Are Tagore lines "Where the mind is without fear" eternal?
@sathviksouvik (23251)
June 3, 2016 10:00am CST
Tagore's bengali poetry "chitto jetha bhoyshunyo" was an eternal poem.
It includes the following.
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.
Tagore wrote it in Gitanjali in 1910. the bengali version looks like this.
Chitto jetha bhoyshunyo uccho jetha shir
gyan jetha mukto jetha griher prachir
apon prangon tole dibos shorbori
basudhare rakhe nai khondo khudro kori
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@josie_ (10033)
• Philippines
3 Jun 16
One poem of Rabindranath Tagore I enjoy reading begin with these beautiful lines..."What is this light that dances at the center of my life? This golden light that dances upon the leaves, These ideal clouds sailing across the sky..." It speaks of love as the eternal truth that lie at the heart of all creation.
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