Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

She is past sixty and well positioned.
He is fifteen years elder in command.
She was aroused; the credit goes to him.
He is kindled; the credit goes to her.
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Husband and wife
In coexistence
Are with detachment.
Their kids are growing.
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Anxiety causes stresses.
Stresses affect the release
Of Cortsol, critical
For bone and joints
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Any great man is relevant post his death
For his ideology only when they've been
From thinking of humans as a whole
And is not fit if it's only confined
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She was raped with a promise;
Be it marriage, employment or stardom.
Would the sex amount to be a rape
Had the promises been met subsequently?
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Knowledge comes through sense organs.
Knowledge comes through reasoning.
One is empirical and the other, logical.
Knowledge is brought out by Intuition.
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The victim can pardon.
The king can pardon.
You can't pardon yourself.
It is justifying your wrong.
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Love has power.
The giver knows it.
The receiver knows it.
Sexual love peaks it.
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Narayana is the absolute God.
Soul and the universe are its attributes.
Ishwara is Para Brahman and Jiva
Is Chita Brahman and Jagat, Achit Brahman.
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One out of five cheats on one's partner.
The ratio would go up, guilt diluting.
Man is the initiator in most of the cases.
Every man is by mind in adultery.
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