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The Vedantic Relationality of Rabindranath Tagore - Harmonizing the One and Its Many (Hardcover)
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The Vedantic Relationality of Rabindranath Tagore - Harmonizing the One and Its Many (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
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This book is a thematic study of the poet-thinker Rabindranath
Tagore's conceptual project of harmonizing the one and its many.
Tagore's writings, in Bengali and in English, on religious and
social themes are held together by the leitmotif of a "harmony"
which operates across several existential, religious, and social
polarities - the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the
eternal, and the individual and the universal. Tagore creatively
appropriated materials from diverse sources such as the classical
Hindu Vedantic systems, the folk piety of Bengal, and others, to
configure a dialectic which shapes his writings on both religious
and social themes. On the one hand, each individual is irreducibly
distinct from everyone else, and, on the other hand, each
individual gains their spiritual depth precisely by being placed
within the dynamic matrices of an interrelated whole. Thus, we find
Tagore rejecting certain monastic forms of Hindu world-renunciation
and also certain ecstatic dimensions of devotional worship - the
former because they efface individuality and the latter because
they can generate self-absorbed styles of living. Again, Tagore is
as sharply opposed to Bengali imitativeness of English modes of
being in the world as he is to Bengali forms of insularity - the
former because it dilutes the concrete richness of indigenous
lifeforms and the latter because it confines individuals to
parochial enclosures. Tagore's life-long endeavor was to configure
a "third way" by rejecting both the blank homogeneity of an
undifferentiated one and the particularistic insularities of a
multitude without a deeper center of coherence.
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