Body And Energy Make Life. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Harmony between wood and energy
Makes fire that lasts till the wood exhausts
Or air is blocked or the rainfall puts out.
Birth, aging, disease and death is the fire.

Harmony between body and energy
Makes life that lasts till the body tires,
Germs eat out or accidents terminate.
Birth, aging, disease and death is the life.

New fire forms from the spark of fire living.
New life forms from the seed of the life present.
Birth is the devise by which recharge is made.
Fire and life exists on burning matter.

Fire extinguished, where would go the fire?
Life terminated, where would go the soul?
Neither fire nor soul has independent
Existence outside the fuel and body.
11.04.2016