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ARTICLE : The Wonder of Reincarnation
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Subject: ARTICLE : The Wonder of Reincarnation
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From: "Ramesh C. Kalra" <rckalra@anet.rockwell.com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 15:21:54 PST
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The Wonder of Reincarnation
As a river nears the ocean it looks back at its life. The virgin
snows on mountain-tops that gave birth to it. The lake down below
which was its nursery. The travel through mountain passes where it met
its tributaries and gained adulthood. The solitude and tranquility of
the forests, the singing of the birds, the lush green valleys laden
with wheat, corn and rice. The adventurous ride through cities, gladly
accepting their refuse and sometimes flooding them as if in a fit of
anger. Thousands of experiences and hundreds of memories. And now its
imminent merger into a bigger entity. Its losing of the shores which
defined it and gave it its uniqueness. What a trip!
Merging into the ocean however is just a brief stopover. The
water evaporates leaving behind all its impurities in the ocean, the
clouds drop snow on a different mountain-top, the snow melts and water
feeds into a different river and keeps the never-ending cycle going.
Might nature have fashioned the human life and for that matter
every type of life in the same manner? A life force appearing in its
mortal form, going through its journey, disappearing into a bigger
entity and after being cleansed and rejuvenated, reap pearing at a
different time and at a different place in a new mortal garb. Does
that somehow show us that we should revere the life force within and
not indulge in worshipping the external attributes provided to it by
Providence? Should this shared life force provide for a common bond
between all living beings or should we let ourselves be consumed by
our petty differences? And if we choose the latter, would that not be
an affront to the very essence of nature?
- Ramesh Kalra (madcow@juno.com)
For more write-ups, visit http://www.iastate.edu/~vamsee/ramesh.html
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