Guest guest Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Some of his poems are wonderful to analyze and compare them to the spiritual life and its objectives. I will post here another wonderful poem by Tagore that expresses thoughts, anticipations and anxieties of a spiritual seeker. Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali" 101 Ever in my life have I sought thee with my songs. It was they who led me from door to door, and with them have I felt about me, searching and touching my world. It was my songs that taught me all the lessons I ever learnt; they showed me secret paths, they brought before my sight many a star on the horizon of my heart. They guided me all the day long to the mysteries of the country of pleasure and pain, and, at last, to what palace gate have they brought me in the evening at the end of my journey? What would the poet mean exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Greetings Angie and everyone: This is a lovely poem and I would like to express what it says to me. To me, it describes how far we can be lead by knowledge and intellectual understanding. It can lead us in many directions and through many experiences but only to a certain point. In the end we reach a point where as the great saying goes, we must forget all to understand. This is what I feel by reading this poem. I would like to add something that Tagore said in a book titled "Sadhana: The Realization of Life"- "A great poem, when analyzed, is a set of detached sounds. The reader who finds out the meaning, which is the inner medium that connects these outer sounds, discovers a perfect law all through, which is never violated in the least; the law of the evolution of ideas, the law of music and the form". This paragraph is in the chapter titled "Realization in Love", if one should choose to read it. May you all walk upright in fullness. So be it, IcapoI (Tyler) , "Angie" <oiokasti@h...> wrote: > > Some of his poems are wonderful to analyze and compare them to the > spiritual life and its objectives. I will post here another wonderful > poem by Tagore that expresses thoughts, anticipations and anxieties of > a spiritual seeker. > > > Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali" > > > > 101 > > > > Ever in my life have I sought thee > with my songs. It was they who > led me from door to door, and > with them have I felt about me, > searching and touching my world. > It was my songs that taught > me all the lessons I ever learnt; > they showed me secret paths, > they brought before my sight > many a star on the horizon of my > heart. > They guided me all the day > long to the mysteries of the > country of pleasure and pain, and, > at last, to what palace gate have > they brought me in the evening at > the end of my journey? > > > What would the poet mean exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Greetings Tyler, Thanks for your reply, that was a very nice paragraph from the sadhana book by Tagore. I believe that it refers, at least up to a certain point, to the inner sounds of nada yoga. Vould we interprete it this way? Hari Om , "icapoi" <icapoi> wrote: "A great poem, when > analyzed, is a set of detached sounds. The reader who finds out the > meaning, which is the inner medium that connects these outer sounds, > discovers a perfect law all through, which is never violated in the > least; the law of the evolution of ideas, the law of music and the > form". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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