Death Is An Enigma. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Death is an enigma, a mystery.
Death is not an event which one does not live
To experience and yet death looms high.
Death looks mysterious as it limits life.

Death tells us about impermanence of life.
Death in others warns us to be prepared.
Death proves about uncertainty of life.
Death mystifies us with no after-death clues.

A living person is an aggregate
Of gross body with flesh, thoughts and feelings
And subtle body with intuition and energy.
Death separates gross body and subtle body.

Death is not one time event but gradual.
Final death is the last axe that fells the tree.
The relation between the gross and the subtle
Is akin to one between water and heat.
31.05.2016