Age considers; youth ventures. - Rabindranath Tagore

When the knife was busy with my life's most intimate tie, my mind was so clouded with fumes of intoxicating gas that I was not in the least aware of what a cruel thing was happening. Possibly this is woman's nature. When her passion is roused she louses her sensibility for all that is outside it. When, like the river, we women keep to our banks, we give nourishment with all that we have: when we overflow them we destroy with all that we are.

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.

আজিকে চাঁদ উঠবে প্রথম রাতে
নদীর পারে নারিকেলের বনে,
দেবালয়ের বিজন আঙিনাতে
পড়বে আলো গাছের ছায়া-সনে ।
দখিন-হাওয়া উঠবে হঠাত্‍ বেগে,
আসবে জোয়ার সঙ্গে তারি ছুটে-
বাঁধা তরী টেউয়ের দোলা লেগে
ঘাটের পরে মরবে মাথা কুটে ।

জোয়ার যখন মিশিয়ে যাবে কূলে,
থমথমিয়ে আসবে যখন জল,
বাতাস যখন পড়বে ঢুলে ঢুলে,
চন্দ্র যখন নামবে অস্তাচল,
শিথিল তনু তোমার ছোঁওয়া ঘুমে
চরণতলে পড়বে লুটে তবে ।
বসে আছি শয়ন পাতি ভূমে,
তোমার এবার সময় হবে কবে ?