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A Poem on Time and the Play of Life
“Bound to our own, and to the sweet dreams of our own, to every hope there clings a despair — who can understand it, who knows its language?”
About this teaching
This life, this world, is but a play of all of time. Play on, keep playing your part, while still you can. In this world, time is mighty above all.
Chapter 22 — A Poem on Time and the Play of Life
Chapter 22 of 35 — a single teaching, 2 min in total.
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Where this sits in the Mahabharata.
The Mahabharata is less a story with a moral than a very long argument about how to act. Its characters are given impossible situations and are judged not on the outcome but on the quality of their reasoning and the honesty of their motives.
Krishna's role throughout is the counsellor who refuses easy answers. He does not remove the difficulty; he changes what the person is able to bring to it.
