Tagore, a spiritual genius, a sage, creator of the art of literary composition, composer of musical architecture, a great painter of all time, perhaps was deeply in touch with omnipotence – worldly sorrows took him closer to divinity beyond the materialistic world.
The life owing in his river of creative concept was apparently seemed to be contradictory sometimes somewhere but was always holding a harmonic rhythm in expressing its various colours, values and perception. A glimpse of the last two stanzas of his poetry ‘PROBAHINI’ upholds such philosophy of Tagore’s thought process before the Readers.
A stream of darkness fills my heart
A stream of light blooms my eyes;
My dance belongs to the mortal earth,
My songs to heaven rise
To my right is happiness
Pain to my left attends.
In the tranquil sea of music
Melody’s journey ends.
In that river of Tagore life had been fowing through darkness and light, earth and heaven, sorrow and joy, sound and silence – all were glimpsed in the progress of the river through hills and valleys, towns and villages, deserts and forests.