Literal Or Figural

Death and life—literal or figural? Maybe both, Now that there can be death in life or life in death, As for poets, notably, Bharati and Yeats. The dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna: Is it interpersonal or intrapersonal? Darsan or Epiphany—cling to it we would, For seeing is believing. The commandments, though heard, Had to be attested by the burning bush. Aha! Come to think of it, Could Darsan as well be figural— As is vipasana? As is epiphany for Joyce? A shorthand like light years? ***