The life of the life depends on life, which eventually ends being the food of death. The life feeds on life to escape death. The death of one becomes the life of another, and the life of another becomes the death of yet another. Thus, life survives by consuming life, only to be consumed by death, which itself depends on life to exist. In this eternal cycle, life is but the means through which death sustains itself, and death is but the end through which life perpetuates itself.
~ Sw. Chidananda Tirtha