RABINDRANATH TAGORE, THE WONDER OF A BENGALI: He questioned the sky with emotion, look for the tears of the night

“The small, naked, looking at the sky, and in his mind astray climbed a question: Where ever the road to heaven? Heaven did not answer, only the stars sparkled, tears in the silent night.” He, a Bengali, in 1913 Nobel Prize for literature, he created schools, hospitals and roads, but also the Visva Bharati University, a special place where art and life come together in respect for nature. Rabindranath Tagore, the son of a wealthy Brahmin, he studied in England, and it is in the language of that country who wrote poems, books and songs, always with an emphasis on love for nature and God, but also for the physicality of human passions. he was born in Calcutta in one day in May of 1861, but did not know that he spent his entire life in order to achieve the embrace between two cultures – Western and Eastern – from which he has drawn fully, to give us the wonder of living his words, until one day August 1941 Since then, the ones that he has written for us are tears in the silent nights, but reading what he has given us, they return to be twinkling stars.

LIFE OF MY LIFE

by Rabindranath Tagore

 

“Life of my life,

Always try to keep

my body pure,

knowing that your caress living

I beat all the members.

 

Always try to remove

all falsehood from my thoughts,

knowing that you are the truth

that in mind

I turned on the light reason.

 

I shall ever try to drive

every evil from my heart,

and to let love in flower,

knowing that you have your home

in the depths of the heart.

 

And always try in my actions

to reveal you,

knowing that it is your power

that gives me strength to act.”