Author: S K Chakraborty
Publisher: New Age International
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 374
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812240524x
Description
The translated essays in this volume reveal Tagore the Wisdom-teacher, an authentic voice of the East. In many ways he appears to be at his transparent best in these discourses given at dawn in the groves of Shantiniketan.
Tagore may be said to be a complete model of Indian culture, founded as his life was on an unbroken synthesis and expression of tapas and ananda - ascesis and aesthetics, character and bliss. Tapas and ananda comprise the foundation of Indian civilization, laid and built up by the rishis of the tapovans.
A many-splendoured genius that he was, it is often difficult to extricate Tagore's true mind from the words of the numerous characters in his novels, short stories and plays. There are altogether one hundred fifty three such talks in two volumes in Bengali published under the title Shantiniketan by Vishva Bharati.
This translation includes about eighty per cent from volume one and twenty percent from volume two. Selection has been governed primarily by the criteria of conceptual relevance and practical utility of selected pieces.
THE TRANSLATORS:
S K CHAKRABORTY, Ph. D combiners three decades of post graduate teaching experience in India and abroad. He has a so far published eight books on Human values and Indian Ethos.
PRADIP BHATTACHARYA , gold and silver medalist of Calcutta University is author of 14 published books and articles on literary criticism, transactional analysis, ancient Indian history, and comparative mythology. He has translated into English Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Krishna Charitra and Pratibha Ray's Yajnaseni.
Contents
VOLUME I
SECTION I
Arise! Awake!
Doubt
Want
Soul Vision
Sin
Grief
Renunciation
Love
Resolution of Conflict
What do we want ?
Prayer
SECTION 2
Risk of Perversion
Seeking
Hearing
Accounts
Man
The Thirst to Amass
Ferry Across
This Shore-That Shore
SECTION 3
Day
Night
At Dawn
The Unique
The Right of Love
Will
Beauty
The Truth of Prayer
Law
Three
Setting Apart
Nature
SECTION 4
Acquiring
Totality
Work
Energy
Life-Force
Freedom in the World
Freedom in Society
View-Point
Indistinguishable
Two
Pervading the Cosmos
SECTION 5
Emotionalism and Purity
Inner and Outer
Place of Pilgrimage
Division
The Witness
The Eternal Abode
Marriage
SECTION 6
The Third Floor
Desire, Will, Welfare
Spontaneous Work
Philosopher's Stone
Practice
Detachment
Faith
In-gathering
Dedication
The Task of Dedication
Apathy
Death
Results
SECTION 7
Seeing the Truth
Creation
Death and Immortality
Imbibing the Law of Being
The Ego
The River and the Banks
Soul's Manifestation
The Commandment
ascesos
Wholeness
The Lesson of the Nest
The Infinite
SECTION 8
Om
Gaining the Law of One's Being
Undivided Realization
Self-surrender
All is One
Self-Confidence
The Composed Soul
Rigid and Relaxed
Salutations
Mantra's Bonds
Life and Love
Fear and Bliss
Law and Liberation
The General Will
Year Ending
Desire for the Infinite
Getting and Not Getting
Brvominh
Liberation
The Way to Liberation
SECTION 9
Tapovana, The Forest of Ascesis
VOLUME II
SECTION 10
The Universal Feeling
SECTION 11
The Hard to Attain
SECTION 12
The End
SECTION 13
Karma Yoga
Understanding the Self
SECTION 14
Understanding Truth
Becoming True
Seeing the Truth
SECTION 15
Children of Immortality
SECTION 16
Do not destroy me
The Act of Creation