The
ongoing drama of life on this planet springs from the
energy contained in the solar rays. Earth which
supports life is supported by its parent body, the sun, which holds it in an eternal revolution by its gravity. Life germinated millions of years back and it has advanced to the present stage where humans tread upon it.
The smiles of birth, blues of death, fragrant breeze, passion’s bliss, blossoming blooms, sturdy steps and steep falls, all alternate in the
ongoing burlesque. Thunder storms, quakes, pestilences, accidents, horrendous plaques, famine, floods and diseases take away his breath unabated.
The baptism of the new born, marriages and the tolling church bells signal this transient play. There will be a time when the solar exlosion will declare the death of earth. The curtain would have fallen on the ongoing transient play long before.
A supernova will toll the death of the sun. The gas clouds released may coalesce and form another heavenly object which may circle the galactic nucleus. But the death of the new birth is certain too. The twinkling stars and galaxies move towards their programmed end. The expanding universe will retrace its steps and fall back with the pull of gravity to a tiny but immensely dense ball. When the density tends towards infinity, there may be a Big Bang again.
Just like a Big Bang produced the clusters of galaxies, stars, their attendant planets and life a big crunch will ensure all their deaths and an infiniitely dense dark hole will prevail. There will a new Big Bang which will hurtle immense gas clouds and another ‘universe' will be formed.
There can be sun-like stars and earth like planets and man like beings –all awaiting their demise. All march in unison to each one’s programmed end and new beginning. Big bang and Big crunch pulsate in eternity with the lullaby of time. Matter and
energy alternate in their destiny.