Who Wants to Be a Deity?

There is a popular television game show franchise called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

- B.K. SHEILU

Participants in the quiz answer a series of multiple-choice questions while attempting to win large cash prizes. The shows are popular the world over largely due to the money on offer – the top prize is usually a million units of the local currency.

Most people are quick to see the opportunity to get rich fast. However, few people see the opportunity to change their lives meaningfully and become something more than an ordinary person, especially when such transformation involves working on oneself.

Such an opportunity comes along just once, when the world is passing from one age to another, as the wheel of time turns inexorably.

Time brings major changes, slowly but surely. The process is often imperceptible to us even as we play a part in it, because it stretches over a long period of time. It becomes apparent only when its ultimate results manifest themselves, as is happening with climate change.

A time comes when the world undergoes renewal, and the decrepit old order is replaced by a new, divine one. This is part of the cyclic progression of time, whereby the world goes from new to old, is rejuvenated, and again becomes old before another renewal, in a process that repeats endlessly.