Sisypos, Odysseus' grandfather, established such a beautiful order and peace in Korinthos that Thanatos, the god of death, had no work to do. He had Thanatos in chains. For this he was punished by Zeus. He was sentenced to roll a rock up a steep and high mountain in Tartaros (Hell). Just as the boulder reached the top, it fell down from the extreme point of the hill, and Sisyphus had to roll it up again, and just as it reached the extreme point of the hill, it fell down again. This endeavor goes on and on forever. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus, who is punished for rolling the rock up the hill in this vicious cycle in hell, symbolizes human intelligence, patience, tireless and endless effort.

No matter how long life may seem, as the days chase each other and the nights are always pregnant with the same thing; as Goethe said: "This life, ladies and gentlemen, is too short for our souls!"

On this planet, which is more like a playful and theatrical stage where the actors change in and out, we human beings (Shakespeare), made of the same material that dreams are made of, will not last forever like Sisyphus, even if we keep playing the roles given to us in the same fiction.

Isn't the fate that appears in the world of reality, the design that everyone observes in the course of their lives, as volatile and foamy as the material from which dreams are made?

When we dream, the unfolding of events, their sequence and content, are like the scenes of a play, as if predetermined, and really seem like an author's design. The fate of each of us is in perfect harmony with the other. Everyone is the hero of their own play, while others are actors, sometimes extras. This is miraculous, even beyond our comprehension.

Just as all the sounds in a composer's symphony are in harmony, juxtaposed and arranged, so are complex human relationships in harmony and harmony, divinely planned, thoughtfully conceived; all this inextricable, Sisyphean life, the multiplicity of appearances, is conditioned by time and space. It is a huge dream, but all personalities are in the dream. Therefore everything is intertwined and in harmony with everything else, it has to be so.

In this great dream of life, there are interrelationships. Everyone not only appears as he should in the other's dream, but also lives the other in the same way as in his own dream. Everyone dreams what is in accordance with his own metaphysical guidelines, and all dreams of life are mutually woven together in a great theatrical or cinematic art. Everyone receives the result of his own work, and does what is necessary for others. Thus a vast world event fulfills thousands of destinies. The diversity of this universe and everything in it is in a relationship with the divine, with the Creator. That is why we are all part of one whole and One. The good and evil we do is our own. Everything we resent, praise, love, hate is also Us...

They are actually 'We'. We take part in thousands of lives in the universe. In millions of lives. All we have to do is choose to see.

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber