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Modern Predicament and Relevance of Rabindranath’s Thoughts and Wisdom


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1 West Karanji Vidhyasagar High School, Karanji, Purba Midnapur (W.B.), India
2 Bastar University, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India
     

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Tagore’s thoughts and wisdom are quite relevant today in the age of social and political reawakening. His humanistic ideas, inner and outer harmony, spiritualism, individualism, Grihdharms , Rajdharma, Samajdharma etc. reflected in his poems and novels are the superb ideas that help people to worship the humanity of God and divinity of man. He opposes capitalism favoring Socialism and Karl Marx for equality and good of human being and classless society and equal distribution of property. He appreciated a lot to Socialism of Soviet administration for its economic freedom, sharing of partnership, rural reconstruction and so on. He propounds that success of democracy depends on education people have. He is against illiteracy hence we need to educate all citizens of the country. He advocates self-sufficiency. For him man is the ultimate truth in his philosophy He is in favour of self-government and decentralization of power. He builds a bridge of understanding between man and nature, man and machine , East and West, man and God that places him as interpreter and diagnostician of modern maladies. He is a cosmopolitan humanist who stands not in an age but of all ages with his combination of thought and action, artistic, creative and constructive ideas .

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Modern Predicament, Spiritualism, Philosophy, Humanistic ideas, Grihdharma, Rajdharma, Samajdharma, Democracy, Capitalism, Socialism, Individualism, Renaissance, Nationalism, Social Reawakening.
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Authors

Somnath Kolay
West Karanji Vidhyasagar High School, Karanji, Purba Midnapur (W.B.), India
N. D. R. Chandra
Bastar University, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India

Abstract


Tagore’s thoughts and wisdom are quite relevant today in the age of social and political reawakening. His humanistic ideas, inner and outer harmony, spiritualism, individualism, Grihdharms , Rajdharma, Samajdharma etc. reflected in his poems and novels are the superb ideas that help people to worship the humanity of God and divinity of man. He opposes capitalism favoring Socialism and Karl Marx for equality and good of human being and classless society and equal distribution of property. He appreciated a lot to Socialism of Soviet administration for its economic freedom, sharing of partnership, rural reconstruction and so on. He propounds that success of democracy depends on education people have. He is against illiteracy hence we need to educate all citizens of the country. He advocates self-sufficiency. For him man is the ultimate truth in his philosophy He is in favour of self-government and decentralization of power. He builds a bridge of understanding between man and nature, man and machine , East and West, man and God that places him as interpreter and diagnostician of modern maladies. He is a cosmopolitan humanist who stands not in an age but of all ages with his combination of thought and action, artistic, creative and constructive ideas .

Keywords


Modern Predicament, Spiritualism, Philosophy, Humanistic ideas, Grihdharma, Rajdharma, Samajdharma, Democracy, Capitalism, Socialism, Individualism, Renaissance, Nationalism, Social Reawakening.

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