Section Two
Interlogue - II
Dear Friends,
The moment, cordiality embraces
love,
The very same moment
Light dispels darkness:
The snowy peaks glitter, glaciers gleam,
The waters shine and twinkle, like stars,
In the clear, blue skies;
A cool breeze blows.
The swinging ripples lend grace
And go a-dancing, a-dancing
To the rhythm & music of soothing splashes
Amidst the flashes of inner and outer reflections
From mirrory lakes;
The earth goes green:
As the guilder rose bursts open
Into welcome bloom
To push back cloudy gloom:
Dear Reader,
Breathe refreshing air under the shade of
breezy chinars, bring down tempers, calm tension ridden, violent minds and work
for peace, progress and prosperity throughout the country, Let us, in all
humility, submission & BHAKTI, join together in prayer, chanting Rabindra
Nath Tagore's exhortations to the Almighty. Lord of the universe. Thus:
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 sands of dead habit:
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thoughts and actions,
Unto that heaven of freedom, my father, let my counts,
awake.
Rabindra Nath Tagore
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