Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Parents help their children marry.
And remarry when they divorce.
Widow or widower they end.
Companion-less they become.
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Sitting at the bark of a tree
Is handy and convenient,
Which is why Buddha and Mahavira
Gave their discourses under the tree.
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Love is the prime attribute of God
Besides truth, justice and compassion.
Faith is the human's attribute
And it does not inhere in God.
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To buy where the brand is cheap
Is rational. The intellect
Is at work. To buy from a firm
Which serves for a social cause
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He looks pious but wicked.
He seems holy but crooked.
People don't apprehend one
Whom they hold pious and holy,
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Classes in the class or
Make no difference to pupils,
Who learn lessons from books and guides
Rather than lectures in class rooms.
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The Svetasvetara Upanished
Is the earliest text that alludes to Shive
As the Parama Purush, the Supreme.
‘Since the Rudra is one, the knowers of Brahmn
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Choices good and bad

Any choice made will lead to subsequent ones
And set the direction in which to move.
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Even love seems hopeless,
Mutual longing helps passion alive.

Shakuntala, daughter of Royal Sage,
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Happiness is the ratio
Of number of desires fulfilled
Divided by the total ones.
It is good to have less desires.
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