Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
lackpurity
MM:
They're about to start the play, similar to what actually happened.
This is my second commentary on Act 3, Scene 2.
Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work?
LORD POLONIUS
And the queen too, and that presently.
HAMLET
Bid the players make haste.
Exit POLONIUS
Will you two help to hasten them?
ROSENCRANTZ GUILDENSTERN
We will, my lord.
MM:
St. Paul said "edify one another."
Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
HAMLET
What ho! Horatio!
Enter HORATIO
HORATIO
Here, sweet lord, at your service.
MM:
Horatio loves his Master, Hamlet.
HAMLET
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal.
HORATIO
O, my dear lord,--
HAMLET
Nay, do not think I flatter;
For what advancement may I hope from thee
That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,
MM:
The Master will take care of all our karmic debts, if we will attend
to Sat Guru Bhakti
and Shabd Bhakti.
HAMLET continues:
To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?
MM:
We are helpless, mainly due to our ego, so more flattery would be
defeating the Master's
purpose.
HAMLET continues:
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
MM:
We fawn before the greatness of the Master, then we lay up treasure in
heaven. This
sounds very much like the words of Christ, IMO.
HAMLET continues:
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
And could of men distinguish, her election
Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been
As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,
MM:
IOW, the Master, Hamlet, has chosen Horatio to go to the True Home.
Then he discusses
concepts which are really beyond the intellect. The reference to
"election," sounds
very much like the Bible, Christ, and early Christianity. We came
from God, God suffers
all, yet suffers nothing. We can't comprehend that, yet it is true.
HAMLET continues:
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
MM:
Mind and body must be attuned to God's will, then we invoke God's
grace, which is the
same as Master's grace.
HAMLET continues:
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.
MM:
Very beautiful and full of meaning. "Fortune's finger," really means
Satan. Satan
administers our karmas to us. So, he's saying to conquer Satan, by
virtue of Sat Guru
Bhakti. Without the Master, we merely dance to whatever tune Satan
plays. Shakespeare
hints that we should regain our mind and soul, which are now under the
influence of
Satan, as prisoners.
HAMLET continues:
Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.--Something too much of this.--
MM:
More emphasis on the qualities of a good disciple.
HAMLET continues:
There is a play to-night before the king;
One scene of it comes near the circumstance
Which I have told thee of my father's death:
I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
Even with the very comment of thy soul
Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
It is a damned ghost that we have seen,
And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcan's stithy.
MM:
Very important. Shakespeare says that he has been in touch with the
Inner Master
(deceased King Hamlet). Then, he says, if what the King said is true,
then the reaction
of King Claudius would be noticeable. If not, then it means his
vision was of Satan,
and not worthy of reliance.
This has to do with the spiritual journey. If we have a Master to
guide us, then we
will not be led astray by Satan. Otherwise, Satan easily tempts us
and misleads us.
HAMLET continues:
Give him heedful note;
For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
MM:
When Shakespeare went "inside," by meditation, he riveted his eyes on
Christopher
Marlowe's Radiant Form. This is known as Dhyan in Sant Mat.
HAMLET continues:
And after we will both our judgments join
In censure of his seeming.
MM:
Ultimately, the disciple's judgment becomes ONE with the Master's
judgment. All lower desires are CENSURED.
HORATIO
Well, my lord:
If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
MM:
An indirect way of saying that Masters pay the karmas of their
disciples. He uses every opportunity to hammer home the Sant Mat
teachings.
HAMLET
They are coming to the play; I must be idle:
Get you a place.
Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE,
POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others
KING CLAUDIUS
How fares our cousin Hamlet?
HAMLET
Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat
the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.
MM:
He had faith in the promises of his Master. Sat Guru Bhakti. What
does the Master promise? God-Realization. Then, he says, "you can't
feed capons (castrated chickens) so." The worldly will not want to
have faith in the Master.
KING CLAUDIUS
I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words
are not mine.
HAMLET
No, nor mine now.
MM:
He was ordered to speak by God, apparently.
To POLONIUS
My lord, you played once i' the university, you say?
LORD POLONIUS
That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor.
HAMLET
What did you enact?
LORD POLONIUS
I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the
Capitol; Brutus killed me.
MM:
This is very important. VERY IMPORTANT. According to my MUSES,
Shakespeare was JULIUS CAESAR in a past life. This is the reason that
he knows a lot about ITALY. Of course, this runs contrary to Anti-
Stratfordians, who think it must have been an Aristocrat, such as
Edward de Vere, who went to Italy to learn about it. Shakespeare knew
the truth about Italy and its Masters, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and
Marc Antony. This is an exclusive from the Western Sat Guru. Others
might plagiarize this, so use your own discretion, regarding my
revelation of this all-important truth.
HAMLET
It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf
there. Be the players ready?
MM:
The "lamb of God," as was Jesus Christ, also? Yes, I think so.
ROSENCRANTZ
Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.
MM:
We stay at our own levels, until the Master is pleased to invoke his
grace, and lift us up.
QUEEN GERTRUDE
Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.
HAMLET
No, good mother, here's metal more attractive.
LORD POLONIUS
[To KING CLAUDIUS] O, ho! do you mark that?
HAMLET
Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Lying down at OPHELIA's feet
OPHELIA
No, my lord.
HAMLET
I mean, my head upon your lap?
OPHELIA
Ay, my lord.
HAMLET
Do you think I meant country matters?
MM:
He's discussing spirituality. Should he be her Master? Should he
manifest himself in her mind?
OPHELIA
I think nothing, my lord.
HAMLET
That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
MM:
We need to stop thinking, still the mind. When nothing intervenes
then we can go to higher planes. The Master is really "nothing," as
he is unmanifested in Anami Desh, so this is a play on words. He is
"nothing" at the highest level, but a man at this level, in this
instance. It also signifies that we should be receptive to the
Master, we shouldn't fight him, nor reject him. This is called
"submission," or "Sat Guru Bhakti.
OPHELIA
What is, my lord?
HAMLET
Nothing.
OPHELIA
You are merry, my lord.
HAMLET
Who, I?
OPHELIA
Ay, my lord.
HAMLET
O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do
but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my
mother looks, and my father died within these two hours.
MM:
God is the director of this play. Hamlet says not to become too
emotional over anything, although it is much easier said than done.
OPHELIA
Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.
HAMLET
So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for
I'll have a suit of sables.
MM:
Our two choices. Follow the Master, or follow Satan.
HAMLET continues:
O heavens! die two
months ago, and not forgotten yet?
MM:
He hints how attached we are to the world.
HAMLET continues:
Then there's
hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half
a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches,
then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with
the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O,
the hobby-horse is forgot.'
MM:
We go from dust to dust. Our memory fades away very quickly. We are
soon forgotten. Build churches. How? By meditation. The real
church is inside us, "The temple of God," according to the Bible.
Master Shakespeare tells us that ALL our friends, relatives,
possessions, etc., are like toys. They are given to us by Satan, and
then they are taken back by him. Should we be happy with toys?
Should we toss them aside, and go for the real thing, the Holy Spirit,
which is ETERNAL and leads to the True Home? I think that is the
choice of wise men and women.
To Be Continued
Michael Martin
Western Sat Guru
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MM:
This is my third commentary on Act 3, Scene 2.
Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters
Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and
he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes
her up, and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down upon a bank
of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a
fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's
ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King dead, and makes
passionate action. The Poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes
in again, seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away.
The Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts: she seems loath and unwilling
awhile, but in the end accepts his love
Exeunt
OPHELIA
What means this, my lord?
HAMLET
Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
OPHELIA
Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
Enter Prologue
HAMLET
We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot
keep counsel; they'll tell all.
OPHELIA
Will he tell us what this show meant?
HAMLET
Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you
ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.
OPHELIA
You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.
Prologue
For us, and for our tragedy,
Here stooping to your clemency,
We beg your hearing patiently.
Exit
HAMLET
Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
OPHELIA
'Tis brief, my lord.
HAMLET
As woman's love.
MM:
Worldly love is fickle. Men can be fickle, also. We should attach
ourselves to something real and lasting, the Shabd, Nam, or Holy
Spirit, by meditation.
Enter two Players, King and Queen
Player King
Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round
Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,
And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen
About the world have times twelve thirties been,
Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands
Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
MM:
Love can be mental (hearts) or physical (Hymen.)
Player Queen
So many journeys may the sun and moon
Make us again count o'er ere love be done!
MM:
Actually, true love transcends the mind and the body, as in Sat Guru
Bhakti. It is ETERNAL.
PLAYER QUEEN continues:
But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
So far from cheer and from your former state,
That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:
For women's fear and love holds quantity;
In neither aught, or in extremity.
Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;
And as my love is sized, my fear is so:
MM:
If we love something "sized," then it will be on lower levels. If we
love the omnipresent, unlimited Master, then we become ONE with the
Creator. Quantity also connotes limitations. The goal of Sant Mat is
the unlimited Supreme Being.
PLAYER QUEEN continues:
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
MM:
Very beautiful and full of profound spiritual meaning. If we have
great love for the Master, then our fears and doubts are little. It
would be a high degree of Sat Guru Bhakti. Those who have little
fear, do not have a clue regarding the Master. If they knew he was
God, or had some clue of it, then they would have a certain amount of
fear, especially FEAR OF OFFENDING HIM. If we have such a fear of
offending the Master, then GREAT LOVE will grow there. It will grow
out of the humility. The humility will help us to pierce the eye of
the needle, and to reach transcendent realms within us. Many are
called, but few are chosen to go to the True Home? Why? Because most
people will not have sufficient Bhakti to enter the True Home. When
they become pure enough, the Master will be happy to escort them into
the True Home.
Player King
'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;
My operant powers their functions leave to do:
And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind
For husband shalt thou--
Player Queen
O, confound the rest!
Such love must needs be treason in my breast:
In second husband let me be accurst!
None wed the second but who kill'd the first.
HAMLET
[Aside] Wormwood, wormwood.
Player Queen
The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love:
A second time I kill my husband dead,
When second husband kisses me in bed.
Player King
I do believe you think what now you speak;
But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory,
MM:
We carry subconscious memories or sanskaras (impressions) of our past
lives. These tend to push us towards our purposes. Some of us have
been with Saints in past lives, but others have been very worldly, so
our course could be within those extremes.
PLAYER KING continues:
Of violent birth, but poor validity;
Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;
MM:
As I wrote, earlier, we have to become pure enough to enter the True
Home. If we are not pure enough, it is like a fruit which is unripe.
We would be sticking to the world, if we are unripe. We need to
follow the Master's instructions attend to the meditation, then we can
become detached and merge into the Holy Spirit, Shabd, or Nam.
PLAYER KING continues:
But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.
MM:
When we become ready, or pure enough, then spiritual progress becomes
easy.
PLAYER KING continues:
Most necessary 'tis that we forget
To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt:
MM:
We really owe it to ourselves to follow a Master. That is the purpose
of the human form. If we don't, then we are just wasting a golden
opportunity, one which might not come again for millions of years.
PLAYER KING continues:
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
MM:
What passion? We can have worldly passions, or we can have desire for
Sat Guru Bhakti? Either way, we will die, so it behooves us to lay up
treasure in heaven, while we are alive. We won't be able to take
people, places, and things with us, at the time of death, so we should
start detaching ourselves, now, by meditation. The passion for Shabd,
Nam, or Holy Spirit, never dies. It is forever, as Christ said.
PLAYER KING continues:
The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy:
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
MM:
The more we love the world, the more we are set up to suffer. We will
have to leave it behind, one day.
PLAYER KING continues:
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
MM:
In this world, we experience a mixture of karmas. Sometimes, we are
sad, but that can be followed by happiness or joy. Sometimes, we are
joyful, but this can easily be followed by sadness. So, this world is
unpredictable for us. We are dancing to Satan's tunes. He is sending
us joy or sadness, depending on our karmas. We need to find a Master,
to extricate us from his prison. Shakespeare compares this world,
which is bipolar compared to the higher regions, which are always
ecstatic and blissful. Which do we choose?
PLAYER KING continues:
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change;
MM:
Master Shakespeare tells us that our love is conditioned and fickle.
Since we are under the influence of mind, and mind has lost all
recollection of the True Home, it is flying from one flower to
another, like a butterfly looking for nectar. It is looking for
happiness in all the wrong places, unless it finally decides to follow
a Master.
This, also, explains why some disciples have a lot of love for the
Master, but others have lots of doubts. It is all due to past karmas
and sanskaras. We have to learn how to love. We have to detach
ourselves, thus allowing mind to become pure, by meditation. In the
beginning, we might have a very inferior type of love, but bhakti can
become purer and purer, by meditation.
PLAYER KING continues:
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
MM:
Very beautiful. Will our Bhakti overcome our destiny? Or, will our
destiny (worldly tendencies) conquer our love for the Master. It is a
test. Those who pass the test will be admitted to the True Home.
Those who remain in love with the world, will have to wait until they
become purer, pure enough to pass the test.
PLAYER KING continues:
The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
MM:
Very beautiful. This reminds me of a Biblical quote, "First can be
the last, and last can be the first."
A great man might be less advanced than another man, but if he has
faith in his Master, thinking that he FLIES to higher regions, then he
might pass him (the other man), eventually. If the advanced man makes
friends of the worldly, becoming like them, then he might fall down.
So, the relative status could be reversed. Shakespeare was so kind to
point this out to us.
PLAYER KING continues:
And hitherto doth love on fortune tend;
For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his enemy.
MM:
Our love is mixed with ego, in the beginning. Those who become
desireless, will always have the Master within them. They will never
lack a friend. What is a "hollow friend?" It is a False Master. He
has no real spirituality, and is just a prisoner of Satan, himself.
He, having not conquered his mind, would turn out to be our enemy.
PLAYER KING continues:
But, orderly to end where I begun,
Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown;
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:
MM:
We came from God, and we will return to God, either by following a
Master, now, or by a coming dissolution, which might come in many ages
to come. What are "our devices?" They are our mind, our capability
of loving. We might love the Master with an inferior type of love, as
I mentioned previously, but mind has the habit of sinning, so the
lower mind sometimes defeats the higher mind. We have to keep up the
good fight with the mind, until it becomes submissive and well-
trained. Saints have achieved that. They should be our role-models.
The last line means that we might have evil thoughts, but these
thoughts might take us to hell, if we carry out the actions. There
are many in Hell, as I write this. They didn't particularly want to
go to Hell, but they are there. They are undergoing punishments for
sins, which began as evil thoughts.
PLAYER KING continues:
So think thou wilt no second husband wed;
But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
MM:
Shakespeare means that only need ONE MASTER. If he dies, we don't
need to find another Master. He will meet us within, in his Radiant
Form and take us HOME. It would behoove us, if when the Master dies,
we can be able to withdraw to his level, at least, on the Astral
Plane. St. Paul said that Christ was there, after his crucifixion, in
his celestial body. So, Shakespeare says to still the mind, and reach
the Master within us.
Player Queen
Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light!
MM:
Total detachment, is what Shakespeare recommends. This will result in
a STILL mind, and then progress will be made.
PLAYER QUEEN continues:
Sport and repose lock from me day and night!
MM:
We should be totally detached and desireless, day and night. Mind
needs to be STILL.
PLAYER QUEEN continues:
To desperation turn my trust and hope!
MM:
It's intense longing, or bireh. To whom do we turn? To the Master,
of course. When we reach a certain level of longing, then the All-
Merciful will respond. Christ said, "Knock, and it shall open."
PLAYER QUEEN continues:
An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope!
MM:
This indicates how hapless we are. We are anchored to this physical
world, with our low desires. Our scope is very limited, vis-a-vis,
the Master's scope, which is unlimited. How could an anchor be
cheerful, for it has no freedom?
PLAYER QUEEN continues:
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
Meet what I would have well and it destroy!
MM:
A blank mind is a still mind. She tells the Master to destroy or
nullify her worldly desires.
PLAYER QUEEN continues:
Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
If, once a widow, ever I be wife!
MM:
Very beautiful. It means that once we follow or get initiated by a
particular Master, he would always be the object of our Bhakti, even
if he has died. We can get inspiration from the successor, no doubt,
but nobody will take the place of one's Guru. We should look for that
first Guru on the inner planes. He will take all his disciples to the
True Home. Shakespeare has used the husband/wife analogy to hammer
home the Sant Mat teachings. He uses every opportunity.
HAMLET
If she should break it now!
MM:
If we do betray our Master, then what?
Player King
'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile;
My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep.
MM:
God takes the Master/Disciple relationship very seriously. That is
why Shakespeare says it is "deeply sworn." If we betray our Master,
then we might be punished. We would be running the risk of a
punishment, at least.
Sleeps
Player Queen
Sleep rock thy brain,
And never come mischance between us twain!
Exit
MM:
Shakespeare implores us to not allow mischance to enter in our Sat
Guru Bhakti.
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You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.
Prologue
For us, and for our tragedy,
Here stooping to your clemency,
We beg your hearing patiently.
Exit
HAMLET
Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
OPHELIA
'Tis brief, my lord.
MM:
The prologue is about our tragedy, i.e. separation from the True Home,
and how to get back to it. We stoop to the clemency of the Master.
Nobody else has the power to take us HOME. We are beggars before him,
and we must adjust to his patience. He knows best.
Hamlet (Shakespeare) then hints regarding his own cryptic writing. Is
this a prologue, or a gift? Iniation by a Master is always a gift of
God, because nobody really is worthy of it. That's easily known by
Saints.
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MM:
This is my fourth commentary on Act 3, Scene 2.
HAMLET
Madam, how like you this play?
QUEEN GERTRUDE
The lady protests too much, methinks.
MM:
In the play, the Queen Player had mentioned that she would ever be a
wife, and that no mischance should come between a husband and wife.
The Queen Player was really discussing how to be a good disciple, or a
good wife. Queen Gertrude knows that she collaborated with King
Claudius to murder King Hamlet. She might be feeling guilty, so she
says that the Queen Player "protests too much." She is not
protesting, she is just extolling a good moral life. Queen Gertrude
has failed in that regard, however, and now she has the karma of
murdering her husband and marrying the other murderer, King Claudius.
HAMLET
O, but she'll keep her word.
MM:
Master Shakespeare is really telling us that a good disciple will
always remain faithful to his/her Master. Betrayal wouldn't even be
considered by such a disciple.
KING CLAUDIUS
Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't?
MM:
All right, this is very important. We can argue with the Master to a
certain extent. He knows we are children, and he will feed us baby
food, but we should NEVER OFFEND the Master. To offend the Master,
would be running the risk of God's wrath, for the Master is dear to
him, as his SON.
HAMLET
No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence
i' the world.
MM:
Sometimes, a child will tell his Mommy or Daddy, "I hate you."
Parents will know that it is just jesting, or in jest. Similarly,
Master knows when we are just acting stupid, or we are really being
hateful. He (Hamlet) has been discussing good disciples, and he
doesn't take offense at the ignorance of otherwise good disciples.
KING CLAUDIUS
What do you call the play?
HAMLET
The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically.
MM:
He calls it a Mouse-trap, because he is trying to trap King Claudius
and Queen Gertrude to an admission of the truth, of their guilt in the
murder of his father, King Hamlet.
HAMLET continues:
This play
is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is
the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see
anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o'
that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it
touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our
withers are unwrung.
MM:
Masters are capable of going beyond mind, so they are not so
emotional. Master Hamlet has the King and Queen on a hotseat,
however, and they might be feeling the heat, or you could say that
Hamlet is wringing their withers.
What does Shakespeare mean by "we that have free souls." He is
referring to the Masters. They are free souls. They have escaped
from Satan's prisonhouse by following a Master, and they have become
free. They enjoy their liberty, obviously. So, we can cogitate if we
would like to follow the path which was tread by Marlowe, Shakespeare,
Bacon, Donne, Spenser, Mary Sidney Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, etc.,
etc.? They followed the path of Sant Mat, the Path of the Saints, or
the Path of the Masters.
lackpurity
MM:
This is my fifth commentary on Act 3, Scene 2.
Enter LUCIANUS
This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.
OPHELIA
You are as good as a chorus, my lord.
HAMLET
I could interpret between you and your love, if I
could see the puppets dallying.
MM:
We are all puppets, and God is the puppeteer.
OPHELIA
You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
HAMLET
It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.
MM:
Intense longing will gain us the truth. No pain, no gain.
OPHELIA
Still better, and worse.
MM:
Like I said, no pain, no gain. Lovers have to swim through their own
tears to reach the True Home.
HAMLET
So you must take your husbands.
MM:
Worldly attachments cause us lots of pain. If they would go to the
True Home, also, then Ophelia could feel better about it.
HAMLET continues:
Begin, murderer;
pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:
'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.'
MM:
Sounds like Hamlet is the puppeteer and pulling the strings!
LUCIANUS
Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;
Confederate season, else no creature seeing;
Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,
With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
Thy natural magic and dire property,
On wholesome life usurp immediately.
Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears
HAMLET
He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His
name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in
choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer
gets the love of Gonzago's wife.
OPHELIA
The king rises.
HAMLET
What, frighted with false fire!
QUEEN GERTRUDE
How fares my lord?
LORD POLONIUS
Give o'er the play.
KING CLAUDIUS
Give me some light: away!
All
Lights, lights, lights!
Exeunt all but HAMLET and HORATIO
HAMLET
Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The hart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep:
So runs the world away.
MM:
Everyone makes spiritual progress at the right time, if they are
following a Master. Weeping is a stage, as I just mentioned above,
about swimming through our own tears to reach the True Home.
HAMLET continues:
Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if
the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two
Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a
fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
MM:
If we feel the intense longing, then we will be admitted to the
fellowship of Saints, at the right time. Note that he mentions
"fortunes." It is connected with our destiny, also. Saints come to
collect the "marked souls," or "allotted sheep."
HORATIO
Half a share.
HAMLET
A whole one, I.
For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
This realm dismantled was
Of Jove himself; and now reigns here
A very, very--pajock.
MM:
God, i.e. Jove, rules from the highest plane, but he is manifested as
a man/woman, also, as a Sat Guru.
HORATIO
You might have rhymed.
HAMLET
O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a
thousand pound. Didst perceive?
HORATIO
Very well, my lord.
HAMLET
Upon the talk of the poisoning?
HORATIO
I did very well note him.
HAMLET
Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders!
For if the king like not the comedy,
Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy.
Come, some music!
MM:
So, I suppose we'll discuss the King's reaction, next time.