Samsara

[Erthona]

Milo wrote: " As I researched the river, I was drawn to the practice of dumping bodies in the river to stop the cycle. As a westerner, I am drawn to the irony of a practice celebrating the source of life by killing it."

Thanks. Yes, I vaguely remember studying that at some point, something to do with an elephant first standing on four legs, which is Brahman, then removing a leg as time passes until Shiva the destroyer crashes everything and then the cycle starts over again. So I guess in some kind of weird way, if one is toward the unstable end of the cycle, one might wish to further it along to get back to Brahman so to speak. I think I only got interested in studying the Hindu religion because of the Hesse book, which talks a lot about such things as Samsara, since Siddhartha's father, at least in Hesse's book was a Hindu priest, but you've read it I'm sure. Looking at it in the respect of the Hindu cycle, I guess a villanelle is really not a bad choice, but better you than me

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