Gitanjali, a Religious Expression of Cosmogony and Devotional Quest

Abstract

Gitanjali, the ‘offering of songs' represents unity in diversity and a synthesis of the material and spiritual life in hundred and three poems. Rabindra Nath Tagore the writer of Gitanjali is a Patriot, Philosopher, Mystic and a Visionary Poet. Suffused with mystical imagination and aided by the free flowing movement, the book creates a religious expression of Cosmogony and Devotional quest that expresses God's finite love and humanity's deep compassion for all things beautiful aspects. The series of poems in Gitanjali, are organized in accordance with artistic aesthetics. Tagore seeks his realization of God through his songs by receiving the glimpses of the infinite in the midst of the finite. The central theme is the realization of the divine through self purification and service to humanity.