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Summary: Gitanjali
Review: This is a book with 100 peoms and they all are so soothing and heartpleasing that you feel that you are sitting under a shady tree by a river and enjoying the beauty of nature. It calms your mind and shows who it was in late 1800s and early 1900s. Really wonderful.
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Summary: Gitanjali by R. Tagore
Review: This is one of the really great spiritual books ever written. Tagore's simple traslations of his own poems (originally in Bengali) are superb and deep, even though entirely uncomplicated. As Wm. Butler Yeats said it, he, Yeats, carried the book around with him, but often had to close it lest some stranger should see how much it moved him.
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Summary: Boundless Love & Devotion
Review: With Tagore, very little can go wrong if you're looking for some poetry to heal your heart and soul. Tagore's poetry appeals to the highest spiritual plains yet at the same time appeals to the human heart to the highest order. To achieve something like this will require a person of high spiritual attainment. Gitanjali, or 'Song Offerings', is a collection of prose written with the Creator in mind, reflecting Tagore's wish to be united with the Creator. In his poetry one cannot miss his show of devotion and his pure love for the Creator, using variuos metaphorical subjects like flowers, rivers etc. One cannot but admire the beauty and art in it. To give you a feel of his poetry, the Gitanjali starts with this : "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life..." W.B. Yeats, who contributed greatly to the exposure of Tagore to the Western world and subsequently to Tagore's award for the Nobel prize in Literature, has this to say, "...these prose translation from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years...". Highly recommended.
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Summary: Pensive, soulful, comfortable, and haunting
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___________________ I've loved Tagore since I first discovered him in `The One and The Many.' Gitanjali is a wonderful echo of peacefulness when everything else may seem awry. At once a prayer of thankfulness, a cry for help, a song of praise, and a quiet rumination, Tagore has captured the essence of what it is to be spiritually awake. I've set out several times to memorize portions just to be sure I have them on hand. A gem that teaches us to float in a world that knows only how to run. +: lyric, relaxing, awakening, powerful, motivating, and strangely freeing.
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Summary: Pensive, soulful, comfortable, and haunting
Review: ___________________
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___________________ I've loved Tagore since I first discovered him in 'The One and The Many.' Gitanjali is a wonderful echo of peacefulness when everything else may seem awry. At once a prayer of thankfulness, a cry for help, a song of praise, and a quiet rumination, Tagore has captured the essence of what it is to be spiritually awake. I've set out several times to memorize portions just to be sure I have them on hand. A gem that teaches us to float in a world that knows only how to run. +: lyric, relaxing, awakening, powerful, motivating, and strangely freeing.
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