Mahamahopadhyaya Yogacharya Dr. Ashoke Kumar  Chatterjee’s book on poems named “PRANER KATHA” has been published on January 2002. This book contains 70 poems. Each one of them strikes the inner recesses of the human heart. They are an appeal to mankind not to head for the abysmal depths of degeneration. His poems are poignant possessing a coherence and compactness in ideas. Reading them tugs at one’s heart strings. The readers can be at one with the poems. Dr. Chatterjee’s simplicity of thoughts, lucidity of expression have generated a wide acceptance amongst his readers.

To illustrate the poignancy of Prana (the infinite soul) a couple of poems have been sampled here:

“Shutting My eyes
When my-self I see
My self being lost
Am struck with perplexity
When amidst the world I wander
It’s the world I see
When amidst the realm I enter
The world seems a falsity.

Then I heed the Anahata
See the Omkara
And a million moons thousand suns source of world’s beauty
Then I’m truly happy.

Finite me, restless me
Ceasing I see
The dot me, infinite me
The void I be.

Pondering about losing my self
When my self ceases
Then not being able to find my self
Shamchurn pervades.
I’m Shamachurn, Shamachurn I’m
There’s no differentiation
Hark ye mortals, barring
Bhagavan Shamachurn
There’s no salvation.”