Eternity Game:Joy

The Eternity Game

The Great Meditations

“A step, and all is sky and God.”    (Collected Poems, p.542)</ref>

Here we come to the last series of cards in the Eternity Game, and we have to remember that they can be approached by the mind of man even less than the other powers of our play. Only a deep meditation leading to an inner becoming can liberate us from the clutches of a superficial mechanical thought process and its rational logic. We have to get rid of our heaviness if we want to climb those last summits of being with their beauty and powers. Wonder will become intimacy before all the secrets can dissolve in their paradox and all movements come to rest in the eternal play of a god-child.

“There is the mystic realm whence leaps the power

Whose fire burns in the eyes of seer and sage”      (Savitri, p.627)

JOY

The great German mystic Meister Eckhart recommended to his disciples,

“You must not only feel the joy, you must yourself be the joy.”

Wherever we meet with joy and identify with it, whether it is a bird's song or a child's laugh, a flower blossoming or a star shining, we can feel the joy as our own. We start living in another universe, and joy unveils a reality that is a continuous, unending

miracle

the miracle of sunshine and of rain, the delight of breathing, the delight of a fruit, the wonder of meeting a friend, – all of which form part of an endless fairy-tale we will live in when we open ourselves to joy. The kingdom of which Jesus spoke is a kingdom of joy, and we can exercise our kingship in it once we live in that mantle of

sovereignty

which joy has laid upon our shoulders.

What is needed in order to enter our heritage of joy is to pass through a simple open gate:

gratitude

grateful recognition of the daily gifts which life brings, gratitude to our ancestors, to our teachers, to the animals who teach us about joy; gratitude to the flowers, and gratitude for being and becoming joy without end.