Tagore’s Idea of Self – Finite and Infinite
Tagore’s Idea of Self – Finite and Infinite

Summary/Abstract: As a poet and artist, Rabindranāth Tagore always aspired towards the realization of the transcendental personality of man, which he believed is immanent in the finite self only. In his writings, he laid stress on the realization of unity between the individual and the Universal Being through a perfect relationship. With Tagore, “religion” is the ultimate awakening of man’s ego-consciousness in the Universal Consciousness. It is a process of realizing the Infinite ‘I’ in the finite ‘I’, by the freedom of mind and creative activities, for the goodness of humanity at large. The aim of this paper is to bring out Tagore’s bifocal idea of the Self – the finite and the Infinite, his idea of humanism, Universal Man and his very own way of discovering the “religion of man”.

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