<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=503943" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Concept of the Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is death? Why is it? Who causes it? <br>Living things are animated objects.<br>The dead are so when unanimated.<br>Cessation of animation is death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who terminates the animation: <br>The soul or the body? Neither of them.<br>The soul leaves not that the body decays.<br>The body decays not that the soul leaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neither the body nor the soul promotes<br>The death nor do they desert each other.<br>They together succumb to the pressure<br>Exerted by the force present outside</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death happens when the matters break down<br>By accidents of the external force, <br>Or when they weaken from the external stress<br>Or when they are eaten by the predators. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The flame is to burn till the matter lasts, <br>The life is to run till the body lasts.<br>The flame is to die with no more matter.<br>The life is to cease with no more addition.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Degraded and disintegrated <br>By saprophytes at different stages, <br>The dead matters turn basic elements<br>And settle as inorganic matters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The elements add to the growth of plants, <br>Plants to the growth of the herbivorous<br>And the herbivorous to the carnivorous<br>With the participation of the life force.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The drive of the life force is to survive<br>Against the pressure of the external force<br>The life force builds up the matter in growth<br>And when it could not, it dies with the matter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The plants and animals form a network<br>Trough which runs the life force, which is the soul, <br>Whose drive is to feed, grow and procreate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=503943" data-title="The Concept of the Death de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description="What is death? Why is it? Who causes it? Living things are animated objects. The dead are so when unanimated. Cessation of animation is death. Who terminates the animation: The soul or the body? Neither of them. The soul leaves not that the bod..."></div> </div> </div>

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