Spiritual Secrets- Rabindranath vs Vivekananda You Should Care for
Spiritual Secrets- Rabindranath vs Vivekananda You Should Care for
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In away from the entire mystic quest of man all of mankind spiritual longings can be looked at through the eyes of these two very intriguing sheer dynamic figures Rabindranath Tagore Swami Vivekanand yes they were contemporaries they each had their own approach what their search for higher truth was the bridge which joined them you see when it comes to geniuses uniqueness individuality is the most the important thing the genius does not imitate the genius is their own person and just in that manner this is the first thing to understand
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The Rabindranath Tagore stands apart because he is a genius of incredibly broad spectrum and Vivekanand what do you say of him before the age of 40 captured the imagination of the world and very interestingly Rabindranath who went on to live a very long productive life in contrast to Vivekananda was once asked by somebody who wanted to go deep into Indian mysticism Indian spirituality
so he was asked
how he can do it in a relatively short time how does he grasp the
basics the essence of Indian mysticism and spirituality which date
back 5,000 6,000 years and Rabindranath gave a very mystifying answer
he said study Vivekanand in Vivekanand there is all that is positive
there is nothing that is negative we waken on these in some the idea
of spiritual India, the idea of the Rishi's the idea of the
highest truth that the Upanishads stand for
so these two characters
apparently didn't speak a lot when they met each other interestingly
Vivekanand was very fond of singing Rabindranath Tagore songs when he
was a youth he's to sing it in public occasions he was known for his
voice and some of his most favorite songs are a banana the gores but
somehow in public, they really never acknowledged each other
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so much they didn't get into interlocution they didn't get into a conversation but that's not the point it harkens back to that meeting between Kabir and Farid, they say they never talked you see when two giants come together it's not necessary for them to make mundane conversation what can you talk about you are contemplating the highest truth in your own where your mind your consciousness is soaring
so high in the meditative States and that is their essence
now let us understand Robin Roth actually in a way
encapsulate all the wisdom of Vedanta all the wisdom of the
Upanishads all the wisdom of the Buddha has the teeth on Cara's but
through the medium of beauty and expression, he remains a poet he
remains an artist's Vivekananda, on the other hand, takes the ascetic the approach he takes the religious approach
so they fundamental
approaches to higher reality are different Robin rah takes the approach of beauty expressiveness and beauty viv a Corinth takes the
way of the Rishi's and the Moonies the way of asceticism through the
example of service in life through the example of renunciation he
teaches he is a teacher Robin Renaud makes no qualms about his
position in life as a poet Rabindranath has no aspirations to become
a spiritual guru but in a way he weaves a canon exemplifies the highest kind of teacher but what is common between them is the flow
of bliss what is common if you examine the works of Robin Rath and
Vivek Quran let's look at the lessons we can draw from the life
lessons for a dynamic living for successful living that is the whole the point then we will see that there just two aspects of the same coin
they complement each other they are like day and night alternating
they are like the sunset and the sunrise each has its own beauty what
they are joined by is this insistence that the flow of bliss is your
very nature and this is the essence of the open ishod's remember this
the flow of bliss is what you are that is your true nature when you
establish yourself in that then comes to you the secret of higher
living and then comes to you the secret of transformative living then
comes to you the dimensions beyond the mind you see is very
interesting
how Rabindranath used to express himself much like the
mystics without religion express themselves in that way he is closer
to the bowels than he is to the Rishi's he does not identify himself
with any particular religion in his youth yes he was associated with
the Brahmo Samaj but later in life, he never claimed to draw his
lineage from any particular line of thought any school of or
institution of religion he doesn't claim to have any master life
itself existence itself is his teacher the open sky is his teacher
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so in that way, Robin rods words are more akin to the Abdul Gita he talks the language of the flute the one who's free from the formalities of religion but in a way who signifies the very essence of religion and that he says is the only homecoming we need to come true we don't need to come home to a particular institutionalized religion in fact that is just bricks and mortar that doesn't mean anything the idea is to let the consciousness take flight and when the consciousness takes flight the entire universe becomes one's temple the entire universe becomes capable of reflecting the highest truth the highest beauty and
so on so do not remain in the neuroses of religion come out of
the new races of religion and leave that tremendous anxiety of
wanting to belong to a particular school wanting to belong to a
particular institutionalized encapsulation of truth that is not at
all needed just sitting
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