Paramahansa Yogananda’s prayer Make Me See That I Am But An Actor In Thy Cosmic Motion Picture is a source of great inspiration and comfort. His wisdom provokes one to contemplate the play of life – lila – from the observer perspective. This detachment, while difficult to achieve, is key to achieving peace and serenity in one’s day-to-day life as well as a milepost on the journey to immersion with the Source Creator and the bliss that is its rewards.
“Beholding the ever-changing sound-and-motion pictures of life, I am aware that this turbulent dancing show is only a vast illusion.
The tragedies, comedies, and paradoxes of life; the dreams of birth and death; the changing scenes ad places that surge round us: all these are nothing but movies, designed to engage us in the Cosmic Illusion.
O Divine Operator, with Thy cosmic vibratory light Thou dost show us ever-new thrills: a motion picture true to all our five senses, keeping, us amused and entertained through sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. O Magic Operator, Thy true-seeming spectacle beams daily onto the screens of our consciousness.
I take it as Thy grace that I’ve been chosen to play both tragic and comic parts in Thy drama. I am happy to have acted all those parts, both of sorrow and of joy. Still, Father, give me now and then a few days of respite from my task! Let me retire to my closet of introspection, stand before my own thought-audiences, and behold with laughing heart all the tragedies and comedies I have enacted.
Teach me to look upon all that happens in my life with a pleased, interested attitude, that at the end of each episode, no matter how sad or difficult, I may exclaim: Ah, that was a good show, full of thrills, suspense, and excitement! I am happy to have seen it, and I have learned much from it for my own benefit.” Whispers from Eternity
Wishing you peace and serenity as you enjoy the Cosmic Motion Picture of your life! . . . Joanne
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