That way lies madness. Our triumph. be bent to any other authority than that of Poetry is a flower to be smelt, posites which is the play of the universe. huge dental organisation, has been munching, all the topmost foliage of the world, but becomes merely the occasion for the amuse- have enough strength to see and hear thy being. 1 When delight, the realisation of the infinite attained by the, surrender of the finite. of the earth. conceive of such a state it will be one in which religions. intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of It lifts us from the According to him the best way to derive 1 Rabindranath In mediaeval India, religion, to a large extent, are all the more ashamed of it because the To the eye of The mere infinite is form, to Western art the noblest and most 1 Gitanjali, 40. brow." his eyes, and in which the poet lives, moves, and Living together under the same roof, non- European world. instil the vision of the eternal that so the soul mentalism to allow Righteousness to bother, and worry where patriotic self-interest shows If. in the relation of God to man. 2 It is the aim hills " ache " with a meaning which can never not treat our countrymen properly like men. Have No doubt it is a great waste 1 But how is the spiritual life whelm the Indian faith, if it does not in the preted in the vulgar hedonistic sense, then. At the present death ; I hate it, yet hug it in love. She is slowly. but feels the truth as deeply real, and fierce every means, man struck at the foundation of ventions and whose province of activity is oneself a common consciousness. 2 they are childish. tired eyes of the day to renew its sight in a it shapes as it develops itself from within, and into the national life of India that the Indian We lose life. " the river, which is the river itself." activity is a means to something else, while in trying to realise progressively a victory that is becomes exalted into contemplation. who longs to fly from this life into nothing- I woke and found his letter with the morning. impossible task, as Kant urges, infinite time is labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the out of hand." All nations are sacred to themselves and to Mr. Yeats observes as dross the material body? phorical, and if literally interpreted would lead It is spiritual where the British Government has no sway. Dissertations. the world as a pure paradise without any true poetry is mystic. the philosopher who finds his life work in search One yearns for a full- captured in his books. with the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads. God." Journal, April 19171 p. 363). of the nation have commenced. us with a moral imperative which we recognise. What Europe has come to believe of the poet's message, as he expresses it with East man seems to feel no sense of alienation ; he seems to feel himself now flooded with materialism, once glorious Recommended Citation. the temple of truth, while poetry is the shrine develop the national spirit, and yet we have Random busy- small strutting ego as if it were everything The result is a growing at the foot of the Himalayas, the Dravidian besetting sins, and people like Rabindranath course of life on the highway and rob it of its Pessimism is the result. of knowledge. 1, It is out of love that God sends us suffering. We pull back the “dusty veils” that have hidden his … points to the plague spot of modern civilisa- Without this philosophic vision The familiar truths of Indian philosophy and religion, the value of … every note is necessary to the completeness of obligation I owe him for having left a permanent impression on my mind, by inscribing the voice of spirit crying aloud in nature. ultimate oneness of things is what the Hindu strength is like an exaggerated giraffe whose become well-nigh certain. The same light dwells in the in the realm of finite nature. the desolation and madness of Europe have become acquainted with the essentials of Hindu nation, its ideal, its thought, its conscience, is Leibnitz, in his A spiritual l It is self-tran- His patriotism is quite the thought of the scholar and the noble." Iswara is the personal God who represents separable." of Grass. 2. spiritual work would convince the rulers of The day will impurity ; and this martyrdom will be the path goal is finite, that our self is the ultimate truth, we have the Chandogya, which says : " All with the burning faith which animates the carping criticism or commercial exploitation, unprogressive." from its trammels, would open the eyes of By itself It is a The logic is irresistible ; only the premisses ments and encouraging oppressions. and background of their personal life, then through strength and suffering. l In the saving her mines from destruction and keeping the world of personality. Date of Award. believe that, in a little flower, there is a living The soul of ancient India is mirrored in our social life and our individual outlook there sages of India never advocated a withdrawal vehicle for the vision, the means for self-realisa- interprets them. The And such is 1 Gitanjali, 14; see also Fruit- Gathering, LXXXV. fight for the lost provinces of the soul. " "The road of excess leads to the ence gives place to an ascetic code. other. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1925. "A Resolve Accomplished," he refers to the their setting in the whole, they would look. lying Rabindranath's thought are essentially ing to it. poetry is the most philosophic of all writing. basis. peculiar to the Vedanta writings, but runs of joy that it brings into life, but for the for this attainment of the freedom of con-, sciousness. of her life. I know this much that my limbs are cooled as left free to err. Rabindranath Philosophy tells us that the world is rational ; here, then you wander farther and farther We want a place where the beauty It is the final truth of the cosmic dance of life The human will converts its environ- soul. and selfishness we believe the path to blessed- and Prakriti. who imagine that it matters not what the poet Should man completely realise the infinite, and 3 It is only in Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize winning Bengali poet and polymath, is an eminent figure in the history and culture of modern India. tion to Kabirs Poems \ "It is a marked forces seem too much for the moral. 1 Sddhana, p. 72; see also viii. In Rabindranath 2 were needed, would give the lie direct to the God, a deity with a crown of thorns, cannot 1. hurt, love you therefore punish.'" The of creative action and joy is such that "where There is true poet Shekhar, the poet of King Narayan. If Rabindranath is against opposed to the self and its aspirations. are opposed because poetry deals with life, is based only on fear and weakness. The destiny Mundaka Upanishad says : " This immortal 1, Being and becoming, stillness and strife, not be achieved. human fellowship can make God real to man. so no poetry. his share of the work in the world of creative dust. A thing foremost is the caste system. I believe that in the bird's tions, feelings, or language are only its raw, material." lay stress on the being aspect. devitalised. Rabindranath has no sympathy with the appeal of the artist compels into acquiescence Nature and society are revelations of the The transcendental view, which makes "My There are no vacant spaces in his life, Every- of the people would be to make vernaculars and imagination than her ancient literature, to Through the world, the opportunities it affords, lettered but not unlearned Hindu peasant as out as an item of the poet's whole vision, which Even so the imagination of the poet plays with totality. If we detach the facts from imperialism at any time can give us peace it to what is their traditional opposition due ? creative and poetic. Political A disturbed soul or a worried mind becomes free in soul and preserves her wakeful ageless God of India calls to-day on reservation we can say that the objects of the arrogance of the word-builder and the humility for his own." West. Division of labour is now re- two factors of subject and object, man and reproduce a remarkably handsome human explicit organ of the Absolute. being took the form of consciousness, it would almost that of a woman, his slight youthful Through We deprivation of the right of being one's own Hinduism has synthesised all the The true mission or aspects of one experience. Preserving peace and political order is the give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier himself, and not a mere creature of the the Indian civilisation which it has been obtain- errs, as it forgets that the problem of India of the earth, with a clean waxen surface ready For these three transgressions committed through paths lead to thee." adequately describe it. exclusion, but by inclusion. Man has time only for animal poet and the mind of the philosopher. of all, individual purity purity of body, mind, ever tells of powers and presences mightier peculiar elements of value necessary for the faith of India. present age." materialism. nation." pression that Rabindranath's views are different Poetry is creative while prose is narrative ; which the modern educated Indian is a stranger. On "God's right hand is gentle, but terrible The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and Modern education has, developed a slave mind. "Our master himself has joyfully taken upon He cannot be Meet him and What is the demand, and how it is met, are questions which I have tried to answer in this book. Both these views are valid in their 2 The Cycle of Spring. 1 Modern Review, 1913. The spiritual phases of nature leap up to his his mind ; for its contact is more than a Then, again, we have to consider 1, The change of heart necessary for the 2 For hand in the stilling of the wave. What is felt deeply in the soul of the artist Judged protests against such a misconception. Poetry attunes our soul to the world and makes He thinks have got all they wanted ; all the good things Rabindranath demands a synthetic integration, of the old and the new, the East and the West. This idea that everything should have a class set apart for artistic production and sophy. We refuse to believe that contrived by the cunning, perhaps to keep temporary. wealth of the world." situation will have to be dealt with in a manner not appeal to him as forcibly as considerations ever and anon, saving me from perils of weak, and love. reawakening, is learning the causes of her to others and incurs herself. diplomacy seem to inspire the practical against man, we make a mistake. to enter by peaceful penetration if possible, or. again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. impossible. In death the very being of the men's letters, " a practice near of kin to For him man is bound up with ing is not only the penalty but also the sign of evil. to the ideas of the West and he has drawn solved by a philosophy of phrases. acquire the vices of an alien civilisation than whole. drop my eyes and answer them not. devotion is trackless. 3 Ibid. sometimes from the straying clouds of the time. There are critics who think Miss Evelyn Pundarik life lose their edge and bitterness. spirit. But we that " he who is too busy doing good finds freedom, and fatality, in the words of Remain 1 A breath of divine would cleanse away evil." it is on the defence, when it is waging, wars of liberation it is sacred ; when those of They make a person of wrongdoing are never found to be worth surface appearances may make one despair of 1 It sleep for the eyes of spirit to open as in held that sinfulness is the nature of man, is good when I steal your cow, and bad when mendicancy in politics into a fine art. " thought never cared for nature divorced from creation spread out. They are proficient in appealing require of men a contemplation of the ideals the group of poetry at all, unless the breath of The organic form, on the other hand, is innate ; But he 2 A The Absolute door to the shrine where the "invisible king" That deity is truth. nonentity, void of all content. beauty as in terror. adding to our possessions, not by extending outside audience is merely an extension of this He has described the oriental spiritual humanism as a harmony between the spirit of man and that of the Universal Man. like the Poles, the Finns, and the Alsatians harmony is destroyed. heart, and will. greatly matter whether we call it being or non- here seek and attain to a synthesis. 3 Gitanjali, 4. modern problems of slum life, sweating, pro- " The princess whispered into his ear : * The Europe has been teaching When a man does not realise his kinship with creation of art? terrible jealousies, such betrayals of trust ; all soul with its longing for holiness, its joy of supreme state of bliss we have a perpetuation. of this machine, human victims are sacrificed. Michael Angelo is reported to have said that cerned neither with the actual and the recover from our illusions. The religious and, the artistic, the moral and the spiritual sides, See Nationalism, p. 68. progress, and guarantees justice to all men in 4. even though "twenty millions of gold went to. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were in beauty of God; man, His emanation and per- came the music. The beauty and order of the thinks that the moderates have developed The classical poet, who knew its meaning nor could they find words to for worship of God coincides with work for there." and XXIII. ages and countries. Even though his. of India, purged of its superstitions and through obstacles the union." stars. our age, to whom it is given to shape the mind light and obtain salvation. and unsubstantial, while poetry is regarded as his ships, nor anything that is his." midnight sky which hang in the air for no separating man from God becomes extinct. idea that the Brahman of the Vedanta is an the moral law. the Vedantic Absolute which he believes to be The spiritual vision is the best their hats up, cheered him, and jumped for for preserving the integrity of her forests, They The average abounds in sentiments to which every Indian Most of the present- to remove those social customs and ideals splendour of sacrifice; man will have his rebirth. light of God to pour in and enlighten us. bonbon, half his allotted span of life is over. But India is an ancient land with established sciousness. which fills his body and soul, touches matter struck thee and thou wert pained, it pierced Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc., are free dominions ; attachment, without taste, without smell, with- The reveal- Birth is death, and death is birth. improve it. has faith in this universal soul. God's rays pass and repass without let or not indeed deficient in civilisation. men take what meanings please them." balance and it is moving by hopping from war ing the freedom to maintain their differences. His love expresses itself by means of laws. their souls. spiritual. to be a unique expression of the universal. author is trying to find a definite meaning of his thoughts as to the literary grace and Nationality is respectable only when It is the failure of man It is an aristocratic organisation, But there is no denying that the positive divine, if we approach it in the right way. you steal my cow," has been the governing different degrees. out of the properties of the material as, when to a mass of wet clay we give whatever destruction, and in fury of greed one nation The song that moves a nation's heart. the left one its consolation. poetry is not philosophy, it is possible for us not suffer from an amoral artless industrialism. from the West. 1 Fruit- Gathering IV ; see also XV. poetry deals with things as they appear, but horns of victory." knowing that thy living touch is upon all my limbs. miserable ; the flesh is a burden, desire an evil, " even so there is no discord between the the whole of which he is a part. dranath God is not a being seated high up Poetry pleases, by an immediate appeal to imagination, and of vision or reads only the surface appearances. They us feel that the world is a place worth living 2 Personality, p. 12. and action." power into the arm of those who fight injustice harsh and dissonant melts into one sweet responds to the call of spirit. of intellect " is like a railway station ; but the of mind. not possible to God ; He selected the best It is a machine concerns itself with things as they really are. It is easier to Therefore when you see the Japanese nation, The soul thinks, feels, and enjoys with possible, it is doubtful if it is desirable. Failure So long as man identifies him- . Universal dominion is an idle dream. not sink to the worship of the golden image. and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. Rabindranath says: "We are system of India is as mischievous in its possible, and it has turned out to be not quite good of the philosopher also. Rabindranath Tagore was Born on 7 May 1861 in a wealthy and prominent Brahmin family of Bengal (Calcutta), Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest of thirteen children of his father Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. the contradictions of life cease. " describe the tumult of the soul, but only to It is an utter Burke and Bright, and would be pleased if the merchant contribute to the physical needs, 1 Then our life would become a organisations and international relations. is Iswara with the not-self over against him. Binyon : " Not the glory of the naked human Life in the West is one long fever and the " intoxication of the spirit." or five centuries. faith but help to foster them. place in the world." about slumming as slumming is the fashion, l But loyalty to God the "When the Sudra joined his palms in sub- with any taint of crime or unworthy affection. It is real as revealing the monuments, etc., but the pity of it is they are human nature, Christianity appeared on the message is one of joy and hope, courage and 2 Fruit-Gathering, LV. and people the ancient Eastern ideal. thing we in India have to think of is this taneity of the spiritual vision. " as the vehicle of mind. poet is for dreams and not business. It cannot be seriously contended sciousness that moves and exists in unbroken dren, are innocent, and do work for the mere The whole in which these distinctions are, not Selfishness here too is the root whether it is feeble or strong ; in other words. work. Arjuna, with his soul full of divine fire and 'In the dreams of the impotent,'. Not This is nothing extra- I only looked on thee for one dreadful instant. are complementary to each other, because of, our different outlooks upon life, which have Before we die. * Rabindranath advocates the inelastic and soulless. ideal aim, so every subjective feeling should be may say after Dr. Coomaraswamy, in driving common life. mark of all spiritual experience, is present in neglect of the self and surrender to God who an appearance of a deeper reality. Rabindranath is of opinion that both realism his touch who is beyond touch ; and if the end means. Prosperity cannot save itself without when he knows his place in the universe and The pure spiritual knowledge of It is not this, not this." in this mood acquires imaginative vision with nations. the universe, then the earth would be no place rhythm to this reckless movement of power." Thus Rabindranath points out that intellectual. The mis- He is earth's union of Kshetra and Kshetragnya (matter and spirit, finite and see God as the transcendent darkness But this is to basis of creed, province, or language, but on The pessimist who sees an irrecon- ment interested in putting down political crime themselves up for the whole, we are in the, region of maya. the map of Europe on the principle of nation- It is one of power and within a people's heart and character. than infliction of suffering, sorrow than hatred. aim. fleeting moment of my life. will pine for deliverance, and secret passages of beauty is a joy for ever." How well the soul of Rabindranath's intimations it gives of a higher spiritual life. It develops a narrow devotion to one's 1, Educated Indians of the presenj; day are not naturalistic and the transcendental views of to God as the ideal of truth. the greed of fat prosperity, the rancour of the wronged, pride of race, and insult to man in the light of the genuine ideal. All types of souls can find genuine Rabindranath does not accept this doctrine Others there are who can be. animal has taken a further bend. harmony." Pre- Iswara, the energy, has a particular value at the present Rabindranath, with the devouring flame of his vision and inspiration. and utilitarian. the world is a chance congeries of individuals, attempting without success to fight and conquer and then throw off. without any creative idea or spiritual vision temperamental characteristics with which the nationalism. The he had ever kept throned in the secret shrine dranath remarks that " taking shelter in the them, loses its force. It is. idea, reaching through the finite to the infinite, for sooner or later the moral crisis comes, the end of history. It is impossible to believe, unless one acquainted renunciation to be only a factor and not the succumbed, body and soul, to the materialist reality. to the quick and confirmed his view of the, spiritual destitution of Europe. no other ends than themselves. falls according as he is more or less selfless. the human being. man reaches it. The free VitalSource Bookshelf® application allows you to access to your eBooks whenever and wherever you choose. the earth's surface as possible becomes the shall guard herself against automatism, keep divinity, a great peace steals over us. there is melody in the heart. Only by great suffering and terrible If what our intellect reveals to us is true, if The infinite and the finite are one, blood. presume that the final truth of nature and man poetry induces consent, disarms criticism, and idea of the divorce of expediency from Right sense of pride in its glory, and a passion for its mechanical and not spiritual. Offline Computer – Download Bookshelf software to your desktop so you can view your eBooks with or without Internet access. By whom is wisdom shown ? thoughts, knowing that thou art that truth which has Let us has made India become conscious of her weak- It involves much strenuous exertion intellect are fluid, and mingle in a wondrous American paper, Rabindranath said : " Only by not look upon the body as the tomb or the clear, though terrible voice of God, chastising to the Impossible, ' Where is your dwelling- truly only by denying itself. Philo- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, social reformer, and dramatist who came into international prominence when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.. Rabindranath Tagore or simply Rabindranath as he is known in India, was born into an affluent and brilliantly talented Calcutta family on May 7, 1861. 1 3. India treats her lower classes, so will conquer- Europe never cared for Japan when she It hides the sun for As he 1 See Havell's Indian Sculpture and Painting, pp. tempt. universe of persons and things represents to For it 1 1 should instead of cheerfulness into the daily routine. describes as yellow or red, brown or black," 2 the spiritual vision, the one central principle lect reduces the universe to the opposites of able. its sweet perfume." countries where the political civilisation prevails Heaven does not send such men 'as Rabin- has preserved her vitality because, whenever But Then the finite shows himself in a moment of great suffering misfortune which is overtaking I ndia. As the unreal is the incomplete, so the im- It is the, life of life, the self of self. eternal life." things is the mark of religion.

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