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Sadhana: The Realisation of Life

Rabindranath Tagore·1913·English

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Eight lectures Tagore delivered at Harvard in 1912-13, published as a philosophical statement. He argues against the Western separation of the individual from nature and the divine, for a vision of human life as participation in a larger whole: not through doctrine but through love, art, and the education of feeling.

The west seems to take a pride in thinking that it is subduing nature; as if we are living in a hostile world where we have to wrest everything we want from an unwilling and alien arrangement of things. This sentiment is the product of the city-wall habit and training of mind. For in the city life man naturally directs the concentrated light of his mental vision upon his own life and works, and this creates an artificial dissociation between himself and the universal life.

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