Devotion is dedication of the self to the All Serene. To Rabindranath Tagore, it is more than mere dedication. It is a vrata to be I perfect unison with the Vratapati, the Lord of askance in sincerity, purity and poignance.
To be christened with the spirituality of Tagore in the most intrinsic and poignant pattern is to muse and re-muse his devotional songs, and in doing so, one cannot but discover within oneself the lotus-land of spiritual excellence. Indeed, somewhere in the heartland of everyone lurks the unending beckoning of the All Beautiful.
Here are a hundred devotional songs of Rabindranath representing prayer and worship with diverse dimensions of joy, sorrow, awakening, introspection, aspiration, resolution and so on to encounter the All Beautiful.
Hitherto unknown to the national and the global lovers appreciators of Tagore due to language-constraints, A Hundred Devotional Songs of Tagore, the first of its kind in India and abroad, might be a resourceful and thrilling companion to the study of and quest for devotion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohit Chakrabarti
Mohit Chakrabarti, D. Litt. Teaches English and Education at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. Honoured with National Award. Credited with participation/ presentation/ acceptance of Papers in International/National conferences, symposia, seminars etc. including the World Assembly of Teacher Educators, the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Institution of Education, Singapore, First International Symposium on ‘India and World Literature’, University of Delhi, Delhi, Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Haifa, Israel, Workshop on Setting the Agenda for the 21 Century, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Syama Prasad Mookerjee Centenary Conference on Sustainable Economic Social and Political Reforms in the Information Age, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Member, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), New Delhi. Consistent and prolific contributor to studies and researches on Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Ganchi and Swami Vivekananda. Author of children’s literature in Bengali and English.
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