Consciousness - Is - Not - Eternal. Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Consciousness
is not eternal.
It was maintained
by the purvapakshin

that as consciousness
is self−established
it has no antecedent.

But this is an
attempt to prove
something not
proved by something
else that is equally
unproved.

Pūrvapakṣa (पूर्वपक्ष) .—lit. the view placed first for consideration which generally is the view of the objector and is generally refuted by the author's view called उत्तरपक्ष (uttarapakṣa)or सिद्धान्त (siddhānta) . (Source: Wikisource: A dictionary of Sanskrit grammar) .