Mind And Awareness Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Mind divides, dissects and discriminates
Anything it comes to have contact with.
Mind attracts, distracts and destroys for good.
It’s succeeded in splitting even atoms.
Mind is to give you a state of alertness.
Intellect can sharpen it to be shrewd.
Experience can make it to be aggressive.
Minds alert, people are at war in life.

Awareness is different form mind.
Awareness vibrates and ends with one’s death.
Awareness is just the state of being.
Divide-and-rule is not its policy.
Realizing self is the key of awakening.
Intellect cannot develop awareness.
The awakened one cannot be provoked.
Awareness must overcome intelligence.
23.03.2015