Sumum Bonum Poem by Dr. Madan Gandhi

Human consciousness
its all-encompassing sweep
its exploration, its purification
from individual self to all-Self

The birth right of every wo-man
so proclaim from the housetop
the Vedic seer, the Upanishads
and the other Hindhu scriptures

Self is the substratum of all knowledge
of totalizing consciousness
in transcendence it attains the supreme state
the summit of creativity and self realization

In this seer’s vision Self becomes one with the Universe
all things seen in Himself/Herself and Himself/Herself in everything
sanctifies not only human life but the whole creation.
This is the perennial India’s sumum bonum, the message to mankind.
(Yayati)