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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Real Truman Show


This morning when I was standing at the train station, waiting for the train, I looked up to the sky and noticed that the moon is there, watching us. The contrast between the light blue sky and the clouds color looks so strong that I felt like it was not real at all, but more like a water color painting. Suddenly I think of this scenery almost similar to one of the scene appear in 'The Truman Show' movie.

The movie was directed and played by Jim Carrey. The story is about an insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a TV show. Thousand and millions of people watching him on TV. There is one scene where the producer of the TV Show, watching Truman from the moon, which actually a control room used by the producer to control lights effects, weather and everything in the show.

Could this actually happen in our life as well ? Where God is the producer and He is watching us from His control room and observe our daily life ? We are just God puppets to be placed on stage and our life story is actually all in the hand of God. Sometimes He will give us some obstacles, difficulties, challenge, misery in life but sometimes He is kind enough to let us enjoy the happiness. If you believe in God, you might feel the same way as what i feel.

The point here is the world will not just be there for no purpose. There must be a creator with highest power that make this world exists. I do believe that in each one of us, there's a soul, given my God and bestowed into our physical body. Then He starts the stage playing by watching us, to see whether we are able to find back the origin of our soul, cultivate it and return back to Him when it's time. Then the physical body will be discarded.

But how does the God judge that a soul can be returned to him ? Well, there must be some guiding rules there to give out the merits. Regardless of what religion you are, I believe that the final purpose of all the religion always go back to cultivate kindness, happiness and good in one's doing.

We will always in Samsara if we do not have the right merits to go back to Him, where as human being, we have to go through life, aging, sickness and death again and again which will bring suffering to us.

By realizing this, one's will always live his life by following the right path. The guidelines can come from any religions text, Qur'an, Yoga Sutra, Kong Zi's Tao or others. But there's only 1 final path/destination which each one of us will follow - back to our inner soul, back to God and end all the suffering in samsara.

This is just my own realization, so please don't feel offend by any words or sentences I wrote here.

Namaste !

2 comments:

  1. Looking back my posting, seems like it is aligned with Patanjali Sutra 1:23 :

    Spiritual consciousness maybe gained by ardent service of the Master.

    This posting was written before I read the text but based on my yoga teacher insight given to me.

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  2. This is exactly being written in Bhagavad-Gita As It is by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupādā, page 7 :

    "When we see wonderful things happening in cosmic nature, we should know that behind this cosmic manifestation there is a controller. "

    It match my writing that I posted, even before I read the book.

    Thanks for the insight given !

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