God Dreaming as You

A mask of flesh, a fleeting name, The dreamer hides within the game. A thousand roles, a thousand tries, God awakens through disguise. The wave believes it’s lost at sea, Yet all along the ocean’s me . What if you are God dreaming you are human? Not as something to believe blindly, but as a playful idea to sit with, a thought experiment that might just make this strange life feel richly meaningful. If you were infinite, omniscient, omnipotent, eternal, you’d be bored out of your divine mind. Everything perfect, nothing to surprise you. So what would you do? Invent the ultimate game. Hide from yourself. Forget who you are. Pretend to be the unseen actor behind every human, animal, star, and tree. You’d lose yourself so completely in the role that the masks hold you. This is the cosmic mystery of Leela , or divine play, a Hindu concept where the world is creation’s playful expression, not duty. Death? It’s just the curtain falling, the mask lifting. The dr...