歌词
If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black
Implies white, self implies other
Life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?)
You can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world
Not as something here on probation
Not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you
Can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental
What you are basically
Deep deep down, far far in
Is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself
So say in Hindu mythology
They say that the world is the drama of God
God is not something in Hindu mythology with a white beard
That sits on a throne and that has royal prerogatives
God in Indian mythology is the self
Satcitananda, which means
Sat - that which is
Cit - that which is consciousness
That which is ananda is bliss
And in other words
What exists - reality itself - is gorgeous
It is the plenum, the fullness of total joy
Wow
And all those stars if you look out in the sky
A firework display like you see on the Fourth of July
Which is a great occasion for celebration
The universe is a celebration
It's a firework show to celebrate that existence is
Wow
And then they say, but, however
There's no point just sustaining bliss
Let's suppose that you were able, every night to dream any
Dream you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example
Have the power within one night to dream 75 years
Of time, or any length of time you wanted to have
And you would, naturally
As you began on this adventure of
Dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes
You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive
And after several nights of 75 years
Of total pleasure each you would say
"Well that was pretty great
But now let's have a surprise
Let's have a dream which isn't under control
Where something is gonna happen to me
That I don't know what it's gonna be"
And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say
"Wow that was a close shave, wasn't it?"
Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would
Make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream
And finally, you would dream where you are now
You would dream the dream of living the
Life that you are actually living today
That would be within the infinite
Multiplicity of choices you would have
Of playing that you weren't God
Because the whole nature of the godhead
According to this idea, is to play that he is not
The first thing he says to himself is
"Man get lost"
Because he gives himself away
The nature of love is self abandonment
Not clinging to one's self
Throwing yourself out
As for example in basketball
You're always getting rid of the ball
You say to the other fellow
"Have a ball"
See, and that keeps things moving
That's the nature of life
So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality
Not God in a politically kingly sense
But god in the sense of being the self
The deep-down basic whatever there is
And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not