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by Rabindranath Tagore — a poem card from Justes Mots
The speaker describes the hidden divine force that awakens their being through pleasure and pain, weaving the world's beauty through endless guises and names. Tagore's poem celebrates the beloved as the eternal animator of consciousness across ages. Expresses spiritual devotion through intimate, love-like language.
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches.
He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the
chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.
He it is who weaves the web of this *maya* in evanescent hues of gold and
silver, blue and green, and lets peep out through the folds his feet, at whose
touch I forget myself.…
Themes: gratitude · friendship · admiration · love