This Life, This Incarnation Poem by Ananta Madhavan
This Life, This Incarnation
At college a friend who liked chit-chat
Dropped into my room one day.
He seemed a bit dejected,
No surprise, with the exams looming;
"Only one life", he exclaimed,
"And if it goes wrong, what a waste!
A kind of Russian roulette really."
I replied half in earnest, half sarcastic,
"No wonder we Hindus like to take
Another chance through reincarnation,
Even as an ant".
blighting life.
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Re-birth or reincarnation is called 'punar-janmam' in old Sanskrit lore. But the individual cannot choose where, when, which family, in what circumstances, the new 'janmam' will occur. The ideal of mystic Hinduism is to be 'liberated' from the repeated cycle of birth-suffering-joy- death and 'realise' one-ness with the Supreme.