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A dog chasing his tail, A toddler playing fort/da with his toy, Children playing hide-and-seek, A player chasing a leather ball, A physicist ‘knocking about’ an electron (while measuring its velocity), A poet carnivalizing a composition, YHWH playing with the sign, As in Babel and ever after, Or Siva hiding the meaning (of mantras and numbers, as told in Sivsutravimarsini)— These are all basically instinctual acts, Involving the ludic instinct. They all, as such, differ in degree and domain Rather than in kind! — Ram, R . V.