/lit/ - Literature

>>20082892
>But since you're actually brahman, you're just messing with yourself?
Unironically I think Alan Watts' explanation for this is the best; Brahman is engaged in 'divine play' ("lila" in Hinduism). Brahman loses himself in himself for the luls. Brahman enjoys the endless kaleidoscope of experiences. For the same reason that video games are no longer fun when you have cheat codes, or that movies and plays are the most exciting when you forget you're watching them; Brahman intentionally loses himself in the divine illusion of play to live an endless variety of lives, and feel that they are meaningful. Alan Watts has a lecture where he basically says: imagine if, every night, you could dream any dream you wanted. You could dream and entire lifetime every night. You would start dreaming crazy, pampered, rich lives, but eventually even these would get boring. Then you would start dreaming average lives, or lives of suffering, etc, and eventually you would dream of the very life you're living.
It would get boring contemplating the same thing over and over again. It would get boring to know at all times that you are Brahman, supreme, incapable of nothing, able to project anything at will. Wouldn't you, as Brahman, just want to live an endless variety of 'lives', and reach the highest highs and lowest lows of all possible experience, in all possible worlds, etc etc.