Egidijus Bakas completed a master’s degree in acting and taught at the Lithuanian Academy of music and theater. He practices bhakti yoga, participates in educational programs, and is engaged in charity work.
Drama play «The Story of king Puranjan or the soul’s journey through the material world».
The creative process itself took place in an untraditional environment: in a monastery, in a temple, in the country. The play involved 14 professional actors who experienced real spiritual realizations during the production of the play. Moreover, the wisdom of the Scriptures and the creative process began to change the very reality of their lives!
The material of the play is based on events from the Vedic Scriptures of Srimad Bhagavatam. This is the story of the Vedic king Puranjan, which happened 5,000 years ago. The play raises fundamental questions: the state of the soul in the material world, the true nature of the living entity, the oblivion of this nature, and what should be the highest goal of human life.
The performance begins with mantras, turns into plastic visualization and, finally, the action develops into a dynamic dance depicting how the king enjoys life in the city, how merrily he lives with his beautiful wife, satisfying all her whims, how illusory this happiness is. In the end, he abandons her, going to hunt poor animals-this is illustrated by the gruesome scene of killing animals and the Queen’s despair.
Later, the grim reality of the family is depicted: king Puranjan has hundreds of sons and daughters who ravage and plunder the father’s Kingdom. This makes the king tired and desolate – the material life that he himself so longed for, in the end, brings him real suffering. King Puranjana forgot his eternal friend, God, and spent his entire life in the pursuit of sense gratification, but at the moment of death, he loses everything he had.
In this story, king Puranjana represents us, the living entities. He gets into the material world, seduced by the beauty of a woman-the personification of our mind. And since the king was very much attached to his wife, in the next life he gets the body of a woman.
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