Mystic Flights of Tagore

The Mystic Flights of Tagore tries to show how Tagore maintains the possibilities of a highly developed state of human mind and consciousness, which fall within the ambit of human efforts of a very different nature and quality. Such a developed state of human consciousness is identical with the Supreme Power, the Supreme Self that governs the universe. It traces different expressions in Tagore’s concept of ‘Jiban Debta’- a reality which is very much human but still very much capable of transcending the human limitations of thought and action. Tagore’s quest for such possibilities in his own personality as well as in the world of Nature surrounding the human world marks the fundamental cord of his poetic persona, which we may appreciate as his mystic pantheism. Evidently, he translates into art his own observations, he establishes such concepts and arrives at such conclusions as display his insatiable quest for the Transcendental Beyond. This book reflects the mystic aspect of Tagore’s work along with the historical and cultural contexts of mystical and transcendental poetry in the East and the West. Attention is given to the individual poets pursuing such commitment in English Literature and also in Indian Writing in English. With this background, the tenets of mysticism and transcendentalism in Tagore’s poetry have been explored, along with how Tagore has proved to be a fellow traveler to the Yogis and saints, the mature and sensitive.