“All that is born shall die; all that dies shall be born.” This cyclical nature of creation and destruction is, in essence, saṁsāra, and it is fundamental to the theory of karma. No one escapes karma — no avatāra, no human, no god, no seeker, no ṛṣi, no beast, no plant, no insect. No life is exempt from this Law. Only those who have died inwardly — in whom the ego, the “I”-sense, is dead while the body still lives (jīvanmukta) — have a choice, having transcended the cycle and reached the Ultimate Abode reiterated in the cantos to come. All others, retaining their little sentient ego and their identity as individuals, remain bound to the loop of karma.