Hide-And-Seek - 04.08.10

Student Question: There are a lot of things going through my mind right now so I’m going to try to make sense. I have, through native understanding, the notion that one day the Great Eagle will swoop down and take everything that’s been gleaned from this human experience, from this earth experience, and then who knows what. And I’m trying to understand my relationship to whatever it is that’s trying to understand Itself through consciousness. Is it lacking something by creating all of us and this?

“Well, first of all, know that you are the Great Eagle, and this is all a game that the Eagle plays,” explains Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. It’s just a game. “You play hide-and-seek and the one who is hiding isn’t really lost, and the one who is seeking isn’t really seeking. It’s play on both sides. So the one who is hiding is not lacked by the other. And when that is recognized, then even the hide-and-seek you're playing with yourself—or with the Great Eagle—is only a game for enjoyment.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 8, 2010.