Remember: You Are simply Acting a Part

 Give up all these mad pursuits, and then play your part in the universe, as an actor on the stage.

An actor on the stage? 

Yes, we need to remember that this that we are experiencing isn't real compared to that which is experiencing. Life is one big stage we get to play a role on. Remember what Shakespeare wrote in "As You Like It?"

"All the world's a stage, And all men and women merely players."

When we see this that we are experiencing as just a part of a script we wrote and are starring in, and see ourselves as actors choosing to play these parts, we are not so attached to the drama. Are we? Even if we play the part of beggar (that I might be casted for soon lol). It is isn't real. It is just a part and a script we are temporarily getting to participate in.

The actor knows his beggary is not true, but that he has assumed it for play, while the real beggar thinks that it is his too familiar state and that he has to bear it whether he wills it or not.

We do not have to be so invested in these roles we are playing. We are much better off if we do not get lost in character. We can also look out at the world as less threatening than they appear to be to the one lost in character. We can see it for the beautiful, awesome,temporary experience it is. 

The whole universe is changed, and instead of an eternal prison this world has become a playground; instead of a land of competition it is a land of bliss, where there is perpetual spring, flowers in bloom and butterflies flit about. This very world becomes heaven, which formerly was hell. To eyes of the bound it is tremendous place of torment, but to the eyes of the free it is quite otherwise.

Wow! We need to know the costumes we are wearing can come off anytime...so we can look at the world with the eyes of the free.

All is well.

Vivekananda (n.d.) Complete works. Kindle