My Songs Taught Me Lessons and Showed Me Secret Paths...

Ever in my life have I sought thee
with my songs. It was they who led
me from door to door, and with them
have I felt about me, searching and
touching my world.

It was my songs that taught me all
the lessons I ever learnt; they showed
me secret paths, they brought before
my sight many a star on the horizon of
my heart.

They guided me all the day long to
the mysteries of the country of
pleasure and pain, and, at last, to
what palace gate have they brought
me in the evening at the end of my
journey ?


Gitanjali-101
Rabindranath Tagore

On The Seashore of Endless Worlds....

For the one who recently sailed into my life and restored a great many things in me - the love for Tagore's poems being one of them ...

gitanjali.mp3


On the seashore of endless worlds
children meet. The infinite sky is
motionless overhead and the restless
water is boisterous. On the seashore
of endless worlds the children meet
with shouts and dances.

They build their houses with sand
and they play with empty shells. With
withered leaves they weave their
boats and smilingly float them on the
vast deep. Children have their play on
the seashore of worlds.

They know not how to swim, they
know not how to cast nets. Pearl
Fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail
in their ships, while children gather
pebbles and scatter them again. They
seek not for hidden treasures, they
know not how to cast nets.

The sea surges up with laughter
and pale gleams the smile of the sea
beach. Death-dealing waves sing
meaningless ballads to the children,
even like a mother while rocking her
baby's cradle. The sea plays with
children, and pale gleams the smile of
the sea beach.

On the seashore of endless worlds
children meet. Tempest roams in the
pathless sky, ships get wrecked in
the trackless water, death is abroad
and children play. On the seashore of
endless worlds is the great meeting of
children.

(Gitanjali 60 - Tagore)