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In addition to being an artistic polymath, Tagore was also a historian of India, a spiritualist who wrote and delivered lectures on the nature of God and a linguist who wrote on Bengali grammar. Tagore's main philosophical work, Sadhana: Realisation of the Self, sought to reconnect man with nature.
Waqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
5 Best Short Stories (Rupa Quick Reads)
Stray Birds
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Edwin Arnold's THE SONG CELESTIAL
Paramahansa Yogananda • Autobiography of a Yogi
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Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
Less known are Rabindranath Tagore’s efforts to invoke what we today call sustainability – but which was called pantheistic philosophy in the 1920s – as a transcendent ideal for the world.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
poems. I read aloud to Amy a few lines written by the poet Kabir: We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants— perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother’s womb …
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
