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View Cart- Eknath Easwaran (1910–1999) is a spiritual teacher for our times and the founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. A professor of English literature, acclaimed writer, and lecturer, he wrote 27 books, which have been translated into 26 languages. For almost forty years, he taught Passage Meditation and his Eight Point Program as practical tools for living high ideals in the home and community.
Thought for the Day
September 22
God has created the world in
play.
– Sri Ramakrishna
A simple, childlike story in India’s ancient scriptures tells how multiplicity emerged from unity. The Lord, the One without a second, felt very lonesome one morning. After all, he was the only thing that existed in the entire universe, so when he looked around him, he could see no one but himself. This did not satisfy him at all. He wanted to play.
So he made playmates. Out of himself he created the myriads of creatures, the two-footed and the four-footed. He started playing with them, playing hide-and-seek, which is what life is all about. We are all playing this game with the Lord. We are all seeking him, and he is hiding playfully from us.
It is easy to talk about this, sing about this, paint this, but it is an entirely different matter to experience it. Yet in deepest meditation, the veil separating you and me can drop. Then, beneath the varied costumes, we will be able to perceive the same supreme Reality whom we call God, who is playing his game in the world.
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