Message #43742

[Jitendra Hydonus]

The cosmic drama unfolding.

God sent perfect souls forth to behave like immortals- - desireless, and happy- - while watching and acting in the moving pictures of earthly life. But, through proximity and ignorant behavior while performing in and watching the intricate dramas of earthly life, souls develop egoistic attachments to other actors and to certain scenes and conditions in the mundane moving pictures. Unless these desires are cast off before death, the soul must return to another body in the same earthly moving picture house in order to work out the desires born there.

Immortal soul-children are sent to the movie house of life, both tragedies and comedies with unruffled equanimity. When these divine children can go back to God and say: “Father i enjoyed acting in and watching Thine earthly moving pictures, but I have no more desire for evanescent amusements,” they are no longer forced by their material desires to come back to Earth.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda SRF lesson 133