{In this poem I have tried to synthesize the modern day scientific findings with the narrative of a scripture.}
Hark the footsteps of impending destruction
By natural calamities or affliction
Or man made tools of annihilation
Headed are we to mass extinction.
-Five times we perished and resurrected
-In this interminable cycle
-Of creation, doom and resurrection
-Asserts the scientist, making prediction
-It would be sixth mass extinction.
Amazing are scripture's revelations
Measuring the immeasurable cosmic age
Each resurrected origin to doomed extinction
A cosmic day on Kalpa's time scale
Each extinction culminating a cosmic day
Whence all life ceases to be or vanishes
Resting in subsumed silent stillness
In a state of barren nothingness
Life writhes out of dormant non existence
Resurrecting itself and heralding
Dawn of a new cosmic day
A new sequence of fourteen manvantaras
A new Kalpa to lead unto next extinction.
-Creation to doom to resurrection
-An interminable cosmic days succession
-Defining the indefinable
-Infinity of cosmic age.
The theme of the poem is unique and has much within itself to communicate to us about. The comparison of the Kalpa concept and that of the scientific revelations on the the origin of the universe and its expansion has, however a distinct disparity. The Kalpa is a divine design perceived whereas what the Big Bang speaks of has no divine intervention. Thank you sir for this sharing.
An interesting interpetation of the threatened sixth mass extinction. Well done.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
An interesting poem arousing curiosity and wonder! So, are we heading for a mass extinction? Many occurrences around can be seen as a premonition to that! Can human brain stretch back to aeons or stretch forward to cosmic ages! Reading this, I feel like a puzzled child at the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe! Anyway the striking parallel about mass extinction between what the Hindu scriptures say and what the scientists predict is amazing! A mind boggling write, Sir!