Hello MD,
Here are some lines that I found at:
http://www.quantonics.com/LilaReview.html
"I have read "Lila" multiple times. I only recently discovered that lila
in Hindu mythology means the
never-ending dance of the Divine in an ongoing alternation between the
World and the Divine and
back again. It is like sacrifice of the Divine to create the World and then
sacrifice of the World to
create the Divine. Lila is this continual dance. I found that a strong
metaphor of the main female
character in "Lila" and her relationship to Phaedrus. I am unsure Pirsig
intended this metaphor, but I
suspect he did."
A never ending dance of the Divine and then back again.......
Nice words, finally!
Que esten bien,
Carmen.
Bob Wallace wrote:
> >From "The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions"
>
> Lila (Skt., 'play') The 'joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the
> art of creation.' Lila is freedom of movement, as in the rush of water
> from a fountain. It represents an exuberance in creation, undertaken by
> the god(s) for sheer delight and thus is the reason why there is
> something instead of nothing. Because lila arises from the creator's
> bliss, the cosmos arises, continues, and dissolves in bliss. Sufferings
> and misery are then a consequence of karma."
>
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