The cycle
of physical birth and death
         despite variance
         amongst different species
remains a subset
of a larger cycle of Nature

In the journey of
the human cycle
from birth to death
we are busy
producing, consuming,
acquiring, dumping
creating, procreating
building, destroying
          … and rebuilding …
eventually
leaving something behind
good, bad, or ugly
for the next generation
to inherit.

What is bestowed
reflects
individuality
in the form of
achievements or failures
within the governing
norms and customs
of the social environs
where the individual lived.

Such is the game plan
of Prakriti and Purusha
that innumerable civilizations
have come and gone
and man is still wandering
here, there, everywhere
in understanding
the greater cycle of Nature.

Is it all pre-scripted?

Or, perhaps, it is
the gravitational pull and push
eternally perpetuating
in the cosmos
with its own
systematic
yet incomprehensible plan
encompassing all laws
of physics and chemistry
in the form of
Sattva, Rajas and Tamas
as the trinity
of creation, sustenance and destruction
manifesting eternally
from the unknown Energy
that has countless names

No wonder
Amma called this
a mere play
the inexorable Leela
 

Continued to:  Quest

Read also: Leela | Amma's Gospel 
 

Illustration by Niloufer Wadia