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TAGORE’S GITANJALI: AN INTERNAL CONFLICT BETWEEN SPIRITUAL LONGINGS AND EARTHLY DESIRE

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Rabindranath Tagore’s spirituality targeted on the indwelling presence of God, leads human existence from partiality to fullness. In “The spirituality of Rabindranath Tagore; „The faith of an artist, spirituality for Rabindranath Tagore is the dynamic principle the touches every elements of lifestyles and is the guiding principle that “Leads human existence from partiality to fullness.” existence’s adventure, for Tagore achieves its achievement even though the innovative interaction an artist or a poet, and now not even though renunciations of the arena. He characterizes his spirituality as that of an artist. This means a exchange in one’s attitude to the arena; one must more faraway from an egoistic appropriation of the arena. This results in studies of the world as supply of struggling and happiness, to a creative experience of world, in which it’s far the supply unconditional joy. Tagore writes, “Pleasure flews through the universe, the solar and moon drink of it A full measure. The mild of the pleasure of goodness stays ever effulgent…… Why are you all through yourself coffined to your own ego? Vital to the spirituality of Tagore inside the Upanishad nation that the whole thing is Brahman, and Brahman is completely satisfied. Invited the poet to his outstanding banquet of sight and symphony as he wants to witness the eternal harmony of his creation although the eyes and ears of the poet who has been made limitless with ever clean life. So he undergoes the experience of entire existence and is so daring passionate and but so saintly. The poet in by no means indifferent to the sordid suffering and several worldly diversions. His dreams are many and cry is pitiful however he is grateful to God for saving him with difficult refusals is there through making him worthy of divine love. “It was my song that taught me the entire lesion I ever learnt, they showed me the secret direction,” Says the poet. He marked his poetic spirituality with the phrases, “on this playhouse of infinite bureaucracy. i have had may also play and here have I caught sight of him this is formless.” Gitanjali is a poetic diary no longer only diary it poetic spiritual bee, unconsciously recording with precision the poetic internal maximum non secular desires and aspirations. These songs are characterized through a high-quality style of moods and tactics. K.R.S.Iyenger says‟ it’s miles pure poetry and pure poetry aspires to a circumstance of prayer, the sort of poetry is 1/2 a prayer shape under, half a whisper from above; the prayer evoking the response, because the whisper provoking the prayer, and constantly prayer and whisper chiming into music, Gitanjali is full of such poetry.

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