God in the Eyes of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath is a theistic philosopher. According to him, the ultimate reality is the personal God having infinite qualities. Tagore describes God in the following way-“Whatever name may have been given to the divine reality, it has found its highest place in the history of our religion owing to its human character giving meaning to the idea of sin and sanctity and offering an eternal background to all the ideals of perfection which have their harmony in man's own nature.” (1949: 229) Tagore's conception of theistic God is related with the religion of man. He imagines God in two ways. First of all he believes that God is beyond the humanself and the entire universe. There is no conceivable attribute of God-mental or physical. Rabindranath says-“The positive aspect of the infinite is in 'avaitanm', in an absolute unity in which comprehension of multitude is not as in an outer receptacle but as in an inner perfection that permeates and exceeds its contents like the beauty in a lotus, which is ineffably more than all the constituents of the flower.” (Ibid: 69) The supreme God is beyond our reach and is unknown and unknowable.the research make an attempt to unearth idea of ‘god’ in Rabindrath Tagore.