Is Happiness An Enigma? Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

I'm at loss to explain what i don't know.
I'm at los to define in words things known.
I'm at loss to abstract the things i feel.
What is happiness is an enigma.

Attainment of desire is happiness.
Extinction of pain is happiness.
Not a state of mind or body either,
Happiness Is inherent activities.

Happiness is not what we wish to get.
Forgoing it in a spirit of sacrifice
Is also ever lasting happiness.
Freedom of action leads to happiness.

Happiness is different from pleasure.
Pleasure is momentary and short lived.
It can be abandoned on its getting.
Happiness has no end nor is abandoned.

To eat, drink and be merry is happiness.
The way to happiness as Plato says
Is to live as a play singing and dancing
And making sacrifices for the dear.
07.05.2018