Some of Tagore's Paintings..

Only in love ...

Are unity and duality not in a conflict....

                    - Tagore.                                                                                                                               

                                                                      

" Love does not claim possession

but gives freedom ..."

                            - Tagore.

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3.  I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement.

     The light of thy music illuminates the world. The life breath of thy music runs from sky to sky. The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on. 

     My heart longs to join thy song ,but vainly struggle for voice. I would speak, but speech breaks not into song , and I cry out baffled. Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless music , my master.

Words to understand :

1.  BAFFLE :  If something baffle you, you can not understand it or explain it.

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      When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; and look to thy face,and tears come to my eyes.

          All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony - and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.

         I know thou takest pleasure in my singing . I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence .

         I touch by the edge of the far- spreading wing of my song thy feet which I could never aspire to reach.

       Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

          Words to understand :

1. DISSONANT :  (Dissonance) Lack of agreement or harmony between things.

2. Adoration : It is a feeling of great admiration and love for someone and something.

  

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Thou hast made me endless , such is thy pleasure .  This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again , and fillest it ever with fresh life .

This little flute of reed thou hast carried over hills and dales , and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new .

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little hand loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable .

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine . Ages pass, and still thou pourest and still there is room to fill.

Some words to know what they actually means:

1. FRAIL : Someone who is frail is not very strong or healthy.

2. DALES : Valleys 

3. UTTERANCE : Someone's utterances are the things they say.

4. INEFFABLE : You use ineffable to say that something is so great or extreme that it can not be described in words.

        

               

               GITANJALI ..a collection of 103 English poems translated by him from the original Bengali , is a masterpiece which won him the Nobel Prize in 1913 .

      These immensely touching verses were written in Bengali in 1910 , after he lost his father , wife , second daughter , and the youngest son. Gitanjali's canvas encompasses life's experiences with an innocense and simplicity that one does not find elsewhere in literature.

Tagore

                                   Tagore produced a massive amount of literature in the Bengali language. His works includes numerous novels , short stories , collection of songs, dance -drama , political and personal essays. Some prominent examples are GITANJALI (song offering) ,Gora (fair face).

Tagore was knighted in 1995 but he returned the title in 1919 to protest the JALIAWALA BAGH MASSACRE . He was internationalist in sprit , stressing the need for the dialogue between the world's diverse cultures. Much of the last 25 years of his life was spent in lecture tours abroad . Yet in the same period he produced 21 collections of writings .

He died in Culcutta on Aug 7 , 1941.

Tagore - The Personality....

                                      The Gitanjali...

                             Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a poet novelist , playwright , musician and a painter. He became Asia's first Nobel Laureatewhen he won the 1913 Nobel prize in Literature.

                              Tagore was born in Calcutta on May 1861, the son of the well known philosopher and religious reformer DEVENDRANATH TAGORE . He was sent to England to study the law, but returned as he found it uninteresting .He began writing poetry early in life and in 1890 he published ' MANASI', a collection that demonstrated his genius . Most of his life spent in his native Bengal ,and much of his writing dealt with the land and its people.