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Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) is best known as a poet, and in 1913 was the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Highly prolific, Tagore was also a composer – he wrote the national anthems for both India and Bangladesh – as well as an educator, social reformer, philosopher and painter.
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Aug 26, 2014 · As a teenager in Bengal in the 1870s, Rabindranath Tagore doodled with dexterity, and much later, in 1893, did some pencil sketches as part of a Tagore family prank. “Unlike much of his later work some of these [were] brilliant miniatures and a marvel of accurate draughtsmanship,” wrote the Bengali art critic, Kshitis Roy.
Oct 15, 2018 · The Art of Rabindranath Tagore. B orn in Calcutta into a wealthy Brahmo family, Rabindranath Tagore went on to become one of the most revered poet-philosophers of his time. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first non-Westerner to be honoured with the award. A poet, author, playwright and artist, Tagore's creative ...
Mar 24, 2013 · There is an anecdote on Tagore’s refusal to intimate any systematic study of technique for his paintings. Kalabhabvana then had already become an integral part of Santiniketan Ashram-Vidyalaya under the supervision of Acharya Nadalal. Numerous artists were honing their skills under Nandalal at that time at Santiniketan. Surrounded by all these Tagore was unflustered in his intent of creating ...
- Was Tagore A Philosopher?
- Influences of Indian Philosophy on Tagore’s Ideas
- Tagore’s Philosophical Anthropology
- Human Beings’ Search For Freedom – Freedom from The Self?
- Infinite Freedom
- Paths to Fulfilment
- Love
- Knowledge
- Action
- Conclusion
Tagore did not write a systematic philosophical treatise but authored many essays and lectures in which he depicts his worldview in a poetic way. Radhakrishnan writes about Tagore’s philosophy: “It is a sigh of the soul rather than a reasoned account of metaphysics; an atmosphere rather than a system of philosophy. But we feel that the atmosphere i...
Rabindranath Tagore’s family’s outlook on religion and life was influenced by the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita (cf. Brahmo Samaj). When Rabindranath was twelve and went to the Himalayas with his father, they chanted the Upanishads together. His father insisted that he should know the verses by heart. Rabindranath Tagore’s writings are full of re...
The most central theme in Tagore’s philosophy is the human being, his or her potential and the question of how this potential can be reached. These are questions that are dealt with by what is called philosophical anthropology. For Tagore, the beginning of the world is a story of creation as well as evolution. He uses scientific models, while ascri...
The human surplus, according to Tagore, results in constant longing for freedom and fulfilment. But how can they find it? What is true freedom? Tagore looks at different kinds of freedom. For him, freedom in the mere physical realm is licence or negative freedom, because complete freedom can never be reached, as there is always “more.” Tagore there...
According to Tagore, we need to free our selves from what shackles the self, not from the self itself. We can do this by focusing on the infinite instead of on the finite, but have to do this through our individuality. To find fulfilment and to liberate ourselves truly it is hence necessary to reach unity, advaitam, with the infinite through our in...
Transcendence of the self can be realised through the search for knowledge, through creative work, and through love. In Religion of Man, Tagore wrote that “the largest wealth of the human soul has been produced through sympathy and cooperation; through disinterested pursuit of knowledge (…); through service.” This is Tagore’s reformulation of the “...
For Tagore, love is the supreme path, because love is emblematic for connectedness and unity. It achieves a harmony between opposites without the need to dissolve opposing forces. Tagore therefore calls love “integrated essence.” Love is thus a unique state of being, because the loving and the loved are connected yet separate; it realizes both unit...
Knowledge has the potential to free from intellectual, economic, and social limitations by bringing humans into truth. While in the Gita, knowledge mostly refers to self-knowledge, Tagore widens the meaning by including other aspects of knowledge that should all consist in discovering the infinite behind finite facts. Therefore, science helps to em...
In Indian thought, karma (action) is usually understood as shackles. Tagore repeats arguments from the Gita that discusses this problem at length: “The Gita says action we must have, for only in action do we manifest our nature. But this manifestation is not perfect so long as our action is not free. In fact, our nature is obscured by work done by ...
Though Tagore’s writings are mostly poetic rather than philosophical treatises, he has a comprehensive, consistent and original worldview that permeates all of his works, ideas and activism. In the centre of it stands the human being and his or her potential, which can be achieved through a unity of the individual with the larger community, with na...
Aug 5, 2019 · Rabindranath Tagore, the Artist. Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) is most popularly known as the poetic genius who penned India’s national anthem and for his masterpiece Gitanjali, which won him a Nobel Prize. But Tagore’s brilliance encompassed much, much more, for he is also one of the finest litterateurs, playwrights and composers the ...
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Nov 16, 2019 · Two greatest minds from East and West in Germany in 1930. Regarding the question of what makes art good or great, Tagore wrote an essay titled On Art and Aesthetics in which he writes that the ...
