Gitanjali: Song Offerings

This poetic passage reflects the endless regeneration the speaker experiences through the divine's will, using the metaphor of a flute for the self, filled with ceaseless life by an infinite force. The touch of the divine transforms the speaker's heart, expanding it with unspeakable joy. Despite holding infinitesimal gifts in his small hands, the speaker is a vessel forever replenished by the divine, whose command to sing fills him with immense pride and emotion. Through song, life's discord harmonizes into sweet unity, offering both adoration and liberation, like a bird soaring across the sea. The speaker acknowledges their role as a singer in the divine's presence, cherished and eternal.

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About the Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes.

All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony--and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.

I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence.

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