The Observer Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

You and I are mere seeds adrift
In the cosmic winds with the rest.
Nothing is born or dead but steps.
That promote the evolution.
Everything is in a fluid stage.
Everything is in motion.
Permanence is an illusion
With exception, perhaps, atoms.
Conscious is one's waking state.
The unconscious is not one's death's state.
The unconscious doesn't realize
About its own death when it comes.

When you see you experience
What you see, only within you,
In your head, not externally.
The universe seen is within us.
No universe exists without us.
Man differs from other mammals
By one and a half percent genes.
A personified god is meaningless.
A thing in itself is nothing;
It transcends thingness for a thing.
A thing in itself has no value.
It transcends value to a thing.

Oneness is seeing the observer
And the observed as one system.
It is that we, the observer
And the nature, the observed
Are seen as one and viewed as whole.
Everything is inter connected
That the observer and the observed
Alternate their status and place
In the motion that is cyclic.
We are not separate from nature
To be an exclusive observer.
Judge the world with you in it.
24.04.2022