“If you approach everything in a
celebratory way, you learn to be non-serious about life but absolutely involved”.
Nowadays, unfortunately, a
festival means they give you a holiday, and you wake up only at twelve noon.
Then you eat a lot and go for a movie or watch television at home. It wasn’t
like that earlier. A festival meant the whole town would gather in a place and
there would be a big celebration. A festival meant we got up at four in the
morning, and very actively, lots of things happened all over the house.
If you approach everything in a
celebratory way, you learn to be non-serious about life but absolutely
involved. The problem with most human beings right now is, if they think
something is important, they will become dead serious about it. If they think
it is not so important, they will become lax about it – they don’t show the
necessary involvement. You know, in India when someone says, “He is in a very
serious condition,” that means his next step is you know where. A lot of people are in a
serious condition. There is only one thing that is going to happen to them
which is of any significance. The rest will bypass them because with anything
that they think is not serious, they are unable to show involvement and
dedication towards that. That is the whole problem. The passage, the secret of
life is to see everything with a non-serious eye, but be absolutely involved – like a
game. That is the reason the most profound aspects of life are approached in a
celebratory way, so that you don’t miss the point.
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