Part two — Rabindranath: the myriad-minded

RTM 5-97. The author first published this essay in India on January 31st, 1961, for Rabindranath Tagore's forthcoming 100th birth anniversary. It was first published on January 31st, 1961, by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India. Reprinted in: //Sri Chinmoy, Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders_//, Blauvelt, New York: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1973, pp. 135-203.

Adorer of nature

The life of almost every great poet is blessed with some special gifts. Rabindranath was an adorer of Nature. In the West, Wordsworth and Shelley also studied in the same school of Nature. These three mighty poets wanted to establish a relation with Nature beautifully, sincerely, and finally inseparably. But the aspect of Nature that Tagore loved most was her beauty.