In Pursuit Of Happiness

It has been said and heard by us again and again

That cause of our misery is our desire

To relive suffering we must crush desire

Rooted in our ego sense

Is it really ancient wisdom or 

A dilapidated skewed up misconception ?

‘The nonbeing breathing to become being’

‘Saw desire sprouting as first seed of Cosmic mind'

On wings of desire Supreme self flew 

To reside in life's bosom 

To enjoy and experience 

What the nonexistent was deprived of.

The desires that we fulfill bring self pleasure and joy

Equally causing pain are the unfulfilled desires

The blaming game goes around in search of cause

We could blame external factors

Fire, mudslide, earth quake, tsunami

Or any of Mother Nature's calamity 

And be angry with whole creation.

Or pick upon bad timings or bad rules 

And be despondent and rue

In blaming society and surrounding.

Or we could introspect and blame ourselves

Our poor skills and inability 

For aspirations to achieve

What is beyond our reach 

Goaded by others to do of what we have no clue

There by planting seeds potted in sunny ambitions

Watered well with greed and frustration.

Now it is not the desire that needs to be blamed

It is us not discriminating and understanding 

Before running after temptations

So before you try to chase your tail like a dog

Pause for a second and prepare yourself

Of success and failure equally

No desire small or big will have power

Upon you to make you unhappy.

We have this built in will and impulse

Throbbing in our hearts to be joyous

Working through a calm, blissful and hidden entity

An offering and a contract supreme self made

With all of us to pursue happiness unequivocally

Albeit with wisdom and sincerity.