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Tagore's Influence In Tagore

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from his inspiration leap Tagore’s” (Rolland, 108.)India has already been a meeting place of races and cultures, before the British came to India. The coming of the British from the West further affected Indian life and polity powerfully much that is vital in Eastern culture today is either a response or a reaction from Western civilization. Rabindranath admits that he was struck by the spirit of social service prevailing in the West. He says. 'It was an inspiration to me.” (Radhakrishnan, 156.)He has only express approval of for the western ideals of law, order, and freedom.
"Europe has been teaching us the higher commitment of public good above those of the family and the group of families, and the sacredness of law, which makes society independent …show more content…

“Tagore himself wrote in Preface to 'Sadhana' that he has been brought up in a family where texts of the Upanishads are used in daily worship."(Tagore, 07)Though Upanishads effect on him, his humanism is mostly his own. Dr. S.B.Dasgupta, one of the famous critics of Tagore mentioned that: “there is similarity between the mental make-up of Tagore and the Upanishad's thinkers. If Tagore would have never read Upanishads then also we would find the similarity between the philosophy of Upanishads and that of Rabindranath Tagore.” (Dasgupta, …show more content…

Development of power, morality, religion, humanism and faith. Paying homage to Buddha he said: "On this auspicious day of Buddha Purnima. On the birth anniversary, I offer my pranam to him whom I think about from the core of my heart as the greatest man.”('Tagore.471-473).Tagore says, “When Buddha said to man, open out your thoughts of love beyond limits, Christ said, 'Love your enemies' their words spiritual the average quality of ideals belonging to the ordinary world."(C.F.

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