God does not need to refine God’s intellectual, emotional, or spiritual energy. But God does seem to need US to do that.

What would you do if you were sole spaceless, timeless self-aware existence, all that ever was, is, and will be? If this manifested world was a puzzle, then God would be the painted cardboard. You can also imagine a lava lamp.

It may well be the whole reason there is something rather than nothing. God has no need for any of this, but God’s little “something experiment,” aka Lila, does need growth and requires this of us.

Yesterday, I was lurking through the YT channel of my favorite Hindu monk to see if he has some new lecture (pretty ironic to see it written like this), and even though there was no meaningful new video, someone in the comments section had an idea that all forms of striving are actually just attempts to close the gap between ourselves and Divine. I, personally, like to view lila as a game of hide-and-seek.

First you create a split. If you are, then the split is not. This creates two sides that, in the end, are the base of all these many forms. The funny thing is, that even that split is (of) God (after all, it is not). And that is that fabled cosmic paradox. Split allows you to forget yourself. Or better said, hide yourself from yourself. And the rest is hide-and-seek of epic proportions. A quality past time when you not only have all the time in the world, but when you are the source of time itself.