Tagore on Freedom

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by
narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening
thought and action;

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country
awake!”

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

2 thoughts on “Tagore on Freedom

  1. Yes…I wish people quoted him more than Gandhi.
    This poem is almost a cliche, it’s so well known..
    I’d like to find a good youtube performance of a Tagore song..

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