Eternally Happy: परमानंद

There is a quest that most face sometime or the other.

Should one succumb to desires seeking pleasure?
Or should one strive for happiness or still higher order for bliss ?
How does one resolve these queries ?

I have no doubt to express that I am not competent to answer above questions. But in order to quench my own thirst, I do try to find answers in my own ways.

Until more enlightenment dawns, I go by a concept that I read somewhere: GOD is a beautiful flower that created so many noses (in the form of life in material-world as also in the form of the infinite-n-infinitesimal Universe) to smell itself and enjoy!

What does one do on seeing a beautiful flower?

1/ Some don't have time to see them at all.
2/ Some pluck it in order to create creative displays on head, or shirt, or in a vase.
3/ Few others gaze at them, analyse, submit reports and go away.
4/ Very few cajole them, nurse the plants that sport them with fertilisers and water. And their journey is likely to graduate and go "beyond-them".

First one is short of time perhaps because of her busy-ness in earning money (material resources).

Second and third types 'like' the flowers. The last one 'loves' them. But the first one probably seems very busy in "Me-Myself-Mine" to know about both the 'like', 'love' and beyond.

For the last one perhaps the thought that "Me, Material-Universe (the flower and the plant, etc), and Lord (G-O-D: Generator-Operator-Destructor) of the Universe are no-different" gives a blissful feeling.

For the rest, if the otherway-round-thought gives a blissful feeling then they are the lord-of-themselves: free to choose their own option. Ultimate need actually is to enjoy while seeking answers!

Hereunder is a poetic expression in Marathi language (Devnagari script), a version of the original poem in English already published by me earlier.

Part-1: The Journey: Wants-to-Needs! Extrinsic-to-Intrinsic !!
एक प्रवास: इच्छांकडून गरजांकडे, बाह्यसुखांकडून आंतरिक सुखांकडे !

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; असेतरी काय हा परमानंद ?
                                       
बागडे ते भूके-बालक मिळताचं चरमरीतं खाऊ 
अटेन्शन-अन् थोडंसं-प्रेम, 'टेन्शन'-ताऊ-भाऊ-ही करती या...हू

बालके होता पालकं, गरजांच्या होती इच्छा-रूक्षेच्छा 
होताचं सीनियऱ-बालकं, इच्छा होती कल्पव्रुक्षेच्छा
छत्राऐवजी घर, घराऐवजी मोठे घर, हवे त्याहूनही मोठे घर
बस-ऐवजी कार, तद्-नंतर लागे लक्झरी-कारची घरघर.      =1=

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; काय असावा बरे परमानंद ?
सुखात दडती इच्छा-स्वच्छंद, परि प्रेमात दडे आनंद !

इच्छा होता फुलाची, नाहीका वाटत फुल तोडावं रे ?
परि प्रेमापोटी फुलाच्या, देशी खत-पाणीचं फुलझाडा-रे

अखेर इच्छाच त्या, आगंतुक शरीर-मनाच्या इच्छाच-रे
अप्रमाणित-अगणित, करिती "म"-मजसी अगतिक रे
विनाश काले करिती भल-भल्यांचीही बुद्दी विपरीत रे
ओसामा-वा असो-सद्दाम, इंद्रसत्ताही कूचकामी ठरे
अरेरे अरेरे, उद्दामांचाही उद्दाम-"मी" संपत्तीसंवेचं मरेरे
तयापुढे तर विग्यानही नमे-रे. ओ-माय-गॉड्, खरंच तू ग्रेटरे.    =2=

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; काय असे बरे परमानंद ?
जगद्-इच्छेत भासे सुख, तर विश्व-प्रेमात गवसे आनंद !
निर्भेळ-निरेच्छ-निर्मळ विश्वनाथी-प्रेमात पऱि परमानंद !!    =3=

Part-2: The Journey: Body-to-Mind-to-Soul ! Happiness-to-Bliss !! 
प्रवासाचा एक मार्ग : शरीर-ते-मन-ते-आत्मा ! आनंद-ते-परमानंद !! 

(FORTHCOMING. You also may visit English-version already published earlier.) 

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