Eudaimonia 02 - A Good Life Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

One needs
to live a good life!

What constitutes a good life?
Do wealth and consumption
equate to happiness?
'Thyena thyaktena bhunjeetha'.

A good, meaningful
life is not about
how much we can buy
or how much we achieve,
but how much we give
give back to the society.

Note:

'Tena tyaktena bhunjitha' is the doctrine of consumption set out in Indian Scriptures. A phrase from the Ishavasya Upanishad that means 'letting go makes life happy'. It is the ascetic gospel of renunciation, which involves:
*Abandoning the world;
*Renouncing everything that is dearest to us;
*Sacrificing and laying aside all that is dearest to us in our outward and inward lives.