Is Life Blissful?

 

S. A. KHAYUM

 

God is one, concepts many,

Globe is one, seasons many,

Diversity triggers all activity,

Life is a chain of mobility.

 

What is animate and what is not

Is a problem baffled all;

What is life and what is not

Is a riddle never solved.

 

Existence is the firm reality,

Life is its conformity,

Diversity is its quality,

Death is its mobility.

 

Monoists called it all in one,

Dualists differed from them.

Mystics were mum,

Philosophers were shaky.

 

Faith springs from fear,

Fear from death,

Death from life,

Life is from desire.

 

Love, labour and learning excess

Land us into distress;

Ignorance is injurious.

 

Religion reflects our aspirations

God is our companion

Tradition is our champion

Is God the Spectator?

Result, as we sow, so we reap.

 

Is man the cream of creation?

Is he the crown of nature?

Like all others he is

Born, bread and buried in clay;

He claims his soul is immortal,

Is not immortal soul concealed in clay?

 

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