7. LIFE ON EARTH IS A COSMIC DRAMA
What do we see in a drama? The actors come onto the stage, do their part and they go. Nothing is real. It's just a show. There is a producer-director who has conceived the drama and produced it. He has written the storyboard. He controls what happens on stage. The actors are free to do their part their way. But everything is controlled by the producer.
Life on earth too is nothing more than a big cosmic drama. There is a humongous stage we call the earth. There are 8 billion actors. We come and we go. Every morning, the sun rises and the curtains are drawn. Each one of us has the power to choose our actions. But we cannot control what happens on the earth-stage. This unfolds as per the Divine law, as per our own Karma. However, we have the freedom to do as we would like to do. Our actions become the very seeds that we plant for our destiny that will unfold in the future. What happens in our life drama, in this life or in the next, depends on our own actions.
But finally, the drama will be over. There will be laughter and tears, loss and gain, sun and rain, pleasure and pain. It's all a part of the drama called, 'Life'. The unique thing about life is that there is a purpose unknown to man. The purpose is to realize the Truth about who we are and why we are here. If we don't realize the Truth, we will die only to be born again and again, and we will suffer on the earth-stage.