by C.V.Rajan

Created on: November 25, 2010

If you can wake up after a good night sleep

Can't you take birth after a good long life?

While sleep is death for a brief period of time

Death is sleep for a long period of time.

So say Hindu saints for whom soul is eternal

It's just the body that perishes in the funeral;

The soul is left with with samskaras and vasanas

The former is impressions, the later, latent desires.

Tills samskaras are erased and vasanas satiated

The soul needs re-birth, life in world reinitiated.

Going in circles, not knowing the root cause

The soul goes on, till a search within causes a pause.

Waking up at last to the hopelessness of it all

In the endless search in the ever delusive mall

The soul longs for uniting with Truth

Breaking the thread of life after death.

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