Gurudev Ke Saath

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

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same way Gurudev built bridge of love between Bharat and the other nations through his life and literature. Civilization also accomplishes the same task. It unites - several hearts, people, nations, religions and different aspects of life! Civilization builds relationship of love amongst many sides of Truth.
But what this civilization is? By remaining in the shelter of Gurudev's life and through the little study of his literature, it seems that Civilization takes birth only when the association of Nature and Human being takes place. On having that association the seeker of Civilization experiences oneness, perfectness and synthesis of life. Once Gurudev had used one word during his lecture at the Oxford University, which seems to be the super-most definition of Civilization. He had told: "CODENCE OF COMRADESHIP": the Rhythm of Relationship, Rhythm of Brotherhood. When that Rhythm is absorbed in different aspects of life, then life definitely becomes joyous, but side by side gives inspiration to the seeker of civilization.
Gurug
Gurudev was a lover of the Beauty of Nature by Birth itself - nature and characteristic of a Poet after all! But he experienced the Creator behind that Beauty of Nature and the Beauty of Unity in the cosmos.
It's the story of one day:
At that time Gurudev was sixteen years old. He used to see the Sunrise always every day. That day also he was visualizing it. All of a sudden he came across such an experience that, "The veil before his eyes has been slipped off and he has reached inside the Home of the Mystery of the Cosmos!"
Here he visualized Unity, everywhere Unity. After this experience his confidence in Unity of life increased through Sadhana --- seekings of aspirations. He studied the Upanishads. Deep impact of Sanskrit Literature --- particularly the literature of Kalidasa caught hold of him. More impact of Vaishnava devotees, Bouls of Bengal and also the Medieval saints, remained spreaded on him.
. From that day he realized that, "His religion as a Poet is the only way that he can express the Synthesis, the Unity, the Perfectness of life in different forms of Short stories, Novels, Songs, Essays etc". This is a key to know his Self, to get acquaintance of him. Sometimes it strikes after glancing through several songs of Gitanjali that whether he won't have inner inspiration of writing this song perhaps after listening to the songs of some Vaishnava devotee? Such twothree songs touch the memory in which Gurudev says: "There is no thing like disappointment, failure at all in life, that magnificent magician God hides hope with his art in that to which we call (as) 'Disappointment', we call (as) 'failure'. He hides success behind it".
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