A doctrine pure

The Buddha's doctrine pure and serene -

An intellectual approach solid and clean,

Through mental development sublime

Gave answers to all universal problems

Then, and for all time.

Absolutely unique among religious teachers

Left on the soil of India's reaches

A fertile deposit of ideas and ideals

Forming the best environment of all

Unto which the seed of Dharma could fall.

Greece, China, Egypt and Babylon

For all their loftiness of thought

Never attained quality vision of this sort

The germ of enlightenment bourne

Like a winged seed from distant fields blown

From worlds in space, came to be soon

At a time infinitely remote and unknown.

This very germ of enlightenment

Found growth and development

In this our part of Asia,

Which found its full expression

In the experience of the greatest man

The Buddha - Prince Siddhartha Gauthama

"Man is creator of himself,

Reaping what he sows"

Said the Buddha, centuries ago.

He gave us real meaning

To life, and the purpose for living!

Mallika Kannangara