The Verses of N.S. Arunachalam

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The Heart and the Brain of the Universe

On the sacred cave

Began themselves to converse

When all were struck mute and grave.

As from the blazing sun the light

Which stands heart for Earth

Makes the moon shine in its height

Which gives light for the Earth.

Upanishads from the Muni's lips

Whose plane is that of Heart

To Lord flowed who the brain's plane keeps

And heard by us as the Earth.

Of these sacred sayings I heard

I verify, though uncooth,

Of the truth of every word.

Why truth, merely because Truth.

Sri Ramana, the silent great,

The Secret of secrets

Took Heart and brain of which I prate

And described accurate.

Just as pictures play on the wall

Through the machine's glassy hole

By inserting therein cards small

And seen as figures whole.

So a smallest lust in the heart

Made big by glassy brain

Escapes through eyes, nose and mouth

And makes of scenes a train.

I spent in heart all these my time

And when to world I came

I found through brain the way of mine

Learned the system of mine.

Thus the sacred speech they ended

While these the Lord noted

And all of us well attended

And which I now quoted.

(The Mountain Path, July 1983)

These Verses were composed by a schoolboy (N.S. Arunachalam) and tell of a

conversation between Sri Bhagavan and Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni, at which he

was present. (Originally published in 'The Call Divine', July 1954)