Exercise For Meditation Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Mind is not at rest even in a sleep.
Mind engages itself through sense organs
And other times it travels on the paths
Trodden or oversees the paths in front.

Man’s memory and imagination
Are responsible for recollections
Of the past full of pride, pain and regrets
And for imagination full of hopes and fears.

Responses to the perceptions obtained
Is the stock on which mind webs its structure
And travels faster than the light to dash.
Giving the mind rest is the rest to the brain.

Giving rest to the mind is meditation.
Forgetting about the stimuli around
And refusing to think past and future,
Is the exercise for meditation.
03.08.2015