 Being playful always has been understood as irresponsibility. Yes? Do you know, right from your childhood and probably to your children also you're doing this, if they're just playful you think it's irresponsible. The most responsible way to live is that you're playful with life. It's absolutely irresponsible to carry a long face and walk around in this planet. Yes or no? Isn't it absolutely irresponsible to walk around with misery? Yes? That's the most irresponsible thing you can do. So being playful is not irresponsibility. Being playful is being very responsible and responsive to life. Only when you're playful you can do that. When you're serious the world doesn't exist for you. You and your nonsense. Yes? When you're serious it's just about you and your nonsense. The world and the other life does not exist for you. Only when you are playful you can pay attention to everything. You can truly respond to everything in the world. Only if you're playful otherwise you cannot. Just the burden of it will kill you. So playfulness is not a philosophy that you have to develop. I'm going to be playful, I'm going to be playful. No, science is telling you the whole existence is just a dance of energy. It looks like the forces that create this existence are always playful. Always in this culture creation has been described as God's play. When they said God's play many thinking people thought, oh that fool is playing with my life that's why all this misery. The forces of creation are constantly at play. If they stop playing you're finished. Yes? All the basic forces in this within the body itself they must be playing with full vigor. Only then everything is nice. If they stop playing or if they refuse to play you're done, you're over. So playfulness not just in your attitude this is not your attitude, this is the attitude of the creator this is the attitude of the creation. If you are in tune with the creation and the creator being playful is very natural. Only when you're not in tune with that somewhere you got totally enslaved by the process of your mind. Your thought, your opinions, your ideologies, your rights and wrongs, your moralities then only you lost your playfulness. If you're in line with life, if you're in line with creation or creator you would naturally be playful. You have started ignoring the larger creation and become too attached to your petty creation which is happening here. That is why all playfulness is gone. If you're in line with the larger creation there is no other way to be, you will be playful. Only if one is playful such a person can truly grapple with the problems in the world without being affected by it and do his best about it. If he doesn't know how to be playful those problems will just eat him up. The problems that exist in the world are not simple. If you try to grapple with them without the necessary playfulness in you don't ever think you're going to solve the problem you will just get gobbled up by the problem. That's all that will happen. It has eaten up any number of people, isn't it so? Any number of people with good intentions has it not swallowed? Has it not swallowed the problems of the world? Any number of people with very good intentions have just been licked up by the existing situations. You can only handle them if you're truly playful otherwise everything will be trouble. If you maintain just a few hours of playfulness in a day about what you're doing you will see even your physical body will start functioning so much better. Your sleep quota will come down and meditation becomes a natural process for one who is playful because the moment you're playful you are not entangled with the things that you're doing. Once you're not entangled with it you are not accumulating karma, you're doing yoga. The process of living is not entangling, the process of living has become liberating. So you are no more doing karma, you're doing yoga with the activity that you perform. Once you're doing yoga through the day definitely everything should get better, isn't it? For a beginner who is not yet accomplished the activity is necessary and if you don't make the activity playful activity is killing always. No matter what is the type of activity there are different ways of passing through a situation, you know? Mahabharat is a tremendous statement on this how different human beings pass through the same situations. Almost everything that Krishna is going through on a smaller scale people around him are going through. How they go through it and how he goes through it how different types of people go through it the same situations. Mahabharat is a tremendous document on that how different types of people of different levels of consciousness exist and go through the same situations. When there is some problem you're traveling outside or you're in the office some problem arises, there are ten people how these ten different people experience this little problem that's come up? One person will pull his hair and freak out another person will pounce on somebody else another person bangs his head another person looking what he can do do you see this thing happening? Same given situation so fundamentally that's what Mahabharat is that there are all types of people good people, bad people, outright evil absolutely virtuous various types of people if you look at it every kind of human being that you can find in any society they're all there in Mahabharat a whole range of people greedy ones, absolutely selfless ones fearful ones, brave ones valiant warriors, cowards every kind are there and they're all being put through a whole intense drama and you look at each one's experience it's very different and the way he handles it is very different and where he lands up in the end is very different through this whole drama of all the people Krishna is going through the maximum amount of drama but untouched because he said yoga stahakuru karmani that means first establish in yoga and then act if you act without establishing yourself in yoga then your action will become an entanglement it doesn't matter what you're doing simple things that people take up to do in their life after all for most of the people 95% of the people in the world all that they have taken up is just to earn something for their survival procreate, bring up their children that's it just for the small drama that they've picked up for themselves they wanted it a little business or a job a home, wife, children, husband this is it to manage this where they end up many of them end up in the insane asylums too just doing the simple job isn't it so? yes they have not taken up the problems of the world they don't want to be dharma goptas wanting to establish dharma in the world no such great responsibility they have taken up just to earn their living to survive, procreate and die which every creature on the planet does for that see where people are ending up how many people are ending up total nuts how many people are half way down there yes, too many people isn't it? it is taking an unusually heavy toll simple life process it is not necessary this way but unfortunately it does go that way for many people simply because there is no playfulness in their way of existence there is no playfulness in the way they live they are too dead serious now these two things look contradictory and one level we are talking about intensity of passion, devotion another level playfulness that's the whole thing if it's passion you must burn with it if you are half-hearted you will not know what it is it just tortures you you will not know the benefit of it you really have to burn otherwise you will not know what it is at all if you want to walk the path of devotion and you also want to save yourself it doesn't work the idea of devotion the idea of choosing the path of passion is that you want to burn up everything that is you so that only that which you are passionate about or devote about exists within you what you call as myself is burnt up in the simple process it is for a thinking mind this looks like self-destructive but unless you are willing to burn up the limited another possibility never arises within you if really the other possibility has to touch you you really have to burn