I’ve been doing more reflecting than reading of late so have no poem to share today. However, I have been considering one idea I would like to pass along concerning God’s omniscience.

The Hindu belief, if I am understanding it rightly, is that God creates as a form of play, that he takes on different roles and forms, whether it be a person, a rock or a galaxy. This ‘incarnation’ allows Him/Her/It to inhabit any of the many trillion different degrees of consciousness and to enjoy (en-join) a direct understanding and experience of that unique level. What is life lived as a star, as a penguin, as a person?

In this great cosmic drama God is everywhere and everywhen but retains the mask as long as possible to heighten the tension and the reality of the play. If the stakes are not high and seemingly eternal why continue the story.  

But in order to play this game with the gusto it deserves, God must set aside his omniscience, otherwise there would be no “peek-a-boo”, no search for the answer to Who Am I. This setting aside of omniscience is the Great Forgetting, willingly undertaken for re-incarnation, allowing the Creator to come into form again and again and again.

Since we are one of the many roles of God, we have also agreed to forget our Origin, and participate in the Great Game beginners. What do you think?