Rabindranath Tagore

I HAVE always been fascinated with the wisdom of India and there's no better person to reflect this than the late poet/philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.

I don't know what drew me to Tagore. I guess it must have been during my teenage years. I happened to come across a picture of this man with a long white beard. His appearance is one of a man who has seen and experienced much.

In his eyes, I saw the wisdom of the ages. In later years, I discovered the wonder and mysteries of his Nobel Prize winning poem, Gitanjali. Upon reading the poem of epic proportions, I discovered to my delight that it lived up to expectations after hearing and reading about the lavish praise heaped on it by Tagore's contemporaries.

Personally, I feel Gitanjali would be better appreciated in its native language, Bengali. If the reader or fan of Tagore is familiar with Bengali. Very often, excellent works are seen digested in its original medium. For example, War and Peace (Russian) by Tolstoy.

There's an excellent book on Tagore entitled Tagore - The Myriad Minded Man. It is one of the better books available on Tagore's life.

Tagore has also written a series of books on love. The depth of his understanding on this much loved universal subject must be read to be appreciated in full.

Rabindranath Tagore is a rare gem on India's crown. Such a person comes every hundred years or so. India is privileged to have Tagore as one of its illustrious sons. His name and fame live on decades after his demise.

Fortunately for all of us who admire his works, his legacy remains intact in the form of books and other writings.

Surfing Eternity

All great yoga and zen masters know what it is like to enter a zone without boundaries. It is a realm where the only passport in is Being.

It is a world that defies description, a place where enlightened souls dwell. It is a state of grace where judgement is absent and love is the foundation and also its atmosphere. You can say it is a place where time forgot, because it genuinely cannot exist.

You don't have to journey out of your earthly abode to find this place. It is in your mind and yet not part of it. It is a state of nothingness and awareness and yet no laws on earth or in heaven govern it.

The point where you are to where it is cannot be measured. It is a journey without a distance.
Its echoes sometimes touches your heart, awakens your soul and emits a signal of love that reverbrates across eternities.

Those who have surfed this state of being have caught glimpses of divinity. They have chosen to remain on earth to guide the others and teach others to be teachers so that more will follow a path that lights the way for countless others.

Every child knows what it is like to catch its ray. But by the time, they grow up, the door closes on them unless their mission on earth has been predestined.

It is a window to God's world. It shines for all eternity where words cannot exist. Once you have entered this world, there's no going back. Your life is forever changed. Your perspective has been altered forever. For it is deemed, you are one of the chosen ones.