Oct 19, 2003 11:33 AM
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Tagore's Gitanjali as the suggests is a song offering to the Divine.It resembles the poetry of mysticism and of course Tagore's reaction to the vision of reality.Here he presents the Divine as the great affirmation , the fountain of energy , the source of life and of death , and also the belief of the vedantic doctrine''THAT ART THOU''.His lyrics are transparent and they open to us the doors of inner spaces and longing for the divine.
Tagore like a sufi saint bring out the concept reaching God through Music and when I read Tagore one inevitably remembers kabir. Tagore echoes his view
''Dive thou into the ocean of sweetness
Thus let all errors of life and of death pass away''
Again Tagore elaborates this concept in his Essays on Sadhana.
Gitanjali songs are the essence of bhakti tradition of the Indian thought.There is in it a mystic intoxication which gives supernal ecstasy and joy.It puts in a nutshell the experience of delight of being with the divine - which surpasses everything.
I recommend all readers of Gitanjali to read Tagore's Essays on Sadhana.Sure you will enjoy it.
