Soul Not Individual Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Is a birth an absolute beginning?
Can a death be an absolute ending?
Law of Conservation speaks no destruction
But only transformation of matter.

The continuity in transformation
Towards the desired passage is inbuilt
In the evolutionary process
Of creation from empirical evidences.

The trio of mind, matter and life-force
Constitutes man as do other beings.
Death is cessation of mind and matter.
Birth is protrusion of life-force inbuilt.

Birth and death denote a span of life-force.
A cell each from the male and the female,
Carrying psycho matter and life-force
Fuse and grow into a new entity.

Body without life-force is dead like wood.
Body with life-force is wood caught by fire.
Living is nothing but body burning.
Food to life-force is wood to fire alive.

Is electricity new born when lit?
Is a flame new born when a lamp is lit?
A new leaf is not rebirth of a leaf dead.
No rebirth and no individual soul;
31.10.2016