INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
expression, Man, as a creation, representing the
Creator, and this is why of all creatures in has been
possible for him to comprehend this world in his
knowledge and in his feeling and imagination, to realize
in his individual spirit a union with a spirit that is every
where. (Religion of Man, p. 103) ‘My religion is a poet’s
religion. All that I feel about it is from vision and not
from knowledge” (ibid, 107) “The man whose inner
vision is bathed in illumination of his consciousness at
once realizes the spiritual unity reigning supreme over
all differences. His mind no longer awkwardly stumbles
over individual facts of separateness in the human
world, accepting them as final. He realizes that peace is
in the inner harmony that dwells in truth and not in any
outer adjustments. He knows that beauty carries an
eternal assurance of our spiritual relationship of reality,
which waits for its perfection in the response of our
love” (ibid. 108)
Thus the religion of the poet-artist achieves a
union with reality that profoundly makes reality near to
man-a man’s reality so to speak. It is to the nearness of
Man that the religion of Rabindranath leads and to
harmony that is dear to the heart of man. What a
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