Kagga 91
D. V. Gundappa · 1887–1975 · from the Kannada original
Transliteration
kamalavudayadoLaraLi sanjeyali muguLAgisumavappudante maruvagalu muguLdantuamita prapanchanAkunchnAvartanakramave vishvacharitre -- MANKUTIMMA
Interpretation
The Universe is not just infinite; but is also perenially dynamic.
A lotus blooms at sunrise on coming in contact with the first rays of the sun...with the last rays at sunset it contracts...then again next morning it blooms in full glory and again contracts at sunset...and so on
So, the lotus is not dead in evening...it is just lying dormant ready to bloom again as soon as it comes in contact with the source of energy
Mankutimma, the nature of the Universe is also such...while on a micro-level, the lives of the beings in the Universe are finite with a birth & a death somewhere, a happiness & a sorrow somewhere, a motion & a rest somewhere...at a macro-level, the Universe in its entirety doesn't have either a start point of time/space nor does it have an end point of time/space. It just has an all-pervading energy that makes the Universe perenially dynamic
Did this poetry & its translation speak to you?