The Movie experience

Trying to decode complex problems into simple solutions is our constant effort.There are many unanswered questions or incomplete explanations which have been an enigma to us...some of them being What is life? and what is its purpose?

To this questions i have i believe a very good analogy and that is the movie experience.

Our life is a sum of our emotions..everyday we pass through the same emotions.. we are happy, dejected ,mirth and laughter , despair and hopelessnes,full of extreme confidence ,a caring and loving feel for others and enimity for some others..these are our emotions and this is our life.
One day say we go to a good movie,the first time we watch it we go through the emotions of the actors..it laughs we laugh ..it cries we cry ..atleast in the emotional plane though not physically(some of us can't even help this.. :-( ).Seeing the movie second time again may take us to the same emotional plane but we start understanding some more things..some dialogues we ignored first time,some actions we didn't see..see it the third time..the emotional us reduces and our mind wanders around for other reasons.."How did the director get that idea?" ,"Why did the cameraman took in that angle?" and questions like that..watching it again questions creep "how does the film technology work?","How do they maintain a audio video sync?"..like this watching the same movie again and again will take us to a stage from being a emotional experience to another state..where we know that we all go through the same emotions and that is nothing new in them ..the inquistive us wakens up finally.

This is what is the difference between the common people and the learned sages...one aspires to become good actors and the other director.To think that they have no desires is a big fat lie..they want to be the directors,a goal which can't be percieved when we are still watching the movie the first time.

when the sacred books(upanishads,geeta..) say to leave desire it doesn't mean to become beggars and wander around ..but to become a hero..where these emotions don't affect our understanding and we move ahead by the usage of our weapon(mind).