Gurudev Ke Saath

Author(s): Gurdial Mallikji, Pratap J Tolia, Sumitra P Toliya
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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"INFINITE OCEAN OF PEACE IS FLOWING, BOAT SAILOR! I DIDN'T GET YOUR VISION SO FAR...... WHEN WHEN SHALL I HAVE THE SAME ? SAIL MY LIFEBOAT IN THIS OCEAN OF YOURS AND LET ME BE ONE WITH YOUR VAST UNIVERSE... YOUR EXISTENCE..... YOUR COMPASSION AND YOUR FORGIVENESS WILL BE MY COMPANIONS FOR EVER ON THE PATH OF MY LONG JOURNEY...... MINGLE MY FINITE EXISTENCE INTO YOUR INFINITE ONE....." "O SAVIOUR SAILOR DIVINE.............!".
This indication, this aspiration of Gurudev unto the Infinite, unto the Limitless, is explained in a song of a medieval saint, quite lucidly :
"O Bird ! what has happened to you? You didn't sing even one song during the whole night when you were in your nest! You remained lying silently for the entire night!! Now you have come out in this open sky...... and you sing a song only when you come out. Rest and safety were there, while here is fear......! Only Fear !!"
The Bird replied:
"I acquired plenty of indulgements.... when my time was passed from limit to limit ........ but now when I have come out from limit to limitlessness, then only I could realize my Self, Then only I could render the Song of myself, my Soul, my Atma........."
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(Gurdial Mallikji: Born : 7-5-1896 : Passed away : 14-4-1970)
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Reprinted from the "Aryan Path" August 1960.
A POET'S CALL
[IN THIS GUEST-EDITORIAL Shri Gurdial Mallik writes movingly of his Guru, the Poet Tagore, whose birth centenary India will be celebrating on a nation-wide scale in 1961. August marks the anniversary of his passing and so it is fitting to publish this tribute by one who lived and laboured at Santiniketan for many long years. Tagore, who was both Poet and Philosopher, wrote :
When in relation to them (the arts ) we talk of aesthetics, we must know that it is not about beauty in its ordinary meaning, but in that deeper meaning which a poet has expressed in his utterance : "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
- Ed.]
"I AM A POET" - thus Rabindranath Tagore often used to introduce himself to his audience,. Perhaps he could not help doing so. For, even when he was as yet a child, he had sensed what his particular vocation would be. It was,
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