Kagga 18
D. V. Gundappa · 1887–1975 · from the Kannada original
Transliteration
nadiya tereyavOluruLi horaLutiruvudu jIvamodalilla mugivilla niluvillavadakebadukEnu savEnu sodeyEnu viSHavEnu?udaka budbudavella -- MANKUTIMMA
Interpretation
Life can be defined as a state of a single continuum
There is no start; there is no end...it is just in a state of motion
Like the waves of a river who roll on without any seeming aim or goal, thus life goes on & on
In this perpetual motion, how does it matter that one takes birth, one dies?
One gets medicine; another poison -- what difference does it make?
Mankutimma, eventually everything in the Universe is like a water bubble
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