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Sadhana: The Realisation of Life

Rabindranath Tagore

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1. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 36. Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind
2. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 37. One day I was out in a boat on the Ganges. It was a beautiful evening in autumn. The
3. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 37. rt from our God, setting up disunion and the arrogance of exclusiveness. For sin is n
4. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 39. As with man, so with this universe. When we look at the world through the veil of our
5. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 40. Through our progress in science the wholeness of the world and our oneness with it is
6. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 43. In love, loss and gain are harmonised. In its balance-sheet, credit and debit account
7. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 47. The Vaishnava religion has boldly declared that God has bound himself to man, and in
8. "REALISATION IN LOVE", para. 47. very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show th
9. "VI", para. 1. VI
10. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 1. REALISATION IN ACTION It is only those who have known that joy expresses itself throu
11. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 5. The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring t
12. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 8. The Upanishad says: In the midst of activity alone wilt thou desire to live a hundred
13. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 10. It is not the truth that man is active on compulsion. If there is compulsion on one s
14. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 11. This mahatī vinashtih—this great destruction he cannot bear, and accordingly he toils
15. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 13. The same with the soul. It cannot live on its own internal feelings and imaginings. I
16. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 16. They fail to realise that while the infinite is always greater than any assignable li
17. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 18. In our country the danger comes from the opposite side. Our partiality is for the int
18. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 20. As for ourselves, it is only when we wholly submit to the bonds of truth that we full
19. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 22. Who is there that, sitting in his corner, would deride this grand self-expression of
20. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 23. O thou distraught wanderer, thou Sannyasin, drunk in the wine of self-intoxication, d
21. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 23. to meet him? How far can he fly—can he fly and fly, till he flies into nothingness it
22. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 25. Brahma himself gives expression to his joy in just the same way. By his many-sided ac
23. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 26. In this very thing does our own true meaning lie, in this is our likeness to our fath
24. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 27. The Upanishad says: Knowledge, power, and action are of his nature. [Footnote: Svābhā
25. "REALISATION IN ACTION", para. 29. O worker of the universe! We would pray to thee to let the irresistible current of th
26. "VII", para. 1. VII
27. "THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY", para. 1. THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon
28. "THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY", para. 6. In the early days of his history man took everything as a phenomenon of life. His sci
29. "THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY", para. 9. In the history of æsthetics there also comes an age of emancipation when the recognit
30. "THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY", para. 11. Through our sense of truth we realise law in creation, and through our sense of beaut
31. "THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY", para. 12. Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty,
32. "THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY", para. 16. But the singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They
33. "THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY", para. 22. Last night, in the silence which pervaded the darkness, I stood alone and heard the v
34. "VIII", para. 1. VIII
35. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 1. THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE The Upanishads say: "Man becomes true if in this life
36. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 6. When you know that whatever there is is filled by him and whatever you have is his gi
37. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 10. The Upanishads say: Be lost altogether in Brahma like an arrow that has completely pe
38. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 12. This makes it clear that it is really the infinite whom we seek in our pleasures. Our
39. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 15. That we cannot absolutely possess the infinite being is not a mere intellectual propo
40. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 18. Man is not complete; he is yet to be. In what he is he is small, and if we could conc
41. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 22. Though the West has accepted as its teacher him who boldly proclaimed his oneness wit
42. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 26. Brahma is Brahma, he is the infinite ideal of perfection. But we are not what we trul
43. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 30. In the same manner, our soul can only become Brahma as the river can become the sea.
44. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 32. I remember in our childhood we had a teacher who used to make us learn by heart the w
45. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 37. Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us
46. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 42. Yes, we must know that within us we have that where space and time cease to rule and
47. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 43. The union is already accomplished. The paramātman, the supreme soul, has himself chos
48. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 43. the wager from her lover. But so long as she remains obstinately in the dark, lifts n
49. "THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE", para. 50. This "I" of mine toils hard, day and night, for a home which it knows as its own. Ala