![]() Surprised and adored by the aroma of the flowers I walk on this earth, barefoot on the grass Here I am, with a place to be, a role to play Which fills my heart with wonder and I sing.Īlthough Tagore himself has translated it, I’m not very satisfied with this translation and so I’m posting here another one that I’ve got from the internet. That the gifts of the infinite are strewn in the dust I feel the tenderness of the grass in my forest walk, [My heart sings at the wonder of my placeĪt the feel in my pulse of the rhythm of creationĬadenced by the swing of the endless time. Kan petechi, chokh melechi, dharar buke pran dhelechi, Phuler gandhe chamak lege utheche mon mete, Ghase ghase pa phelechi boner pathe jete, Stabdho sarbo kolahal, shantimagno characharĢ.(Aakashbhora surjo tara, biswobhara pran,Īasim kaler je hillole joar bhatay bhuban dole Tumi aachho more chahi aami chahi toma pane Tumi aachho, biswanath, aseem rahasyamaajheĪnanta e deshkaler, aganyo e deepta loke, I’ve got two more songs of Tagore and their translations which help us feel the scientific poet more deeply … I’m posting them here …Īami manabo ekakee bhrami biswaye, bhrami biswaye These days when science is seen separate from philosophy, and poets from a scientific background are more often than not, ridiculed, it is important we get deeper into the roots of one of the finest poets of the modern world. Lest we forget – that he was a philosopher with a strong scientific mind in place. i look up only to find beyond the backdrop of hundreds of extinguished stars nataraj, silent and lonelyįor too long have we seen this amazing man as a bard. i see the colourful costumes left over by hundreds of actors and actresses across the ages outside the arena of the theatre. today as i enter the final act of departure, the flame weakens, the shadows reveal the illusory character of the play, and the costumes of grief and hap piness begin to slacken. i too have come from the eternal and the imperceptible like a spark in a tiny remote corner of space and time. He assimilated and internalised the scientific spirit and weaved it into the very fabric of his philosophy and his artistic creations. In one of his last poems from Arogya, Tagore writes- this gigantic creation is a fireworks display of suns and stars across the skies on a cosmic time scale. To Tagore, the scientific truths were not mere abstractions and formulas but concrete living truths that inspired his poems and songs. It was this broad scientific mind which drove his idea of universal brotherhood and spirituality – a reason why he opposed nationalism and emphasised on education. It was the miracles of science that made his mind wander. Tagore, in the preface to his only book on science, ‘Visva Parichay’, dedicated to the scientist Satyendranath Bose, wrote about his fascination for science from his childhood. In 1930, when Tagore met Albert Einstein in Berlin, the scientist asked, “ do you believe in the divine as isolated from the world?” The poet replied, “ not isolated the infinite personality of man comprehends the universe, and the truth of the universe is human truth.” The scientist smiled, “ then I am more religious than you are.“ In 1928, Werner Heisenberg spent some time in India as Tagore’s guest. Tagore had numerous meaningful conversations with the leading scientists of his time. Not only did Tagore help his friend with money to carry on with his path-breaking experiments in England, he also wrote extensively about them. ![]() ![]() Acharya had dedicated his life in search for reason in the workings of nature, for a unity in the diversity of nature, a synergism between spiritualism and reason. His lifelong and intimate friendship with Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose also helped him develop a reverence for science. Tagore was a quintessential poet-philosopher with a deeply rational and inquiring mind who strove for freedom from every possible limitation of the human mind. Well, one of the last men standing in this long legacy of thinkers who brought science and philosophy together was Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. It was after the advent of nuclear and quantum physics and the more complex string theory in the early 20th century, when the path of science and philosophy got separated. Newton spent the later half of his life in Biblical interpretations. Some of the earliest philosophers, like Archimedes, Aristotle made way for great poetry and scientific theories. Poetry and science have a common connection – philosophy.
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