The Beautiful Poems from Gitanjali

Rabindranath Tagore, was an Indian poet, philosopher, and Nobel laureate. He was born in Calcutta, into a rich family, the son of the philosopher Debendranath Tagore. He began to write poetry as a child; his first book emerges when he was 17 years old. After a brief stay in England to study law, he returned to India, where he rapidly became the most important and popular author of the regal era, writing poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. He was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in literature.

Gitanjali is  a composed works of over hundred poems, full of life, full of encouragement and full of insights. Gitanjali speaks of life, from birth  to the death, the life and man’s quest for answers from God. Be it song or rain, nature or god, each poems show the ease of feelings. In this post, we have published few of the most beautiful poems from Gitanjali.

Mind Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up

into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason

has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Purity

Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing

that thy loving touch is upon all my limbs.

I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing

that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.

I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my

love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it

is thy power gives me strength to act.

Song Unsung

The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.

I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;

only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.

The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.

I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice;

only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.

The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor;

but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.

I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

Friend

Art thou abroad on this stormy night

on thy journey of love, my friend?

The sky groans like one in despair.

I have no sleep tonight.

Ever and again I open my door and look out on

the darkness, my friend!

I can see nothing before me.

I wonder where lies thy path!

By what dim shore of the ink-black river,

by what far edge of the frowning forest,

through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading

thy course to come to me, my friend?

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Bapu and His Hind Swarajaya

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , also known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu (Father of Nation), was one of the greatest leaders of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil defiance, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, human rights, and freedom across the world.

The son of a senior government administrator, Gandhi was born and raised in a Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famed by fighting for the social rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of nonviolent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong adversary of "communism" he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led countrywide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and cultural peace, ending untouchability, increasing economic independence, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book written by Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1909. It is a book in which he expresses his views on Swaraj, Modern society, Mechanisation etc.Mohandas Gandhi wrote this book in his native language, Gujarati, while traveling from London to South Africa onboard SS Kildonan Castle between November 13 and November 22, 1909. In the book Gandhi gives a judgment for the problems of kindness in modern times, the causes, and his remedy. The Gujarati edition was banned by the British on its publication in India. Gandhi then translated it into English. The English edition was not excluded by the British, who rightly concluded that the book would have little impact on the English-speaking Indians' subservience to the British and British ideas.

Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of infamy, adoration, and argument that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great leader in the struggle against racial discrimination, violence, and, just then, colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding. He says that he was after truth entrenched in devotion to God and attributed the turning points, successes, and challenges in his life to the will of God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices, celibacy, and ahimsa, a life without aggression. It is in this sense that he calls his book The Story of My Experiments with Truth, offering it also as a reference for those who would follow in his track. 

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