Nothing Remains Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

A being is non-eternal
And has got an expiry date,
By when existence will cease.
So do mind, intellect and ego.

The body disintegrates.
It follows the death of the brain.
Functions of the existence with
Mind, intellect and ego stop.

Existence is life force acting.
Mind, intellect and ego are,
In man, developed attributes.
They together take decisions.

Mind discriminates things sought.
Intellect evaluates actions.
Ego can veto proposals.
They are the brain’s functionaries.

Life (Jiva) is an individual unit
Like a leaf that a tree extrudes
Or a bulb that a wire connects
Or a ray the Sun emanates.

Life is a marginal potency
Of the main potency, Life Stream.
When a unit of life dies,
The stream is there to reproduce.

Life is distinct from the Life Stream
In their potencies as the life
Is in atomic part of potency,
Which, with atoms, dissolves on death

No liberation of soul;
No existence of Spirit;
No occurrence of rebirth;
No Karma accumulation;
16.06.2015