God in Disguise - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

If a

Beautiful lady should say to me

I love you

And I were to reply

Are you serious or are you just playing with me

That would be quite the wrong response

Because I hope she’s not serious

And that she will play with me

I should say are you sincere

Or are you just toying

Because you see the word play

Has many different senses

A person who is playing the organ in church

Is certainly not doing something trivial

When you go to see a play called Hamlet

You’re not seeing something trivial

When the concert artist plays

Mozart

He is certainly entertaining you

But it’s not a trivial entertaining

But on the other hand, we would use play in a

Quite a different sense

When we mean just fooling around

Doing it for kicks

Kicks

Doing it for kicks

Doing it for kicks

So, it is fundamental as a matter of fact to both the Hindu and the Christian

tradition

That the universe is the play of God

But the Christian thinks of it in the terms of a

Construction play

Like building blocks

The Hindu thinks of it as dramatic play

Of the actual participation of the Godhead

In the creation

So, that every being whatsoever

Is God in disguise

Doing it for kicks

God in disguise

Kicks

God in disguise

Doing it for kicks

God in disguise

Doing it for kicks

Doing it for kicks

God in disguise

Kicks

God in disguise

Doing it for kicks

God in disguise

Doing it for kicks