Rabindranath Tagore - Indian culture and Tradition

Overview [ 1861 - 1941] :

Ravindra Nath Tagore is one of the precious gems of India. Also known by Gurudev, Kabiguru, his pen name Bhanu Singha Thakur and Biswakabi. The one to tried to read the face of India, Who tried to find the lost confidence of India. Who gave their whole life for relief and realization of humanity from suffering. Who wrote the Vedas of India. Gave new life to the construction of Indian literature, Culture and made it stand in the international courtyard. He is the one who has made realize others the Beauty of art.

Introduction :

Ravindra Nath Tagore was born in Calcutta on 6 May 1861 in Kolkata in a wealthy brahmin family. His father was Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, A serious thinker, was a guide to an extraordinary talent-rich of  Brahmin society. Tagore's mother Sarada Devi, died when he was of a very young age.
He has reshaped Bengali and music, Indian art with his contextual modernism in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Tagore was an eminent personality who was a writer, composer, playwright, essayist, and painter.

About Early Life :

Ravindra Nath Tagore's education was not done according to today's education system. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish her studied there. He did not find peace in the turbulent environment of the city. Sitting in the lap of nature, he understood its main editors and ideas. Tagore studied and understood the Vedas and the world's best creations at home. Gurudev's entire life was in meditation and penance. As literature and art continued to influence his life, simplicity entered his life.
After Returning from England and after marriage till 1901 he has spent most of his time in Sealdah ( Now in Bangladesh) in the family  1898, estate. In 1898 his children and his wife started living with him. He travelled far and wide in his region and saw the life of rural and poor people very closely. He wrote many short stories based on the background of rural Bengal.  Between 1878 to 1932 he travelled in 30 countries. The main purpose of his visits was to spread his literary works to those who do not understand Bengali. Kolkata University conferred him with the degree of detail. This great poet died on 7 August 1941. Tagore gave the message of humanity to the world. He stressed the unity of mankind. As per Tagore's view the complete development of mankind in Tagore's view, The social culture, and religious diversity must come together.

Achievements :

Tagore was a world-renowned poet litterateur and philosopher. Rabindranath's Gitanjali is a collection of poems, It made him win him the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the only Indian litterateur to have received the Nobel Prize. He was also the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize and the first non-European to receive a Nobel  Prize in literature. He is the only writer who wrote the national anthem of two countries i.e' Jana Gana Mana' for India and 'Amar Sonar Bangla' for Bangladesh. Gurudev gave a new direction to Bangla literature and music. Tagore played a very significant role in bringing the goodness of Indian civilization to the west and the goodness of Northern civilization here. His idol can be experienced from here when he wrote his first poem when he was just 8 years old. At the age of 16 with the prefix name of 'Bhanu Singha,'  his poetry was published.

He was a good nationalist and discouraging the British he asked for Independence. Rabindra Nath Tagore got 'Knighthood' as the title for his contribution towards literature. He renounced his 'Knighthood' title after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Ravindra Nath Tagore has invested his entire Nobel prize money in the construction of "Vishwa Bharti" School in Shantiniketan. 

At the age of 67, he has drawn his first independent painting and many of his works were successfully exhibited throughout Europe. He was being invited by Albert Einstein at his home. Both talked about science and religion, and their chat has been documented in the “Note on the Nature of Reality”. 

Famous Poetry of Rabindra Nath Tagore:

Freedom

" Freedom from fear is the freedom

 I claim for you my motherland!

Freedom from the burden of the ages,

bending your head, breaking your back,

bending your eyes to the beckoning call of the future. "

Let Me Not Forget

"As the day pass in the crowded market of this world

and my hands grow full with the daily profits,

let me ever feel that I have gained nothing

let me not forget for a moment,

let me carry the pages of this sorrow in my dreams

and in my wakeful hours."

The Boat

" I must launch out my boat. The languid hours pass on the shore- Alas for me! The spring has done its flowering and taken leave. And now with the burden of faded futile flowers, I wait and linger."

Leave This

"Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!

Whom dost thou worship in this lonely 

a dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?

Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!

He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground

and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.

Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down 

on the dusty soil!"

 Inspiring Quotes of Rabindra Nath Tagore

  "If you shut the door to the errors, the truth will be shut out."

                                                                         

"Death is not extinguishing out the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come"

                                                                                                 

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

                                                                                  

O Woman, you are not merely the handwork of God, but also of men, these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts... You are a one-half woman and one-half dream.

                                                                                                         
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. "  

      
                                                               
" Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."

                                                                                                               
"You can't cross the sea by standing and staring at the water."

                                                                                 
"What is Art? It is a response of man's creative soul to call of Real"

        "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."