Heart of God
Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore
1st Edition
Published on 10. December 2011
112 pages
978-1-4629-0354-2 (ISBN)
Description
Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861— 1941) is considered the most important poet of modern-day India. He was also a distinguished author, educator, social reformer, and philosopher. Today, Tagore along with Mahatma Gandhi is prized as a foremost intellectual and spiritual advocate of India's liberation from imperial rule.
This inspiring collection of Tagore's poetry represents his "simple prayers of common life." Each of the seventy-seven prayers is an eloquent affirmation of the divine in the face of both joy and sorrow. Like the Psalms of David, they transcend time and speak directly to the human heart.
The spirit of this collection may be best symbolized by a single sentence by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the renowned philosopher and statesman who served as president of India: "Rabindranath Tagore was one of the few representatives of the universal person to whom the future of the world belongs."
This inspiring collection of Tagore's poetry represents his "simple prayers of common life." Each of the seventy-seven prayers is an eloquent affirmation of the divine in the face of both joy and sorrow. Like the Psalms of David, they transcend time and speak directly to the human heart.
The spirit of this collection may be best symbolized by a single sentence by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the renowned philosopher and statesman who served as president of India: "Rabindranath Tagore was one of the few representatives of the universal person to whom the future of the world belongs."
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Reverend Herbert F. Vetter, D.D. is the retired Minister at Large of The First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chaplain to Harvard University, and the founding director of the national radio and television broadcasts of the Cambridge Forum.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword by Albert Schweitzer
- Introduction by Herbert F. Vetter
- Prayers
- Accept Me
- A Question to God
- Are You Abroad?
- Why?
- Trees
- My Greetings
- Face to Face?
- Death
- Hold My Hand
- Deliverance
- This Is My Prayer
- The Poorest
- Time to Sit Quietly
- The Rebel
- The Least Grain of Corn
- My Friend
- My Polar Star
- Wisdom
- Your Presence
- Treasures
- Not Altogether Lost
- My Voyage
- Your Name
- You Are There
- Beyond Despair
- My Song
- Salutation
- The Solitary Wayfarer
- Sleep
- Mother Earth
- Abounding Joy
- Worker of the Universe
- My Last Song
- The Grasp of Your Hand
- Let My Song Be Simple
- My All
- My Country
- My Last Word
- Your Love
- Life of My Life
- Light
- The Fullness of Peace
- Obstinate Are the Shackles
- Lost Time
- The Infinity of Your Love
- I Want You, Only You
- Rain
- Darkness and Light
- The Stream of Life
- Strike at the Root
- Thanksgiving
- Take, O Take
- Time
- Tears of the Earth
- What Divine Drink
- The Music of Love
- No Night of Ease
- O World
- Playtime
- When the Heart Is Hard
- Singing
- When You Save Me
- Let My Country Awake
- Nothing But Your Love
- The Sky and the Nest
- Now in the Evening
- Gifts
- You Have Made Me Endless
- Friends Whom I Knew Not
- You Hide Yourself
- Freed at Last!
- Eternal Traveler
- Worship
- The Perfect Union
- Your Light, My Light
- Your Sunbeams
- Yours
