Passage 14

In English

You don’t need to give up any of your duties. Just discharge your duties. How?

Suppose you are performing the role of a father in a drama. In the drama, you have a son who is afflicted with some disease. You are worried that your son is sick. But, truly speaking, you are not his father and he is not your son; he is not suffering from a disease, and you don’t actually cry. All this is only acting in a drama. Even while crying in the drama, you are very well aware that your name is so and so and you are studying in such and such class. Even while expressing your anxiety about your son’s illness, you are very well aware that he is not your son but a boy from another class. On the stage, you must do correct acting. Even while playing your role to perfection, you don’t forget your actual name.