Rabindranath Tagore - Tumblr Posts
চিত্ত যেথা ভয়শূন্য, উচ্চ যেথা শির,
জ্ঞান যেথা মুক্ত, যেথা গৃহের প্রাচীর
আপন প্রাঙ্গণতলে দিবসশর্বরী
বসুধারে রাখে নাই খণ্ড ক্ষুদ্র করি,
যেথা বাক্য হৃদয়ের উৎসমুখ হতে
উচ্ছ্বসিয়া উঠে, যেথা নির্বারিত স্রোতে
দেশে দেশে দিশে দিশে কর্মধারা ধায়
অজস্র সহস্রবিধ চরিতার্থতায়,
যেথা তুচ্ছ আচারের মরুবালুরাশি
বিচারের স্রোতঃপথ ফেলে নাই গ্রাসি,
পৌরুষেরে করে নি শতধা, নিত্য যেথা
তুমি সর্ব কর্ম চিন্তা আনন্দের নেতা,
নিজ হস্তে নির্দয় আঘাত করি, পিতঃ;
ভারতেরে সেই স্বর্গে করো জাগরিত৷
— রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
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.
— Rabindranath Tagore
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
—Rabindranath Tagore
Not sure if this one counts but here:
On the seashores of endless worlds, children play.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu
It is fascinating how the element of water attracts us, it is a part of us and we are part of a whole.
Anyone who doesn't want to recognise this has never really wanted to understand nature.
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From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.
Rabindranath Tagore
365 Days of Poetry - Day 50: * I touch God in my song as the hill touches the far-away sea with its waterfall. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.
Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a lover truly knows that he is loved.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
In love I pay my endless debt to thee for what thou art. * Rabindranath Tagore
365 Days of Poetry - Day 60: * DREAM GIRL
God alone did not create you, my girl - You are also the creation of men From the core of their heart They have endowed you with charm. With golden threads of similes Your dress the poet weaves. To immortalize your image The painter puts on your face An ever fresh glow. So many colours, scents and costumes - From the seas come pearls From the mines comes gold Heaps of flowers come From the garden in spring Insects sacrifice their lives To colour your feet. With your coyness, your dresses And with all those trimmings You keep yourself beyond easy reach And a burning longing you always ignite - Your one half is made of flesh and blood Your other half is the fantasy of our mind. * Rabindranath Tagore
Mermaid 🧜♀️
For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.“ ~ Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet and artist, 1861-1941)
art by Kelly Vivanco from California, USA