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recognise this, you will be doing an injustice not to me alone but to them as well."46
Commenting on Rabindranath's art as a poet, the author says that it was
"...the Supreme Flutist who had chiselled him into the exquisite flute he was, must have done so because he could play through him some of his mystic melodies to better advantage than through the others.":47
He talks of various themes of Tagore's poetry. According to Dilip Roy, Rabindranath sang on the constant theme of self-exploration as it can be seen from a few lines of Jivan Devata, in which he asked 'the Lord of his Life:
'Thou cam'st to hail me, I know not for what end! Did'st thou, from thy lone heights
Smile on my days and nights,
My plays and strivings, O my life's one Friend?"48 Rabindranath discovered marvellous aspects of himself when he harped more and more on this theme and he sang of what he had glimpsed in Nature, Man, Love, Faith, the world as it is and as it might have been if human beings had lent themselves to be Flutes in the hands of the Supreme Flutist. Dilip Roy highlights the spontaneity of expression as it is found in Tagore's poetry.
Tagore frequently talked of heavenly existence men could have. But in this dreaming of heaven he did not become a Utopian, unrealistic, day-dreaming poet. He also criticized the flaws of the contemporary world in his poems, so that human beings could remove them from the ideal and heavenly world they aspire to have
Rabindranath knew it very well that "he had been missioned to evolve into a poet, kavi, first and last."49 A kavi in the Vedic sense means a seer. Here, Dilip Roy quotes the definition of kavi as it is given by Sri Aurobindo in the Future Poetry:
"...the authentic kavi transcribes what he has actually heard, and that is why the Vedas are called Shrutis, it is this receptivity to revelation that entitles the kavi to the title of an illuminate ... I only want to stress that on their highest flights the sage and the poet become kin, fellow-pilgrims, bound for the same
goal."50
Rabindranath had the rare gift to feel the pulse of the world with his own heart beat. As such, he received profound intuitions carrying the light of the eternal at every turn. He always aspired for freedom mukti, for instance:
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