Where Is Bliss Poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

May be your children live far away from you

And you live in a folorn cloister

May be you are leading a life amidst poverty and dishonour

May be you are old and sick

If you know that your children are honest and sincere

If you know that their lives are an offering to humanity and Nature

You are in perfect bliss

Even if you are harassed and insulted

If you have to live in ignominy

In the deserts of Sahara or the cold of Bharkhayanask

Wherever you go whatever befalls you

A peace presides over your being

Yourself a saint as it were

If you know that your son

Wherever he might live

Is as wise as Plato as truthful as Socrates

As selfsacrificing as Albert Schwitzer