LET DOWN BY THE DUO, LET DOWN

LET DOWN BY THE DUO, LET DOWN 

My two student-disciples have let me down. Would it were otherwise, how lovely life would have been! But the traffic of routine work and aspired-for puerile pastimes make a heavy call on them and keep them away. Life, if even long, is short-lived after all and passes away like a flicker, 'a candle in the wind', a la Diana whom none held as his own but who withered away, forlorn like the fallen leaf of a winter song. Spring freshens anew and the buds blossom, the flora of life fills the air with fragrance fair, but every passing year draws the veil on the shimmering past, shrouding it in memory that fades even as life rushes on towards its inevitable end. But there is a deeper life that eludes vision, a current of the Life that is everlasting, where space has vanished and time frozen to a standstill, where thoughts have gathered, coalesced and become one as Consciousness Absolute. There in solitary existence lies the Being, prostrate as Shiva while Kāli dances over Him in dynamic mode, the gunas playing their permutating, combining game in myriad minds, now broken by apparent partitions in a wondrous web magically weaved. There lies hope as yet, there lies rest. But for the surface beams, they scatter and break into insignificant particles of passing pleasure and persisting pain in this delusive dream of phenomenal life, hardly a life where death so stalks. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose