08/05/2024:GEETHANJALI AUTHOR’S BIRTH DAY

TAGORE’S BIRTH DAY

 I have published my translation of TAGORE’S GITANJALI under the title “எனது பார்வையில் இரவீந்திரரின் கீதாஞ்சலி – மூலம் -தமிழாக்கம் -விளக்கம்” -COST Rs. 190/-UNIQUE MEDIA INTEGRATERS, CHENNAI- PUBLISHERS.

The theme of Tagore’s Prayer is primarily about seeking strength, courage, and humility in service to a higher power or purpose. It emphasizes the following key aspects:

1. Courage and Strength: The prayer asks for the courage to speak, act, and endure according to the divine will. It seeks strength to bear both joys and sorrows lightly, indicating a desire for emotional resilience.
2. Service and Sacrifice: The prayer expresses a wish to make one’s love fruitful in service, suggesting a commitment to altruism and helping others. It also speaks of a ‘difficult mood which sacrifices daily,’ indicating a willingness to make personal sacrifices for the greater good.
3. Humility and Resistance: The prayer seeks the strength to never disown the poor or submit to oppressive power, reflecting values of humility, justice, and resistance against injustice.
4. Transcendence: Finally, the prayer asks for the strength to raise one’s mind above daily trifles, indicating a desire for spiritual growth and transcendence.

Tagore’s Prayer is a prayer written by Rabindranath Tagore. There are different versions of the prayer, but they all share the same theme of asking for strength and courage to serve God with love. Here are two versions of the prayer:

• “Give me the supreme courage of love, this is my prayer—the courage to speak, to do, to suffer at Your will, to l leave all things or be left alone. Strengthen me on errands of danger; honor me with pain; and help me climb to that difficult mood which sacrifices daily to You.”¹
• “Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.”

SHANTHINIKETHAN Great