Controlling His Five Senses Poem by Dr.V.K. Kanniappan

If a man is capable of controlling his five senses,
(by not doing any harm to anybody)

- his physical body, mouth, eyes, ears and nose
while facing the situation to do something harmful
demanding his virtue and character -

like the tortoise which withdraws into its shell
all the five parts of its body like four legs and head
while in danger;

It safeguards him, like a fort, in his future seven births.