ABSTRACT
Rabindranath Tagore was the 14th child of Debendranath and Sarada Devi. The first full blossoming of Rabindranath’s poetical powers occurred after the writing of ‘Morning Songs’. From the foregoing we can conclude that some ten years after his religio-mystical experiences in Jorasanko and Sudder Street, Rabindranath wished to fashion a more personified imagery for what he came to regard as their source. Rabindranath discussed what the Indian nation should become also in discursive form in essays, articles and lectures. In the period Rabindranath wrote these articles, he also wrote a number of religious essays in which he tried to construct a public Brahmo spirituality inspired by the Brahmoism of his father. Rabindranath uses the metaphor of the sky and the sunlight to show how individual and universal do blend, are one and different at the same time. Rabindranath had little sympathy for the Hindu revivalist tendencies in Indian anti-colonial nationalism that became more and more prominent after 1905.
