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BHAKTI-YOGA.
come, it is good fun. If happiness comes, there is more good fun. The world is just a playground, and we are here having a gamehaving God with us playing all the while ! Eternal playmate--how beautifully He is playing! The play is finished when the cycle comes to an end and there is rest for a shorter or longer time. Then again begins the play-again the universe and everything come out and play with Him—and so on it goes! It is only when you forget that it is all play and that you are also helping in this play, that misery and sorrows come, the heart becomes heavy and the world weighs upon you with tremendous power. But as soon as you give up the idea of serious reality, characteristic to us all, in the changing incidents of this life of three minutes, ando know it to be but a stage on which you are playing and helping God to play-at once misery ceases for you. So see Him playing in every atom—playing when He is
