Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Desire for a gain or fear for punishment
Is the outcome of attachment you give
To a person, a thing or an event.
Slacken the attachment to feel at ease.
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Using power, money is earned.
Using money, power is earned.
Everyone is a slave to it.
It buys justice and humbles merit.
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Anger is a regulator. Show it
To a right person at the right time
To a right degree for the right cause
In the right way and then forget about it.
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Belief cannot be removed
But can be limited to reality.
Faith cannot be done with
But can be cut down to evidence.
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Air breathes life; water pumps life.
The Earth supports life in forms.
Life recycles and reforms.
Plants to garbage and back to plants;
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Do a thing at a time; it is mono task.
Do you want to read? Switch off radio;
Turn off television; forget surroundings
Read and read and get absorbed in reading.
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Intellect is the power of discrimination.
Everyone has it in varying degrees.
Intellect decides on what mind desires.
He is wise who has a strong intellect.
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One minute of strenuous exertion
To be preceded by two minute warm up
Equals a thirty minute moderate exercise.
A hundred metre sprint run or climbing
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Embezzlement, misappropriation,
Corruption and fraud are characteristics
That exist everywhere. A strong vigilance
And the stringent law can minimize them.
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We cannot be happy without freedom.
We cannot live without relationships.
Freedom and relationships coexist not.
One has to thrive at the cost of the other.
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