Heart of God. Rabindranath Tagore

Worker of the Universe 37 My Last Song 38 What Divine Drink 62 The Grasp of Your Hand 39 The Music of Love 63 Let My Song Be Simple 40 No Night of Ease 64 My All 41 O World 65 My Country 42 Playtime 66 My Last Word 43 When the Heart Is Hard 67 Your Love 44 Singing 68 Life of My Life 45 When You Save Me 69 Light 46 Let My Country Awake 70 The Fullness of Peace 48 Nothing But Your Love 72 Obstinate Are the Shackles 49 The Sky and the Nest 73 Lost Time 50 Now in the Evening 74 The Infinity of Your Love 51 Gifts 76 I Want You, Only You 52 You Have Made Me Endless 77 Rain 53 Friends Whom I Knew Not 78 Darkness and Light 54 You Hide Yourself 79 The Stream of Life 55 Freed at Last! 80 Strike at the Root 56 Eternal Traveler 82 Thanksgiving 57 Worship 83 Take, O Take 59 The Perfect Union 84 Time 60 Your Light, My Light 85 Tears of the Earth 61 Your Sunbeams 86 Yours 87

      FOREWORD

      Modern Indian thought makes a noble attempt to get really clear about itself in Rabindranath Tagore. Born in 1861, he is at the same time thinker, poet, and musician. He has himself translated his important works into English. The attention of Europe was directed to him by his becoming the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. For many years he lived at Santiniketan, in Bengal, where he built up a school and college on modern educational lines.

      With Tagore, ethical world and life affirmation has completely triumphed. It governs his worldview and will suffer nothing of world and life negation beside it. This has all the significance of a really great deed. A process of development that has been going on for centuries reaches in him its natural conclusion. He demands that we should belong to God with the soul and serve God actively in the world.

      Joy in life and joy in creation belong, according to Tagore, to our human nature. He is as little able as the others who had attempted it before him to really found the worldview of ethical affirmation on knowledge of the universe. But the Goethe of India gives expression to his personal experience that this is the truth in a manner more profound and more powerful and more charming than anyone had ever done before. This completely noble and harmonious thinker belongs not only to his own people but to humanity.

      —Albert Schweitzer

      INTRODUCTION

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