ABSTRACT
Human beings are latecomers in this world, compared to bugs. Religions promise a bug-free state someday. At times, it seems, religions treat the universe as a bug to be free of—life is the bug. Some promise freedom from suffering by practising their path. Some promise freedom from suffering by practising their path. They wish to wish suffering away. Deep down, they feel they can will bugs out of the universe. They live by an unconscious imperative that there ought not be pain in their lives. For them, agony is a necessary part of existence, of any life process. For the individual who demands a pain-free universe, killing bugs in dreams is simply an extension of the wish for a disturbance-free universe. For the individual who wills painlessness, killing bugs represents no work at all. An individual or group may surrender to the idea that annihilation is the way to get rid of what is bugging one.
