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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
:)-just revolves round the centre table,tea and books.
this morning is accompanied by a piece of chewy brownie
"I want to give you something, my child, for we are drifting in the
stream of the world.
Our lives will be carried apart, and our love forgotten.
But I am not so foolish as to hope that I could buy your heart
with my gifts.
Young is your life, your path long, and you drink the love we
bring you at one draught and turn and run away from us.
You have your play and your playmates. What harm is there if
you have no time or thought for us!
We, indeed, have leisure enough in old age to count the days
that are past, to cherish in our hearts what our hands have lost
for ever.
The river runs swift with a song, breaking through all
barriers. But the mountain stays and remembers, and follows her
with his love."
~ Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 ~
In the heat of India, it is all to easy to feel distanced from Christmas ... and yet it approaches all too fast. I have made two attempts at drawing my card and neither pleases me. A sense of panic is setting in.....
Going rather better is the production of my calendar - one version of which is ready to be printed. As to the buying of gifts .... that is not progressing at all right now.
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Madhya Kalikata Sanskritik Prangan - Rabindra Jayanti 2008 - 25e Boishakh, 1415 - Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday, Bowbazar, Kolkata, India.
"As long as it lasts
Value it with your whole life.
When the chariot of farewell sweeps past,
Forgetting self, make free the path,
Singing paeans of victory.
In the little earth you possess
Grieve not for what lies beyond -
It exists in the heart of the universe,
If not in one form, then in another."
~ Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 ~
" If you would have it so, I will end my singing.
If it sets your heart aflutter, I will take away my eyes from
your face.
If it suddenly startles you in your walk, I will step aside and
take another path.
If it confuses you in your flower-weaving, I will shun your
lonely garden.
If it makes the water wanton and wild, I will not row my boat by
your bank."
Rabindranath Tagore
Photo Marta Jejina © All rights reserved
The Rabindranath Tagore statue at the Asian Centre of the University of British Columbia. (Metro Vancouver/University Endowment Lands, BC, Canada)
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water by Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - 1941 in Dudley.
Near Dudley College - Evolve on The Broadway.
Stone sculpture.
Next to Dudley Evolve Theatre.
It was installed between 2018 and 2019.
"I must launch out my boat.
The languid hours pass by on the
shore---Alas for me!
The spring has done its flowering and taken leave.
And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger.
The waves have become clamorous, and upon the bank in the shady lane
the yellow leaves flutter and fall.
What emptiness do you gaze upon!
Do you not feel a thrill passing through the air
with the notes of the far-away song
floating from the other shore?"
~ Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941~
One of the small images I took on our day out when I inadvertently changed the image size on my camera .... so frustrating! The island in the middle of this lake is one of my favourite places - it has a ruined Augustine priory dating from the 13th Century on it.
As big as it gets!
A really tranquil area of already peaceful Shantiniketan. The founder of Shantiniketan, Maharshi Debendranath, used to meditate under the chhatim tree. Now a place of tourist interest, the site still holds its silent grace.
Performing with the Rigchhandam troupe from Calcutta - disciples of Smt. Subhra Mandal. Presenting "Khudito Pashan", a dance drama based on a short story by Tagore, using elements of drama, Rabindra Sangeet and Indian classical dance.
L to R: Ahana Das, Sujoyini Mandal, Nayantara Parpia, Shromona Jana, Ruchita Bose
"The fair was on before the temple.
It had rained from the early morning
and the day came to its end.
Brighter than all the gladness of
the crowd was the bright smile of
a girl who bought for a farthing a
whistle of palm leaf.
The shrill joy of that whistle floated
above all laughter and noise.
An endless throng of people came
and jostled together. The road was
muddy, the river in flood, the field
under water in ceaseless rain.
Greater than all the troubles of
the crowd was a little boy's trouble--
he had not a farthing to buy a painted
stick.
His wistful eyes gazing at the shop
made this whole meeting of men so
pitiful."
~ Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 ~
From "The Gardener LXXVI"
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
--Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet and polymath --
In the Rajghat (Mahatma Gandhi memorial) compound, New Delhi, India
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Rabindrath Tagor
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
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Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
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Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Call Number: LC-B2- 3911-9
"How hard it is to meet my Lord.
The Rainbird wails in thirst for the rain.
Almost she dies of her longing
yet she would have none other water than the rain.
Drawn by the love of music
the deer moves forward.
She dies as she listens to the music
yet she shrinks not in fear.
The widowed wife sits by the body
of her dead husband.
She is not afraid of the fire.
Put away all fear.
Put away all fear.
Put away all fear
for this poor body."
-Kabir (14th Century)
Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
After Narayan left this world, these words offered me comfort again and again. Over the years, their meaning has transformed my longing of love into something greater than Narayan and I knew then but experience whole heartedly now. There are times when I think that ancient sage wrote this song just for me. His tender understanding still touches me and lifts my heart seven hundred years later.
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Taken from my backyard in Kent, WA
Performing with the Rigchhandam troupe from Calcutta - disciples of Smt. Subhra Mandal. Presenting "Khudito Pashan", a dance drama based on a short story by Tagore, using elements of drama, Rabindra Sangeet and Indian classical dance.
L to R: Sujoyini Mandal, Nayantara Parpia, Ruchita Bose, Shromona Jana
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
| by Rabindranath Tagore
| photo: sunset at Town of 1770, Queensland, Australia