Brian2
Veteran Member
I absolutely love this children's parable...
God alone existed for eternity, which is a very long time.
One day God was bored and lonely and wanted a playmate, so he came up with an idea. He decided to create a play and pretend to be ‘not God.’ So the play began of God and ‘not God.’ He set out pretending to be a universe with stars, planets, trees, plants, animals, and people.
Since God is God, he’s very good at what he does. So when he pretended to be ‘not God’ in the play, he was so convincing in his role of ‘not God,’ he forgot that he was God. So the play became a nightmare. So now God, playing the role of ‘not God’ and forgetting he is God and, as a result, suffering so much, finds himself in an ongoing search for God.
I've posted it elsewhere here, but your posts reminded me of it.
I suppose the part of God that remembers it is God, as there seems to be, could stop the game whenever it wanted, or maybe the whole thing has to be played out to the end with all the law of Karma etc working itself out.
It is interesting that, as I understand it, God is above good and evil and I guess that could mean that any evil or good deeds God does in this pantomime may not really be good and evil when seen from God's perspective, and especially since it is always God who is the lead character/s in the play anyway.
Does it all mean that the Hindu God/s are really one spiritual entity and the pantheism idea, with everything being God, comes from this pretending?