Been reading my favorite Shakespeare play (I have many favorite Shakespeare plays!), The Tempest. These words echo the words of many of our guides, especially Guru Nanak and Guru Tegh Bahadur. Quotes from Guru Tegh Bahadur in another post.
Guru Nanak says: jag supnaa baajee banee khin meh khayl khaylaa-ay.
The
world is a drama, staged in a dream. In a moment, the play is played out.
He also says:
The
drama of the world is staged like the show of a buffoon. For an instant, for a moment, the show is seen,
but it disappears in no time at all.
Nanak:
for whom should we mourn, O Baba? This world is merely a play.
He
Himself created this world, and staged this wondrous play.
From THE TEMPEST
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
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