If you find that this poem by Rabindranath Tagore reads more like a prayer chant from a religious book, you won't be far from the truth. The original Bengali poem which Tagore himself translated as below, was titled "Prayer". It is really a plea for freedom from dogma...!
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 towards 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...!
Stay tuned and A-W-A-K-E...!
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