Shiva Sutra 3.11: Surrender the Sequels

Imagine a projector in a movie theater shining it’s light onto the screen in front of you. You don’t see the projector, or the light streaming through the air, you only see the shapes on the screen. We react to the actors, and the drama projected in front of us— and it seems like a miracle, but the actors we watch the most keep getting more and more lines in this movie of our life. Good, bad, or ugly— the roles we identify with on the screen keep getting bigger and bigger parts. The Shiva Sutras tell us that this is because the projector is not behind us, but within us. And these actors are reading the very lines that we are writing for them, in real time. In this way, we see that we are writing this movie of our lives, and if we want to breathe some fresh life into it, this Sutra teaches, we must step back from the re-acting process and let this movie start to develop more naturally. As we learn to step back from the screen of our mind and senses we can allow our lives to play out in a more natural way. This doesn’t mean the movie stops, far from it, in fact yogis tell us through the generations that this is the only way to finally let the movie of our life play out to it’s highest fruition. Welcome to Shiva Sutra 3.11, The Senses are the Spectators. 

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