This shows that a person in one's life in the activity of the world is just like a little piece of wood, raised by the waves of the sea when the waves are rising and cast down when the waves are going down. Therefore the Hindus have called the life of the world Bawasada, an ocean, an ever-rising ocean. And the life of a person is floating in this ocean of the activity of the world, not knowing what he or she is doing, not knowing where he or she is going. What seems to one of importance is only the moment which one calls the present; the past is a dream, the future is in a mist, and the only thing clear to one is the present.