Woes to happiness

Woes to happiness

P K Routray

Amidst fear, confusion and grief

madly, the man searches for relief

in his run for materialistic happiness

yielding results, frustrating and fruitless.

Lacks the man the wisdom to discriminate

three modes of happiness that men create.

Happiness with a mode of ignorance

attempted at, keeping piety in abeyance

by falsehood, greed, and deeds of selfish nature

with traits belonging to the demoniac character

Happiness through the mode of passions

rendering happiness as illusory illusions

with personal liking and disliking and self-vanity

ignoring truth justice and the deeds with divinity

Happiness earned by mode of goodness

last permanent and from within springs joy endless

with service to the Lord and His creation

the selfish end, greed, and self-vanity were forgotten.

The happiness that is earned by the mode of goodness

is the real wisdom to enlighten man wandering in the wildness

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