"Is there any country, sir," pursued the history student, "where submission to Government is not due to fear?" "The freedom that exists in any countr… - Rabindranath Tagore

"Is there any country, sir," pursued the history student, "where submission to Government is not due to fear?" "The freedom that exists in any country," I replied, "may be measured by the extent of this reign of fear. Where its threat is confined to those who would hurt or plunder, there the Government may claim to have freed man from the violence of man. But if fear is to regulate how people are to dress, where they shall trade, or what they must eat, then is man's freedom of will utterly ignored, and manhood destroyed at the root."

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About Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known as Rabi Thakur, was a Bengali philosopher, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

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Native Name: রবীন্দ্রনাথ
Alternative Names: Rabīndranātha Thākur Kabiguru Tagore Bishwakabi R. Tagore Rabindranat Tagor Bhanu Singha Thakur Gurudev Biswakabi Nyi Wang Gönpo Tagore, rabindranath Ravindranath Thakur
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Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is
beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day
and night; it is not of the earth.
But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and
space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust.
Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your
palpitating heart.
The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe
to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother-
dust.

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প্রহর শেষের আলোয় রাঙা সেদিন চৈত্রমাস
তোমার চোখে দেখেছিলাম আমার সর্বনাশ ।
এ সংসারের নিত্যখেলায়,
প্রতিদিনের প্রাণের মেলায়,
বাটে ঘাটে হাজারলোকের হাস্য-পরিহাস –
মাঝখানে তার তোমার চোখে আমার সর্বনাশ ।
আমের বনে দোলা লাগে, মুকুল প’ড়ে ঝ’রে
চিরকালের চেনা গন্ধ হাওয়ায় ওঠে ভ’রে ।
মঞ্জরিত শাখায় শাখায়,
মৌমাছিদের পাখায় পাখায়,
ক্ষণে ক্ষণে বসন্তদিন ফেলেছে নিঃশ্বাস
মাঝখানে তার তোমার চোখে আমার সর্বনাশ ।

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