RABINDRANATH
TAGORE SAID
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali
poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer,
painter, a great figure in the emergence Bengal Renaissance. He was born on 7
May 1861 in Kolkata and passed away 7 August 1941 in the same city. He wrote
many books and won in 1913 the Nobel Prize in literature for his profoundly
sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse. His most famous book of poems is Gitanjali
(Song-offering) published in 1913.
What follows is two extracts from his
important writings:
*Spiritual life is the emancipation
of consciousness. Through it we find immediate response of soul everywhere.
Before we attain this life, we see men through the medium of self-interest,
prejudice or classification, because of the perpetual remoteness around us
which we cannot cross over. When the veil is removed, we not only see the fleeting
forms of the world, but come close to its eternal being which is ineffable
beauty.
Some
seek for the evidence of spiritual truth in the outside world. In this quest
one may stumble upon ghosts or some super-sensual phenomenon of Nature, but
these do not lead us to spiritual truth, as new words in a dictionary do not
give us literature.
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**We light the lamp in our room
which creates a seeming opposition between it and the great outside world. Our
life on the earth is like that small room in which our consciousness has been
concentrated. And we imagine that outside it lies death which opposes it. But
the one indivisible truth of existence which is for us must not be doubted because our life
obscures it for a moment.
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G.R.Kanwal
3rd September 2026
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