Human beings are like actors on a stage The Vedas explain that
the human beings in this material world are like actors on a
stage, performing under the direction of a superior. Onstage,
one actor may play the role of a master, and another may play
the role of his servant, but they are both actually the servants
of the director. In the same way, all living entities are the
servants of the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna. Their roles as
masters and servants in the material world are temporary and
imaginary. Jada Bharata compared the mind to a flame in a lamp.
"When the flame burns the wick improperly, the lamp is blackened
with soot. But when the lamp is filled with clarified butter and
the flame burns properly, the lamp produces brilliant
illumination. The mind absorbed in material life brings endless
suffering in the cycle of reincarnation, but when the mind is
used to cultivate spiritual knowledge, it brings about the
original brightness of spiritual life." All of these bodies are
like the bodies we experience in