on the occasion of the Independence Day
when I read this, I cried.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
----- Rabindranath Tagore
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
----- Rabindranath Tagore
posted by yesbob at August 13, 2004
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you're not the first. my mom did too.. 'twuz her school pledge or somethin when she wuz studyin in pune. she bought me gitanjali when she thought i wuz old enuf to understand [which wuz in 3rd yr!!] - n i loved it too. coincidence. another friend o mine posted abt tagore on his blog too. check out this post n his blog in genl. u'l love it. n hez a wunderkind. will mail u abt him.
When I sang this song, everyone cried! No, its not the patriotism that brought them...
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