On The Day When the Lotus Bloomed
by
Rabindranath Tagore
(Poem & Summary)
In this lyric, number twenty, Tagore wants to say, that God resides in every man's heart. The poet has been searching everywhere for God and His love. Finally, he finds that it is there within himself.
On The Day When the Lotus Bloomed
On
the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying, and I knew it not.
My
basket
was empty and the flower remained unheeded.
Only
now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my dream and felt a
sweet
trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind.
That
vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to me that it was
the
eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion.
I
knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that this perfect
sweetness had
blossomed in the depth of my own heart.
Summary
In
this poem, the poet talks about how one day he realizes that the God whom he
has been searching for and waiting from so long to come into His presence,
resides within himself. The poet was gathering flowers but on the day the lotus
came into bloom, he did not see it and thus failed to pluck it, his basket
remained empty. The poet became sad and he felt a strangeness in the south
wind. This faint, untraceable sweetness touched the poet's heart and made him
long for it so much that his heart hurt and he felt that it might be the summer
breeze. Then, he realizes that the breeze was his own and the perfect sweetness
was blooming from within his own heart.
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