The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

I was introduced to this famous quote “The wheel weaves as the wheel wills” through one of my friend’s status message. It has inspired me through the night and has given birth to this blog entry.

The wheel, as I analyze the quote, is open for multiple interpretations. First, the wheel can be that of time on which we all move. It is closely related with the quote “Man proposes and God disposes”. Many times in our lives we aim for achieving a goal within a particular span of time, but we rarely see it happen the way we want. The wheel takes its own sweet time to patiently give us the fruits of our so-called hard work if it “WILLS”.

Second, the wheel can be considered to represent the rotating dual nature of the world. For example, the wheel could indicate the ever-repeating intervals of happiness and sorrow. Another quote similar to this is “Pleasure is an interval between two pains”. The elderly say that we can cherish the happiness of a success only when we realize the pain of failure. Life becomes uninteresting if it is filled with sadness or happiness alone. Again, the concept of its will to weave is the experience that we as humans go through and the knowledge that we gain from it. This knowledge helps us to remain focused and detached from the fruits of our actions.

Third, the most abstract, rather far-fetched analysis can be that the wheel represents the Hindu’s myth of a person’s cycles of birth and death. Rather, in my opinion, I would explain it in the following manner. We all emerged in a pure state when we knew nothing about the vices existent now. As we live our lives, we tend to change and get influenced by both our observations and other people’s opinions. As we reach our final days, we start to realize that nothing accompanies us at the end and slowly try reaching our intial pure state.

Yeah, the wheel weaves us through the impermanent nature of worldly desires and accomplishments making us realize the wholeness in absolute emptiness.