Where there's birth, <br />There's sure death, <br />No matter, old or youth, <br />This is a known truth. <br /> <br />The body only dies. <br />The soul ever lives <br />To take a new body <br />After the old body. <br /> <br />Thus the life cycle repeats <br />As the soul continues <br />To exist on this earth <br />Many a birth after death. <br /> <br />The soul too undergoes, <br />With the body consciousness, <br />Untold ills and miseries <br />When the body suffers. <br /> <br />From the petty body consciousness <br />To the highest God consciousness, <br />A shift to this great awareness <br />Binds the soul with eternal happiness. <br /> <br />One should lead the life, <br />Like the free lotus leaf <br />With the water not mixing, <br />But on its surface floating. <br /> <br />Better late than never, <br />Practice in mind ever, <br />'The body-detachment, <br />And the God-attachment.'<br /><br />Rajaram Ramachandran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/birth-and-death-cycle/
