This is again a review of an Audiobook called ‘Sadhana’ by Rabindranath Tagore.
In this book, the great poet and philosopher Ravindranath has penned his reflections on a Vedic way of Life and the contrasted it with the western concept of ‘Existentialism’ – ‘I think therefore I am’ famously propounded by Jean Paul Sartre.
The poet had a very fortunate childhood in the company of his father – Sage Devendranath and experienced the Vedic philosophies and the ‘Brahman’ way of life as part of a very profound and spiritual upbringing. In his work he poses a rather intriguing perspective of the ancient spiritual world view, prevalent in the Indian subcontinent sometime during the Pre-Harappan era, where the whole world and the universe was perceived as an interplay of various manifestation of an omni-present whole – ‘the One’. He never actually equated this ‘One’ to any form of God. But in his writings the listener can feel an unmistakable resonance to the eternal supreme consciousness… an abstract yet certain definition of the meaning of existence. He comments, the deep divide that we face today between our internal and external universe, had started from the day we built walls… to build houses and cities… to demarcate physical areas that we could call our ‘own’.
You can download this Audiobook from the Librivox Classic collection from this link. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Please post your comments after you have listened to this meditative masterpiece.
http://librivox.org/sadhana-by-rabindranath-tagore/
