I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring… - Rabindranath Tagore

Though the West has accepted as its teacher him who boldly proclaimed his oneness with his Father, and who exhorted his followers to be perfect as God, it has never been reconciled to this idea of our unity with the infinite being. It condemns, as a piece of blasphemy, any implication of man's becoming God. This is certainly not the idea that Christ preached, nor perhaps the idea of the Christian mystics, but this seems to be the idea that has become popular in the Christian west. But the highest wisdom in the East holds that it is not the function of our soul to gain God, to utilise him for any special material purpose. All that we can ever aspire to is to become more and more one with God. In the region of nature, which is the region of diversity, we grow by acquisition; in the spiritual world, which is the region of unity, we grow by losing ourselves, by uniting. Gaining a thing, as we have said, is by its nature partial, it is limited only to a particular want; but being is complete, it belongs to our wholeness, it springs not from any necessity but from our affinity with the infinite, which is the principle of perfection that we have in our soul.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

كثيرة هي رغباتي
و ان بكائي من اجلها لمثير للاشفاق
ولكنك كنت تنقذني على الدوام
برفضك القاسي لها
و يوما بعد يوم جعلتني جديرا بعطاياك
العظيمة البسيطة
التي كنت تمنحها لي
بلا طلب مني