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from the noise and rush of town." (Sykes, Rabindranath Tagore p. 52)
These words of the Poet are illuminating, "I do not seek to glorify poverty, but simplicity is of greater price than the appendages of luxury. The simplicity of which I speak is not merely the effect of a lack of superfluity; it is one of the signs of perfection. When this dawns on mankind, the unhe althy fog, which now besmirchos civilization will be lifted. It is for this lack of simplicity that the necessaries of life have become so rare and costly." (The Centre of Indian Culture p. 7).
How touching and sarcastic are these remarks of poet Tagore, “Happy child, the cradle is still to thee a vast space. But when thou art a man the boundless world will be too small for thee."
Some hold that civilization consists in the incroasing of wants and the plans to satisfy them. This view is contradicted by our own experiences. The want is really like a devil, which can never be satisfied. Acharya Gunbhadra's reasoning is very sound when he says, "Every living being has such a deep pit of worldly desires that all objects in the world amount to a partiele for it. What and how much, then, can each get ? Useless is the desire of sense-enjoyments."
The rational and noble mind understands that he is not the body. The Self or the Soul is different from the material body. The ignorant forgets his ownself and treats his frame as his own Self. Ame
