You Have to Come Down

The Hindu life
 Is related
 To this cosmology
 And the objective
 Of life
 Is of course in the end
 To wake up from the dream
 When you've had enough
 And so, the dreaming process is called
 Sometimes samsara
 Samsara
 Is the round
 The rat race
 Samsara is divided into six divisions
 This is the world of the Deva
 This is the same root which we get both divine and devil
 The Deva means angel
 The highest
 And most successful beings in the universe
 And so opposite
 This is the world of Narak
 Naraka
 Who are the most unsuccessful
 These are the purgatorial worlds
 Of extreme suffering
 This is the world of Ashura
 They are also angels but they are angry angels
 Representing
 The wrath
 Potential of energy
 This is the world of animals
 This is the world of Preta
 For which we have no English equivalent
 They are hungry
 Or frustrated spirits
 Who have enormous stomachs but mouths only the size of needles
 Vast appetite and no means of fulfillment
 And this is the Manu world that is to say the world of man
 You don't have to take this literally
 You could say
 When you're extremely happy or ecstatic, you're here
 When you are miserable, you're here
 When you're dumb, you're here
 When you're mad, you're here
 When you're frustrated, you're here
 But when you're more or less your normal rational self you're here
 The - All life through the period of the Kalpas
 Goes grinding around this wheel
 And if you go up
 And you succeed and you get to the top
 You have to come down
 They don't see success in other words in the world
 As a method of liberation
 Because it implies failure
 But the idea of liberation
 Which is called Moksha
 Is the ideal of Hindu life
 Wake up, it's a dream