Samudrena Phena Yena

Ocean foam is created in an instant by the action of the waves. Just as abruptly the foam is also disintegrated after a momentary existence. The “game” of illusory material family life and its affairs is like that, suddenly beginning and then terminating after a short existence.

In truth, no one can actually be said to be a “father,” “mother,” “relative,” or dear “friend,” since everyone remains, as do the bubbles of foam in the ocean, for just a very short period of time.

As a ocean foam finally merges back into the ocean water from where it came, similarly material bodies, which are temporary products of the material energy made of the five gross material elements (earth, water, fire, air, and sky), are also eventually destroyed by the actions of the material energy, and finally the elements of the dead body merge again with the total material elements. The temporary material body is certainly not the real person, nor even alive.

There is a living spiritual force present in the body that is not the body, but which makes each body “alive”. That living force is the real self, the eternal spirit soul, which for the short period of one life temporarily possesses a particular material body, then leaves that body at “death” and enters into a new body and is born again, repeating