Summary
Rabindranath Tagore: The Heart of God
This inspiring collection of Tagore's poetry presents his "simple prayers for common life". Each of the seventy-seven prayers is an eloquent affirmation of the Divine in the face of joy and sorrow. Like David's psalms, they transcend time and speak directly to the human heart.
The spirit of this collection is best symbolized by one sentence of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the famous philosopher and statesman and president of India: "Rabindranath Tagore was one of the few representatives of the universal man to whom the future of the world belongs."
Tagore's prayer poems strongly confirm his spiritual strength, in contrast to the personal life tragedies that followed him. Rabindranath himself in his later years experienced a state of severe depression and hopelessness that, according to his own admission, he was on the verge of suicide.
However, like the mythical Phoenix bird rising from the ashes, Rabindranath miraculously rose again on the stage of this world, manifesting all the strength of his personality.
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