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absolute action activity appearance aspect attain avidya beauty become Bengali Bodhi bondage bonds Brahma Brahma-vihara Buddha civilisation complete consciousness create creation Crown 8vo death desire dharma earth endless ERNEST RHYS eternal EVELYN UNDERHILL everything everywhere evil existence expression extend fact fact of death feel finite flower freedom fulfilment gain GITANJALI give God's harmony heart highest human idea ignorance immortal India individual infinite inner knowledge light limits live lose man's manifestation maya meaning merely mind moral nature ness never Nirvana object ourselves pain paramatman perfect physical play pleasure poem possessions PROBLEM OF EVIL purpose reach realise reality recognise relation reveals rishis sacrifice SADHANA Sanskrit satyam savitar seeking selfish separate SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE song spirit sufferings supreme soul TAGORE thee things thou tion transcends Translated true true vision truly truth ultimate union unity universal Upanishads say Vishvakarma words
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Էջ 152 - Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
Էջ 8 - When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.
Էջ 14 - They who having attained the supreme soul in knowledge were filled with wisdom, and having found him in union with the soul were in perfect harmony with the inner self ; they having realised him in the heart were free from all selfish desires, and having experienced him in all the activities of the world, had attained calmness. The rishis were they who having reached the supreme God from all sides had found abiding peace, had become united with all, had entered into the life of the Universe...
Էջ 3 - divide and rule" in our mental outlook, which begets in us a habit of securing all our conquests by fortifying them and separating them from one another. We divide nation and nation, knowledge and knowledge, man and nature. It breeds in us a strong suspicion of whatever is beyond the barriers we have built, and everything has to fight hard for its entrance into our recognition. When the first Aryan invaders appeared in India it was a vast land of forests, and the new-comers rapidly took advantage...
Էջ 41 - The revealment of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the soul of man.
Էջ 8 - The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it purifies his heart ; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind ; for its contact is more than a physical contact—it is a living presence.
Էջ 47 - THE question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection, or, in other words, why there is creation at all. We must take it for granted that it could not be otherwise; that creation must be imperfect, must be gradual, and that it is futile to ask the question, Why we are?
Էջ 125 - In the great western continent we see that the soul of man is mainly concerned with extending itself outwards; the open field of the exercise of power is its field. Its partiality is entirely for the world of extension, and it would leave asidenay, hardly believe in—that field of inner consciousness which is the field of fulfilment.