English translation. Tagore certainly had strongly held...

English translation. Tagore certainly had strongly held religious beliefs (of an unusually nondenominational kind), but he was interested in a great many other things as well and had many different things to say about them. For Tagore it was of the most elevated significance that individuals have the capacity to live, and reason, in flexibility. His mentality to governmental issues and society, patriotism and internationalism, custom and advancement, can all be seen in the light of this belief. Nothing, maybe, communicates his qualities as obviously as a ballad in Gitanjali: 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; ...†¦show more content†¦And yet there is a deep division between the two men. Tagore was explicit about his disagreement: Tagores profound antipathy for any dedication to the past that couldnt be altered by contemporary reason stretched out even to the affirmed prudence of perpetually keeping past guarantees. On one event when Mahatma Gandhi went to Tagores school at Santiniketan, a junior lady got him to sign her signature book. Gandhi composed: Never make a guarantee in flurry. Having once made it satisfy it at the expense of your life. When he saw this passage, Tagore got disturbed. He composed in the same book a short ballad in Bengali such that nobody could be made a detainee everlastingly with a chain of dirt. He happened to close in English, conceivably so Gandhi could read it excessively, Toss away your guarantee in the event that it is discovered to not be right. Tagore had great reverence for Mahatma Gandhi as an individual and as a political pioneer, however he was likewise greatly wary of Gandhis type of patriotism and his moderate natures in regards to the nations past customs. He never condemned Gandhi by and by. In the 1938 exposition, ‘Gandhi the Man’, he composed: Extraordinary as he is as a government official, as a coordinator, as a pioneer of men, as an ethical reformer, he is more excellent than all these as a man, on the grounds that none of these viewpoints and exercises confines his mankind. They are noticeably propelled and managed