Rabindranath Tagore (Songs of Awakening)

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Book Specification

Item Code:	NAL186
Author:	Mohit Chakrabarti
Publisher:	Kanishika Publishers
Language:	Transliteration With English Translation
Edition:	2007
ISBN:	9788173919244
Pages:	140
Cover:	Hardcover
Other Details	8.5 inch x 5.5 inch
Weight	300 gm

Book Description

About the Book

The songs of Rabindranath Tagore are the eternal treasures of our quest for the true identity of man in terms of music. His songs of awakening are a prelude to the why and how of this quest in a very crystallised and transparent pattern presented in poignant and telling words of the mind and the heart. Our moments of joy, sorrow, love, languishment, hope, disappointment, loneliness and wonder are woven in unparalleled words in these songs of awakening. As one reads and attunes with the very words of these songs, one is blessed with a new dawn of awareness for marching ahead in search of excellence and ascent.

A permanent companion to anyone who wants to be in perfect tuning with Tagore for awakening anew and afresh any time anywhere.

About the Author

Mohit Chakrabarti, D. Litt.: Teaches Education and English at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. Honoured with National Award as Teacher Educator.

Credited with participation/ presentation/ acceptance of papers in international/ national conferences/ symposia/ seminars etc. like The World Assembly of Teacher Educators, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; Beijing Normal University, Beijing; Institution of Education, Singapore; First International Conference on “Literature in Translation”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; First International Symposium on “India and World Literature”, University of Delhi, Delhi; Workshop on “Setting the Agenda for Change for Central Universities for the 21st Century, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

Associated with different Universities, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and Educational institutions, Professor Chakrabarti has recently acted as member, Teacher Education for Curriculum Renewal, National Focus Group on Teacher Education, NCERT, New Delhi.

Consistent and prolific contributor to studies and researches on Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda. Writer of books for children in Bengali and English.

Preface

The songs of Rabindranath Tagore bring forth a vision of life in fullness. His catholicity of vision in delving deep into the finer feelings and softer emotions of life in aesthetic and mystic grandeur is incomparable and unparalleled. This is perhaps all the more justified when his songs of awakening ring in the innermost core of the mind and the heart.

What makes Tagore’s songs of awakening so significant? What are the very essential points of departure in which these songs are enriched? Why should one consider these songs of awakening as milestones of one’s ascent and excellence as the best creation of the All Beautiful? One might go on supplementing numerous other questions prompting, of course, apposite answers. What is really very amazing is that his songs of awakening simply prepare us to be more vibrant and spontaneous in making newer and more challenging adventure within ourselves where the diverse components of the human feelings and emotions –freedom, joy, love, sorrow, loneliness, separation, pains, trials, doubts, disturbances, devotion and dedication—all await a symphony in all brilliance and perfection in consciousness par excellence.

When love is considered to be a serene component of awakening, it turns out as a perennial force not only for the time present but remarkably for the time past with all its glorious moments also, and for the time future that beckons with promises and perfume of perfection. In fact, Tagore’s songs of awakening with fullness of the vision of love are the benchmarks of the quest for the beyonding of man. Moreover, love embodied and personalised in and through Nature unfolds a newer horizon of the soul of love which is the All Soul, Infinite, All Illumined One. What a quest for love in the muse in awakening?

Hope in Tagore’s songs of awakening also plays a very characteristic role. He adores and embraces it in terms of pain, desolation and disappointment so much so that in the final analysis we come across a newer avenue of awakening with absolute glory and serenity. Tagore also introduces the songs of awakening not simply as an exercise in optimism but more than that. These reveal how one can undergo an inward endeavour at viewing life as a variegated casket to finer and softer sensibilities that moderate and crystallise whatever stands for excellence and ascent to man. The oyster in every mind looks more illumined with the exquisite exploration of feeling and emotions sensitised in one’s own approach to soul consciousness.

Humility is the essence of Tagore’s songs of awakening. Therefore, a positive and vibrant attitude to all constraints is the hallmark of the true identity of humans continually striving for oneness with the All Serene. Distress and disgrace, darkness and desolation, wounds and agonies-all are warmly welcome as boosters to awakening and reawakening in contemplation and action, and, with these ends-in-view, his songs make a calm and serene call complimenting everyone with askance and counter askance for finding out the true inward world of freedom and joy, serenity and extinction of personality.

In selecting the songs, care has been taken to be justified to Tagore as far as possible in highlighting the most natural and significant components that adorn as marvels of awakening. At the same time, these songs are so poignant in unfolding the true image of man in pursuit of fullness that even a cursory effort to be attuned through the invaluable words would always pay startling dividends.

I earnestly carry forward within myself the endless warmth of love and affection from my eldest sister, Shrimati Madhabilata Brahmachari. I humbly dedicate this book to her as a token of reverence and gratitude.

Sobdo, my son, has satisfactorily processed the computer work for the book. Hearty congrats!

If the book appeals to all lovers of Tagore, I would recall his own words as a tyro in appositely attuning myself: “Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Contents

	Preface	vii
1	Your White New Conchshell Blows All Through the Sky	1
2	In the Eastern Part of the Sky	2
3	Awake, My Mind, in the World of Goodness	3
4	When Have You Come at Dawn and Touched with a Smile	4
5	Even Now Your Numbness Does Not Slip Away, Eyes Do Not Open Up	5
6	Who Awakes Today in the Fearlessly Asleep World?	7
7	The Night Dawned, the Path Ended	8
8	O the Dream at Night Removed, O Just Removed, the Strings Cut Off	9
9	My Void of Many Days Would Have to be Filled In	10
10	O the Ever New, Today in This First Song	11
11	The Life of Life is Awaking in Your Very Life	13
12	Awake in Eyes Distinct on the Other Shore of Night	14
13	If Thou Dost Shatter the Dream at the Dawn of Night	16
14	Play On, O Poet, Your Pleasant Music	17
15	O Enchanter of Mind, at the End of Dense Night	18
16	Traveller, Why With Idle Limbs Even Now!	19
17	Who Called O Lord, on the Night of Sorrow!	20
18	Call on Me Tonight at Dead Hours	21
19	Awake in Joy, O Awake with Him	22
20	O Awake in Pure Joy	23
21	All Make Merriments	24
22	Awake Me with the Touch of Thy Drink Thyself	25
23	Friend of My Heart, Give New Life in Today's Auspicious Morning	26
24	Listen to His Pleasing Message on the Auspicious Moment in a Calm Heart	27
25	Day and Night Look at His Countenance	28
26	Awake O Awake -the Morning Passes in Vain!	29
27	Who Has Sat Today on the Seat of the Heart, Lord, the God of the Earth!	30
28	Spreading a Seat on the Two Hearts, Be Seated, O Lord	31
29	The Calm Evening Came, the Tired Sun Went Down the Setting Horizon	32
30	From Fear to Thy Fearlessness, O Deliver Me to Birth Anew!	33
31	In Thy Name Do I Today Open My Eyes in the Auspicious Morning	34
32	Lord, Saluting You, Shall I Go On with Worldly Work	35
33	In Deep Sorrow Did I Awake, the Night Dense and Gloomy	36
34	Why Sleep is Not There in Your Eyes Alone	37
35	When Tears Trickled Down with the Rains of Sorrow	38
36	The Bee Came Inside the Room Humming	39
37	Day and Night Sans Happiness in Yoke, You are Wandering With a Poor Life	41
38	Who Knew That You Would Call on Me! I was Immersed in Slumber	42
39	Arise and Let Us Go, the Good Day Arrived, the Fragrance of Joy Overflowed	44
40	Lord, If You Awaken Me Today	45
41	More Strike I Would Bear, I, Too, Would Bear	46
42	Give in the Heart Thy Pure Juice of the Touch, Thy Cool Calm Virtuous Hands	47
43	O Wherefrom Rings the Pain of Love!	48
44	The Dark Night Dawned, in Joy Was the World Filled	49
45	In the Sea of Nactar Do I Immerse, the World Do I Forget	51
46	Let Me Receive Thy Kindness in My Heart	52
47	Awake, O Rude, Awake!	54
48	This Course of Test Came to An End	55
49	Awake, Awake O Awake Songs, Make the Sky of the Mind Wavy	56
50	Eyes Floated in Water	57
51	Victory, O Poet, to Thy Diverse Joy!	58
52	Where the God of the Silent Heart Awakes Alone	59
53	The Lord Awakes in the Moonlit Night	60
54	When the World is Rapt in Slumber and the Sky is Dark	61
55	That She Came and Sat Beside Me, Yet I did Not Awake	62
56	When I Came out Singing Your Song	63
57	In Thunder Your Flute Plays on. Is That a Simple Song?	65
58	My Massage Touches My Heart	66
59	O We Would Have to Awake!	67
60	Amidst the Awakening Noise of the Universe	68
61	To Break the Doors in the Retreat of the Demons of Dry Heat	69
62	What Massage of the Very Spring Did the Yonder Full Moon Bring Forth!	70
63	In Drizzles Drops the Fountain of Colours	71
64	With Whose Letter Did the Full Moon Come!	72
65	O My Moonlight, Today in the Evening of the Early Spring	73
66	The House of Play Have I Started Building Amidst the Mind	74
67	The Heart of Midnight	75
68	Moon, Who Will Give You the Swing!	76
69	Slowly, Slowly, Blow Slowly, O Restless Wind!	77
70	How Would He Remain Secret by Hiding the Seized Heart!	78
71	That Thou Hast Come to My Residence, the Sound is Surging all Thro' the World	79
72	In the Full Moon Tonight Everyone Has Gone to the Forest	80
73	This Flower of the First Moment of My Morning	81
74	Become One in Unison, Place the Head at the Feet of One	82
75	Adorning the Sail With Your Open Wind by Cutting Off the Rope	83
76	O My Mind, When You Awoke Not	84
77	In the Heart You were Awake	85
78	Wherefrom I As If Listen	86
79	With What Affection the Spring Goes on Writing Its Song on the Dust!	87
80	The Last Star of Night, in Secret Half-Slumber	88
81	My Lamp is Put Out in the Wind at Midnight	89
82	Would Your Work Be Finished By Stringing Wires	90
83	Let Victory, Victory Be to New Sunrise	91
84	With the Very Beginning of the Early Spring, All Dry Leaves that Dropped Down	92
85	Come O Come, the Water for Quenching Thirst	94
86	From His Eternal World of Goodness	96
87	Plays On, O Plays On, the Drum Plays On Amid the Heart, Amid the Heart	98
88	I Know Not When With the Touch of Rains	99
89	Giving, Taking and Returning Between You and ME	100
90	My Heart, Perhaps Yonder Your Early Summer Storm Arrives	101
91	Yonder in the Blue Horizon the Fire of Flowers Caught	102
92	Today the Inner Words of the Sky in Drizzles Ring	103
93	What a Poignant Massage Came Along the Shade of Dense Cloud	105
94	Slowly is Plunging the Dense Night in My Life	106
95	Sing Shall I with Thy Tune, Give Me that Veena	107
96	Sorrow There is, Death is There, the Pangs of Separation Ache	109
97	Take, Take the Silent Veena Up	110
98	The Wind Touches the Sail of Songs	112
99	The Permanent Words That You Have Strung in the Global Tune	113
100	Look At Me Not, Knowing Me Old	114

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