“Love is the highest bliss that man can attain to,
for through it alone he truly knows
for through it alone he truly knows
that he is more than himself,
and that he is at one with the All.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Love Leading the Pilgrim
“Man is indeed abroad to satisfy needs which are more to him than
food and clothing. He is out to find himself. Man’s history is the
history of his journey to the unknown in quest of the realisation of his
immortal self – his soul. Through the rise and fall of empires; through
the building up gigantic piles of wealth and the ruthless scattering of
them upon the dust; through the creation of vast bodies of symbols that
give shape to his dreams and aspirations, and the casting of them away
like the playthings of an outworn infancy; through his forging of magic
keys with which to unlock the mysteries of creation, and through his
throwing away of this labour of ages to go back to his workshop and work
up afresh some new form; yes, through it all man is marching from epoch
to epoch towards the fullest realisation of his soul, – the soul which
is greater than the things man accumulates, the deeds he accomplishes,
the theories he builds; the soul whose onward course is never checked by
death or dissolution.
Man’s mistakes and failures have by no means been trifling or small,
they have strewn his path with colossal ruins; his sufferings have been
immense, like birth-pangs for a giant child; they are the prelude of a
fulfilment whose scope is infinite. Man has gone through and is still
undergoing martyrdoms in various ways, and his institutions are the
altars he has built whereto he brings his daily sacrifices, marvellous
in kind and stupendous in quantity. All this would be absolutely
unmeaning and unbearable if all along he did not feel that deepest joy
of the soul within him, which tries its divine strength by suffering and
proves its exhaustless riches by renunciation.
Yes, they are coming, the pilgrims, one and all – coming to their true inheritance of the world; they are ever broadening their consciousness, ever seeking a higher and higher unity, ever approaching nearer to the one central Truth which is all-comprehensive.”
Yes, they are coming, the pilgrims, one and all – coming to their true inheritance of the world; they are ever broadening their consciousness, ever seeking a higher and higher unity, ever approaching nearer to the one central Truth which is all-comprehensive.”
Rabindranath Tagore-with Mohandas Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi at Shantiniketan-British-India-1940
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