. What to do, Swamiji?' I tell them, accept that you are not able to accept; it is one more acceptance. At least accept that you are not able to accept.