The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore

THE PHILOSOPHY OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE

In vast life’s unbounded tide They alone content may gain Who can good from ill divide Or in ignorance abide — All between is restless pain. Before Thy prescience, power divine, What is this idle sense of mine? What all the learning of the schools? What sages, priests, and pedants? — Fools! The world is Thine, from Thee it rose By Thee it ebbs, by Thee it flows. Hence, worldly lore! By whom is wisdom shown? The Eternal knows, knows all, and He alone.

OMAR.

“THE condemnation which a great man lays upon the world is to force it to explain him.” Rabindranath Tagore has not failed to force the world to come with its magazine articles and monographs to expound his views. The world - wide interest and popularity of his writings are due as much to the lofty idealism of his thoughts as to the literary grace and beauty of his writings. Rabindranath’s teaching, with its vital faith in the redeeming power of the spiritual forces and their up-building energy, has a particular value at the present moment, when the civilised world is passing through the crucible of a ghastly war which, whether or not it purges the nations of their pride and hate, lust for gold and greed of land, at least proclaims, in no uncertain tones, the utter bankruptcy of materialism.