Life Is A Game

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Life Is A Game

Posted by Ken Lauher on Mon, Sep 27, 2010 @ 05:15 AM

 

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alternating nights and days of this rotating Earth, and the alternating

sorrows and joys in people's lives, are like a checkerboard in multi-dimensions. The rules of the game are set by Karma, the law of cause and effect. Karma arranges the reunion of friends lost to one another in the dark night of death. Karma withdraws souls back into the astral world again, when their time on earth has expired.As chess pieces, when " captured, " are removed and placed in a box, so Destiny, when removing people from the " board " of life, places them in the secret " closet, " or resting place, of the other world.View life's ups and downs with a serene mind. For outward existence is only a

game. View your wins and losses with mental detachment, as you would a movie. After viewing a good drama, even a tragic one, you exclaim, " What

a good story! I learned much from it. " Similarly, even after experiencing tragic events in your life, tell yourself, " I am grateful for that experience! It taught me much. " Life needs variety to be

interesting. If a novel makes us laugh or cry, we appreciate it. Think of life as a good novel, or a good movie. Step back from it a little, mentally.View it in perspective. If you don't like the plot, remember, the freer you are inside, the greater will be your ability to change it.Karma rules. But who was it set our karma into motion? We did!Whatever we did in the past we can undo. All we need now is the right determination, born of our increasing inner freedom.People

enjoy games such as chess, and accept their wins and losses more or less even-mindedly. In the same spirit, let us enjoy life, whether it gives us victory or defeat. Let us live calmly and with a sense of gratitude. In that spirit let us enjoy meeting true friends again - after who knows how many lives? And let us accept with calm faith our parting again at death.Life is a game. Be interested in it, but remain always nonattached. Let nothing affect you inwardly. However things go, remember, there is nothing real about it. Don't be life a certain person who, exultant after winning a chess game, died of a heart

attack!Even during dark hours of bereavement, and during your body's inexorable descent into old age, keep a joyful attitude. The black squares on a checkerboard alternate with the white. Even so, every

darkness in life alternates with light, every sorrow with a joy, every failure with a success. Change and contrast are inevitable, and are what make the great game possible. View them dispassionately, and never allow them to define who you are, inside.- Karma and Reincarnation: The Wisdom of Yogananda, Volume 2 (v. 2) by Paramhansa Yogananda