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Being a sport means you are willing to

play. Willing to play means you are
involved or alive to the situation in which
you exist, and that is the essence of life. If
there is anything that is truly close to a
spiritual process, in the normal course of
life, that is sports. Swami Vivekananda
went to the extent of saying, “In kicking a
ball or playing a game, you are much
closer to the Divine than you will ever be
in prayer.” Because you can pray without
involvement, but you cannot play sports
without involvement, and involvement is
the essence of life.

Whenever we involve ourselves in what

we do, the ugly part is that people get
entangled. When they get entangled, they
feel ugly within themselves, and they will
make sure everybody else has a taste of it
too. So the fundamental of any sport or
game takes care of this — that is, if you
want to play a game, you must have the
fire of wanting to win but also the balance
to see that, “If I lose, it is okay with me.”
You never play a game to lose, you
always play a game to win, but if you
lose, it is all right with you. If you

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maintain this fundamental with every
aspect of life, you are a sport. And that’s
all the world expects from you, that you
are a sport. Wherever you are, whatever
you are doing, whatever kind of situation
you are in, you are still a sport.

The sacredness of a sporting event is that

individuals rise beyond their limitations,
achieving a state of abandon that is
usually known only at the peak of
spirituality. Thus, sports have always been
a part of Isha, all our programs have an
element of play – as to play is to live, and
to live is to play.

Love & Grace,

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