Gap Filling

Sambhavami yugé, yugé, says the Gita: God will come back again and again. What for? Of course to protect the virtuous And destroy the evil doers. Déjà vu! The Jews seem to wait for the same end. That’s what 'The Second Coming’ means, too. Thus, a belief system, whether born in a Desert Or a River Valley, seems to point to the same end— The Coming. Now, what do we do in the meantime— Now that the end seems to be infinitely distant, Elusive, mirage-like? Do we just wait and suffer? Or wait and drift? Or dismiss it as illusory? Or explore alternatives? The gap, anyway, seems To be a period of entropy, Which, according to scientists, is on the rise. We may call it Postmodern era Or Kali Yuga or whatever. The gap is to be filled As Nature abhors vacuum: We have to live in the meantime And life demands solutions. Absurdity, for instance, has got to be dealt with. So, little narratives And interventions arise by necessity. There arise, for instance, Irrational Philosophies: A Nietzsche or a Marx or a Freud Appears to be our Messiah. But these Messiahs can offer only palliatives, Like a counter-irritant in times of pain. We are – most of us – materialists in a sense, Inasmuch as we bank On the Grand narrative of matter Or on the Grand narrative of the material presence— Of the Divine in the future; Maybe as Darsan or Epiphany. To most of us, seeing is believing; And hence our incredulity. Now, to speculate: The Divine presence may be abstract— Rather than concrete; Maybe something like software Rather than hardware; May be within Rather than without. And, as such, is likely To be always already there— If and only if one is willing to see! ***