Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free..
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
This was sung as a hymn in my school. I wonder what made me think of this all of a sudden today. How very apt & relevant it sounds even today.
Where knowledge is free..
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
This was sung as a hymn in my school. I wonder what made me think of this all of a sudden today. How very apt & relevant it sounds even today.
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