Life Converges In The Brain. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

The gross body is there and visible;
The mind is there; the intellect is there;
The subtle ego and the soul are there;
All the four are non-visible in one;

The gross body consumes food and takes air
And grows to stay as a vehicle for four.
Mind stores, reacts, broods, muses and recalls
With love and hate and fear and anger.

Intellect reasons and takes decisions
And is often in conflict with the mind.
Ego is the captain, who sails or sinks
With fame or shame, in the vessel taken.

Soul, the God particle, omnipresent
In the body, is a piece of the life string
That runs through all living organisms,
Carrying DNA and giving awareness.

The brain acquaints itself with the body
And not the soul, and to that extent lives
In illusion, which is known as nescience,
And get agitated to that extent.

The brain, a part of the gross body,
Associates itself with mind, intellect,
And ego in function for the God particle,
Which stops functioning when the brain is dead.
19.0.2015