An (assumedly) worthy paragraph to share from my up-coming and still being composed travel narrative, sequel to Memories and Musings of a Post-Postmodern Nomadic Mystic Madman
I
think it might be possible to end up rather a type-cast player (nata)
in this Grand lila
(play), despite
one's latent talents or proclivities to play other more potentially
fitting roles, within the grand scheme of repetitive themes and
mythemes, characters and archetypes called for in whatever production
at play on whatever stage, grand or small. I suppose it takes
something rather quite like moksa
to attain the degree of artistic license to have leave to always and
only play those roles suite one's sensibilities, in this or any
average lifetime lived. Usually one's karma from this or past lives
does dictate and direct the course of the part or parts in the play
one is to play. Those somewhat writ roles pressed upon us, that
while granting due freedom of choice are still to some certain degree
karma that our own past karma (literally “action(s)”) demands.
This cycle of action and consequence and the almost certain suffering
caused is why many leave the pursuit of kama
(desire, family, etc.) and artha (wealth
and fame) to live an ascetic life to focus on dharma
(spiritual duty, literally “keeping things together”), and why
some ascetics endeavor to do naught but to sit and breath in order to
minimize their karmic footprint, so to speak . . .