Sadhana: The Realisation of Life - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2357287667 ISBN 13: 9782357287662

Verlag: Alicia Editions, 2021

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"Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all."-Rabindranath Tagore. Sadhana is a Sanskrit term referring to a spiritual discipline or daily practice through which the individual seeks a living connection with the divine. In this work, Rabindranath Tagore explores the meaning of that spiritual path and the vision of life expressed in the ancient wisdom of India. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the Bengali poet, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate in Literature for Gitanjali, devoted much of his thought to awakening a deeper awareness of the unity between the human soul and the universe. His reflections invite the reader to rediscover the inner life and the harmony that links all beings. Written with simplicity and quiet depth, this work remains one of the most accessible introductions to the spiritual philosophy of India. More than a century after its first publication, it continues to speak directly to modern readers. This large print edition is presented in a clear and comfortable layout designed for easy reading. EXCERPT:"Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense. This is the noble heritage from our forefathers waiting to be claimed by us as our own, this ideal of the supreme freedom of consciousness. It is not merely intellectual or emotional, it has an ethical basis, and it must be translated into action. In the Upanishad it is said, The supreme being is all-pervading, therefore he is the innate good in all. To be truly united in knowledge, love, and service with all beings, and thus to realise one's self in the all-pervading God is the essence of goodness, and this is the keynote of the teachings of the Upanishads: Life is immense!"

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Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who was active as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, educationist and painter during the age of Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudeb, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.[a]A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bh¿nusi¿ha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism,[15] he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in his founding of Visva-Bharati University

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• Verlag: Alicia Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 2357287667
• ISBN 13: 9782357287662
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166
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