In this episode, we journey into the quiet radiance of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, exploring it as a work of lyrical devotion and universal spiritual insight. We discuss how Tagore blends the intimacy of Bhakti tradition with the ecstatic longing of Sufi mysticism, shaping a vision of the Divine that is tender, immediate, and profoundly personal. Through luminous yet straightforward imagery—of sky, dust, river, flute—Tagore expresses the soul’s movement toward humility, surrender, and loving communion with the Eternal Beloved.We also consider the philosophical undercurrents that move through these poems: the rejection of ritualistic religion, the insistence on inner awakening, and the recognition of God among the simplest of humans—the labourer, the farmer, the forgotten poor. Drawing on key examples from Gitanjali, we examine how Tagore’s poetic voice transforms spiritual yearning into human compassion.Finally, we reflect on the English edition of Gitanjali—with W. B. Yeats’s influential introduction—and how it carried Tagore’s thought across continents, contributing to his Nobel Prize in 1913 and shaping the Western imagination of Indian poetic spirituality. The episode invites students and listeners not only to study Gitanjali, but to experience it—as quiet prayer, as philosophical meditation, and as a profound affirmation of the sacred within the human heart.

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