I didn't go anywhere during the May Day Golden Week holiday this year. I hid behind a small bungalow in an orchard six or seven miles away from the county seat, quietly reading Tagore's Gitanjali.
Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the Swedish poet Heidenstam said when he recommended it to the judges: "I don't remember whether I have read such beautiful lyric poems in the past 20 years, and I really don't know how long I have enjoyed it, as if I were drinking a cool and fresh spring ... His works are not controversial, sharp, hypocritical, arrogant or humble. If a poet can have these qualities at any time, then he is eligible for the Nobel Prize ... Now, we have finally found an ideal poet with a truly great level, and he is this Tagore poet. "
Not long ago, I told a literary friend that Tagore's Gitanjali was really well written! But this friend replied that he had turned a few pages and couldn't understand it at all. After that, I stopped recommending this book to him, because it is difficult to understand without heart. Just like I once read a limerick in an old collection of poems, "That's because there are no strings/fingers wrong/you can pluck them at will/it's like hitting a wooden stick", as Tyon said, "When someone reads my poem and says that he can't understand it, then I'm really at a loss. If someone smells a flower and says he doesn't understand it, the answer is: there is no need to understand it here, it's just the fragrance ... "
In Hindi, Gitanjali means "offering a song", that is, a poem dedicated to God. In the author's own words, it is "dedicated to God who gave him physical light and poetic talent." This "God" is very mysterious. Who is he? The poet himself said, "Really, I can't say it." The worship of God and the desire to combine with God are a basic theme of this collection of poems, but Chittaglia is not a religious poem praising God in the general sense. In this world, there are fresh and colorful natural landscapes, wonderful and magical scenes of the other side of the world, recording the experience of real life and the joys and sorrows of the world. It has both the piety and nobility of saints and the deep affection and love of mortals. All this is not only the expression of the poet's extensive, meticulous, rich and complicated inner world, but also the ultimate beauty of poetry everywhere.
It consists of 103 poems, which Tagore selected from his three collections of poems-poems scattered in newspapers and magazines such as Nai Vidya, Koya, Chittaglia and 1908. I savored word for word, paragraph by paragraph, which was really enlightening.
1 can make the keys sound sweet, which is not only the joy of the player, but also the regeneration of the piano; Life is really like a wine glass, you must fill it and drink it up until God takes back the empty glass. The value of cup life is also realized through continuous transmission. A cup that has never been filled with wine is lifeless, so eternal touch means eternal life.
2. Just like a thrush doesn't guard against me, sometimes I talk to it in ventriloquism, and it responds cheerfully. It treats me like the same kind, without hostile and greedy eyes, just like a clear spring can give people a cool and sweet feeling. People with ghosts in their hearts can't hide from thrush's eyes.
3. Beautiful and melodious singing is like a bird flying in the sky. Wherever it goes, there is only the listener's sacred yearning. It is like a magic golden key, which can open the door of any treasure, no matter whether relatives or enemies visit, there is only a smiling face of welcome and no eyes of hatred. This so-called music has no borders, and the melody has no forbidden zone. Its strength is not hard but soft, and its existence is not concrete but abstract.
Being with light is like a shadow approaching the sun. Although there is burning pain, it is the power of love, just like throwing alum into muddy water. The process of clarification is also a process of debate and struggle. It is also a process of defeating oneself and surpassing oneself. I saw my muddled past clearly, and naturally I had an aboveboard future.
When a person feels tired after a long journey, he should have a rest. It seems to be a delay, but it is this moment of breathing that avoids the danger of exceeding the limit. It's like suddenly stopping at the edge of a cliff, which is both harsh and pleasant.
6. "Flowers can be folded straight, don't wait until there are no flowers." Cherishing jade with passion is a kind of redemption for love. When you get it, you also give her regeneration; Before the lamp oil burns out, sprinkle a handful of salt of love, and let the dying sigh generated by the bleak shine brilliantly!
7. At this time, I realized that children in rural areas, barefoot in hot summer, find cicadas and make snowmen on frozen soil in winter, which adults and children in cities can't understand and get, but for them, stepping barefoot on healthy land is like lying naked between their mothers' soft, comfortable, sexy and elastic breasts. Summer is not hot, winter is not cold, just like the intimacy of lovers. No matter whether they embrace each other in spring, summer, autumn and winter, there is only attraction and pleasure, and there is no other discomfort.
8. The sense of shame is the most beautiful color in the world. The sense of shame nourished by love is by no means comparable to the angry eyes caused by violence, just as the beauty automatically takes off her clothes on the first night of the bride because of the long-accumulated passionate love, which is completely different from the naked body exposed by the groom because he has no love.
9 10, the limbs are not diligent, and the natural grains are not divided. Only the hands of labor can carry the gift of hope. No matter how far and near the ideal road in the dream is, only when you wake up can you take your fleshy feet and walk on the realistic soil. Look at the farmer scraping the soil barefoot. It seems that the richer the soil, the dirtier his feet. But this unclean land only dedicated the fruits of harvest to barefoot people.
1 1, God cares for people with ideals and is closer to those who take practical actions for their ideals. He encourages humble laborers to achieve nobility through labor, because if God also eats fireworks, then every kind of fruit will come from simple labor instead of noble empty talk.
12, the truth is the simplest, but in the process of pursuing the truth, I don't know how many people have paid hardships and even lives. Therefore, any luck will be wasted and we must start over.
13, a profound and philosophical truth, may be illogical. Sometimes logic is just a trap. Contrary to logic, you may be able to break out of the trap and the rigid mindset.
Everything has come true, how cheap and vulgar this wish is; Unreachable desires are eternal temptations. The moon can be picked at will. I'm afraid there is no moon in the night sky today. The reason why she still hangs brightly in the sky is an eternal encouragement to the world. Human beings are born and died, hoping to give them a foot pad and disappointed, and then take away the foot pad, cheering and sighing, making people blossom and fall.
14, God doesn't meet one person's requirements, just to impress everyone. With the tough tone of rejecting one person, everyone dare not dream. However, the more things you can't get, the more infinite charm you have, which makes human beings pursue endlessly, and those who slack off will be out, and those who persist will live forever.
15 In fact, when the host didn't say anything, you were already singing there, just like frogs in spring, insects in summer, crickets in autumn and wind in winter. You took pains to sing and sing, and completed a short life course with a grateful work.
16, that's enough. What honor can surpass God's invitation to you? Now that I have been listed as a guest, do you still have to ask me if I can join other guests? Can I pay my respects? Can I express my congratulations?
17, love is generous, like the sun reflecting everything in the world; Love is stingy. When she only gives you a ray of sunshine, you can't expect to get a piece of it. Love is a kind of fate, but she insists on pursuing her people; Of course, it depends on waiting, but she despises those who insist on her and refuses to rape.
18, someone uses busyness to drive away troubles. In fact, love is sometimes just a little guy who likes to join in the fun. She is afraid of loneliness. So, you don't want to have her alone. She is more like a balloon. How much you inject, how much she shows you. Therefore, love is a gift of dedication, and the emphasis is on reciprocity.
19, praise can be rewarded, but she hates tireless confession. So people all over the world say that "silence is golden". Just like between husband and wife, excessive enthusiasm to the point of mutual respect is not only very tired but also annoying. It's like making wine. If it exceeds the limit, it will become vinegar.
20. When a quiet person stands between heaven and earth, he has no desire for the world, and the surrounding environment freely expresses his instinct because of his indifference. Flowers are rigid and open, so you don't have to worry about being picked, and birds don't need to guard against being attacked, just endure to sing. As a result, a pure heart, keen sense of smell and the door of one's own seven senses suddenly opened, and the heart flowers were fragrant, and the heart songs interacted harmoniously with the birds' songs and attracted each other.
2 1, spring, because of excitement, seems to be in a hurry and panic. The surge of spring tide collided with the winter boat moored on the shore. If the owner is a little sleepy, he will miss the voyage, even run aground, or even be farther from the other shore. The so-called "Spring Festival Evening is worth a thousand dollars."
22. Some beautiful things, often with some mystery, flash at the moment when you are sleepy because of waiting. How many people in the world want to see the gorgeous beauty that is short-lived, but it must be destiny takes a hand, just as the ancients said, "It takes a hundred years to build a ship and a thousand years to build a pillow."
After the storm, there is silence, just like the feeling of weightlessness when you are driving a canoe from the peak to the trough. In this process of transformation and adaptation, the former scares the latter and then misses it, and feels endless aftertaste in the taste.
23. Friends of the soul can be others or themselves. When you treat others as friends, others will always treat you as someone who likes you. The trust between two people is like the relationship between wick and lamp oil, which illuminates an interconnected road and a road leading to dreams. When you treat yourself as a friend, you can also pour out your joys and sorrows. The other one is your loyal listener, who only understands sympathy without sarcasm. As James said: One should try to be his best friend, so as to get a good partner.
Night is like a magnetic field, which can attract everything together. During the day, you see the peaks are too high, you see the colorful clouds are too far away, and it is too difficult for you to miss the lovers. And when dusk comes and everything is silent, these distances are gone, and you can sleep with your arms around the mountain.
25. People who can't rest can't work. This sentence is not only simple but also profound. When you are exhausted, you should immediately stop what you are doing and what you are feeling. You can't do anything well because of yawning and dozing, and you will do something wrong. When you talk to someone who yawns, it is neither true nor polite. If you yawn and worship God, it's blasphemy. When you are tired, you can sleep peacefully, and then you can do things in full spirit and worship God, with both form and spirit, which complement each other.
26. In fact, God is always testing whether you can afford to let go of generosity. If you fidget and can't sleep at night, God will never come to you because you are too superficial and hypocritical. Only a person who does nothing wrong can sleep and dream peacefully, and leisurely dreams and beautiful music are the most harmonious songs. If you don't waste a night's sleep, you can't smell God. If you see his face, you are pretending to sleep and deceiving God.
27. Light is the soul of the lamp and the dream of the lamp; Oil is just a body, and the lamp is its bed. If the light doesn't work, it's death. If it is lit, it is closer to death. The former is waiting for death, the latter is nirvana. The soul flies away, just like water vapor turns into a cloud, which contains rain, and so on.
Road, sometimes not at the foot but in the heart, the road at the foot can not reach the road in the heart; If you have a road in your heart, you can find your way where there is no road. The light is sometimes invisible, just as the philosopher said, "As long as your heart is bright, you are not afraid of the darkness under your feet."
28. Constraints are very strict and terrible, but if you break them, people's bad habits will grow wildly, so angels are very painful. A ship that longs for freedom. If you give it complete freedom, it will always enjoy the freedom without freedom in the whirlpool. If it takes off the rudder and sails.
29. Once a person becomes famous, his name becomes a signboard. The self on the signboard is no longer the original self, but a deified statue, in front of which you have to worship yourself. Now I am constantly refreshing myself to avoid being eclipsed by time, so I became my own slave. Only in the dead of night or where no one is there, dare to gasp loudly, fart wantonly and cry sadly. At first, I was happy for the name, but gradually I got tired of it, and finally I was hurt by it.
30. The other me sometimes thinks faster and acts more secretly than the original me. Whenever I want to control or instruct him, he controls me effortlessly. People, perhaps relying on this instant division and integration, constantly update the old self and integrate the two selves. ...
3 1, rich people, rich people, is that wealth dominates the "Lord", the Lord becomes a prisoner, and wealth is a prison. It's like someone loves to hear a bird sing and keeps it in a cage; Some people like to listen to birds sing and then put them back into nature. Because the song of freedom is a song of free singing.
32. It is selfish and cruel to take others' freedom for yourself, and it is also a kind of deprivation. You can pay attention to love, but you can't imprison it. Love doesn't have to be returned, but it must be returned.
33. Pretending to be kind will eventually reveal an ugly face and nature, pretending to kiss the child's hand brought by a woman, so as to occupy the child's mother's heart.
34. No matter how precious the treasure is, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, no matter how happy and sweet the love is, it is just a cocktail prepared by God and placed on the table before you die. Only when you have breath can you enjoy it. One breath can't even take away a trace of fragrance.
Life is actually a moral constraint. I kept my eyes open and looked around warily for fear of crossing the line. Try to show your loyalty in every word and deed. As long as you have a breath, you can't turn a blind eye to morality, just like the police lock the thief on themselves and relax a little. Everyone wants to take a breath. In fact, when the thief feels sleepy, the police are trying to relax.
35. "There, the heart is infinite ... there, the world will not be divided into pieces by the walls of a small home ..." The "there" here refers to the realm and ability that only the free kingdom has, and this kingdom of heaven is based on the poet's free imagination. He often wants to move this "there" to reality. However, due to the huge project, the poet spent his whole life trying to move "there" here, but kept shuttling between "there" and here, constantly calling on people to work hard! Work hard! We can definitely build this place into a "there". Mankind has awakened, and generations have made unremitting efforts. ...
36. Pray that the Lord will clear the foundation for his thoughts, but he will make up his mind to eradicate them with external force. But it is not the root of poverty that is eradicated, but the accumulation of greasy dirt. Too much rotten mud makes it difficult for the tower of noble morality to take root. The so-called "give me strength" wish is the poet's inner cry! The poet is cheering for himself, just like the relay race, constantly telling and encouraging himself that "persistence, persistence, persistence is victory!" Cheer for yourself. Because, the reason why many things fail and fall short is to loosen the clenched teeth at the most critical moment and not call on the other side to cheer for themselves.
37. This is another self-potential, just like the fuel tanks attached to airplanes and cars. People should not despair at any time, but believe in survival. People's willpower is sometimes far superior to physical strength.
38, this is a kind of paralysis of playing hard to get, your opponent is playing for you, and at the same time, he is lurking around you. When you are completely intoxicated with the friendship and joy in front of you, the sword has approached your heart and throat. When you wake up, it is too late to regret everything.
When bad luck comes, people always rely on the expectation of good luck to ease this embarrassment. When they are in dire straits, people who still have hope are often more out of danger than those who have been disheartened before the disaster comes. Believing in the future and eager for help is a kind of confidence and strength in itself. People find their potential in a dead end. Sometimes your call is as powerful as external force. Therefore, the labor horn absorbs the power of heaven and earth like a magnet!
40. Pray to God for rain without a cloud. This seemingly ignorant piety can touch people all over the world, although it can't touch the sky. Once people are moved, they can't stop crying After countless tears evaporated, they rose into the air and became clouds made of rain. Besides, people's eyes are full of tears, which just moistens the dry heart. Although I hate the heat in midsummer, how can I cook my hopes without this heat wave?
4 1, a person who has never had a lover in his heart, can't understand the anxiety of waiting for a lover but not meeting him; A person who has never had a lover will not have the pleasure of imagining his lover as infinitely beautiful; A person who has never loved is a cripple who can't understand others.
Because walking in the ocean of love, Bora Bora is boundless; The world of two people is the intersection of hearts, and others can't reach this holy land by secular.
43. This king may be a virtual king, because it is almost impossible for a real king to enter the poet's fairy tale world; Similarly, it is difficult for poets to keep a real king in their hearts. Yes, there is no king full of childlike interest in reality, and if there is, it will not go on. Because secular and power do not allow naive rulers. Therefore, rulers are the most boring, boring and shameless.
44. Although nature changes endlessly, when you adjust your mind to keep pace with it, it will bring endless fun. Just like an artist holding a musical instrument in his hand, a few strings can make his mood ups and downs, cadence, dance and be elated. Wind, rain, snow, eyes, shadows, thunder, electricity, flowers and plants, birds and insects singing, spring, summer, autumn and winter, incisively and vividly. The poet's childlike innocence is enough to imagine and describe the world in front of him as a fairy tale with infinite beauty and joy.
45. The poet heard and witnessed the footsteps of time coming to the world with the seasons, and walked quickly. Time shapes everything and time destroys everything. When time stops, the world will stop.
46. Time is chasing people, and people are chasing time. Chasing after chasing, time remains the same, but people are crazy; Time is not tired, people are tired. Tired people hate that time passes too fast, and walking in the wind is too slow. People are affectionate, and the sky is ruthless. "If the sky is sentimental, it will grow old."
47. Children's sleep in the morning is even higher than the gold content. Cowherd was forced to wake up in his sleep, just like robbing him of his treasure. I really hope I can fight with you. Only when primary school students stumble on their way to school with yawning feet and the whole person is still dreaming can you understand that "I woke up briskly in this spring morning" is a cruel adjective.
48. There is no need to pursue anything, because the environment and mood that the poet gets at this moment are things that countless ordinary scholars can't pursue all their lives. In a beautiful spring, where flowers are in full bloom, birds are singing, frogs are croaking, fresh grass is everywhere, the water is as clear as a mirror, and the breeze is blowing gently, what better enjoyment can there be? Unless you're crazy, you want shit instead of jade.
49. Although the decadent voice of the court is tender as water, it lacks the original law of life. Just like the Manchu-Han banquet, although it is all delicious food, it has lost its natural flavor. Although professional singers sing with clear pronunciation and mellow voice, they are quite satisfactory, but they are far less pure than the children's voice of the folk village girl shepherd boy. Although the thatched cottage is simple, it is far cleaner than the palace. The music produced by high technology is far from the inductive power of the sound of nature, and returning to simplicity is the foundation of all goodness and beauty in the world.
A beggar begged from door to door in the village, but no one was willing to give him charity. Finally, I walked to the door of a family almost as poor as him, but the poor family gave the rest of the lunch to the beggar. The beggar gratefully said to him, "Thank you! Thank you for saving my hunger, but I have nothing on me. " He picked up a stone at his feet and solemnly said to his benefactor, "To express my gratitude to you, let me use this stone as a reward." You can keep it. It may be useful to you. "
But the poor man didn't mean to laugh at the beggar at all, just said "thank you!" " He also said, "You don't need that much. I'll get a knife from the kitchen and cut it off a little. " When he came out with a kitchen knife, the beggar had disappeared. He picked up the stone humorously and walked into the house. When he put it on the table, it suddenly turned into an ingot of gold ... He hurried to the door and bowed devoutly in the direction where the beggar left.
5 1, in fact, the king didn't come at all, didn't come at all, it was just an illusion that people expected, just like waiting for Godot. However, when a king is so admired and longed for by the people, he should feel satisfied, and he should really come to the heart of the people who all the people are waiting for. The world can understand this persistence, and it is understandable to do some irrational behavior for this.
People are determined to win whatever they desire in their hearts. God's gift is not a worldly thing, sometimes it is a magical power, and sometimes it is a symbolic power. This kind of talent, only worthy people, can bear and possess what God has given him. It is a kind of determination and will, and it is a lamp that penetrates the soul.
53 is a shining sword of justice, and the power of the sword is the same as that of the hand holding it. It expresses the inner sharpness, beauty and sometimes naked flame with a beautiful appearance, which can pierce the darkness and burn the haze. How many people who are narrow-minded or dirty and obscene in nature dare not face up to beauty, just as they dare not face up to the burning flame.
Sometimes giving a thirsty traveler a handful of water will give a desperate traveler the strength to move on and the courage to pursue hope. A handful of seemingly worthless water is far better than two thousand gold and priceless jade in some cases. The ungrateful heart is cultivated, not impulsive. A person with a beautiful mind has a pair of beautiful eyes, and the world in front of him is naturally more beautiful. He not only appreciates and praises beauty, but also defends and creates it.
55. Flowers among thorns are like one or two blessings of life's suffering. Any extremism that exaggerates or ignores darkness and light is not a correct outlook on life. Yes, the poor also have children, even a moment of joy can sublimate love, beggars can sometimes meet good people and invite them to eat free food, and the blind can smell the fragrance and distinguish the color of flowers. Enlarging happiness and compressing pain can sometimes change a person's outlook on life.
56. Love, like fingers and keys, only tacit understanding can produce pleasant piano sounds. Love needs a carrier, just like a mother can't express her concern for love without a baby, just like a couple can't vent their feelings without men, women and boys. If God doesn't have everything, how can he help the world? Love and being loved are interactive.
57. Only the bright people love the light, and only the bright heart cherishes the light. Praise light is praise justice. Because a person with no light and a heart with no light will not like light. People who prefer black-box operation, as the folk say, "there are ghosts in their hearts", because "it is certainly shameful to do it in a closed room, but opening the door is aboveboard." Under the sun-flowers bloom, birds sing, bees fly, and children are happy.
58. In fact, Tai Weng's life journey is not all happiness, flowers and smiling faces. He has had unbearable sufferings and blows. Whether it is love, affection or friendship, they have been tortured by ruthless disease and death. But he always sings cheerful songs, such as The Ice Sculptor, which brings comfort to creatures and writes a song to the world to caress the pain. Leave the pain to yourself and give happiness and happiness to others. Use the voice of life to please others, to touch suffering and to dispel sadness. He doesn't want to immerse the world in pain, but wants to make everyone laugh and walk a long and short life journey with pure childlike innocence.
59, simple and simple, so it shows great beauty. As the China people say, "Kindness is like water, virtue carries things, loud and quiet, and elephants are invisible". What a pure and peaceful mind it is to hear and see God and his smiles and footsteps! Even god and his face can be seen clearly. What a big accident!
60. Children know the true meaning of the word "willing" best, so they will give up and win irresistibly, and enjoy the happiness of family, nature, innocence and heaven in "willing". They constantly create and destroy, and appreciate the mystery of life and death in creation and destruction. In fact, they didn't think about death at all, so death was afraid of them, so they hid far away and watched the children play games carefree. It tickles my heart and even makes me jealous. Death is a fierce and hungry wolf, but they are afraid of innocent and powerful children. Because there is no evil heart, just like a huge seamless dinosaur egg.
6 1, this baby is so beautiful. Although I have seen it a hundred times, it seems like the first time to see him again and again. I stood beside him when he slept, and I saw a thousand beautiful dreams hidden in his eyes; When he smiled, I stood by, obviously lowering my head, but I seemed to see a crescent moon shining out from behind a thin cloud; I stood by his cradle when he kicked off the thin towel that covered him. Pink, smooth and bright limbs are really like hibiscus out of water. It is not enough to describe his characteristics and temperament with "mud without dye, clear ripple without demon" I heard his child's voice, I appreciated his ever-changing posture and vividly captured a sacred fetus. Suddenly, I remembered a poem I once read: "It takes time to raise the grain god in October. Yang Qi was pure and Yin Qi was exhausted, and a fairy jumped out of the void. "
62. A child's heart is like clear water. On that day, light and clouds reflected in the water. He accepted it happily, boldly created a more beautiful scene than before, and then generously provided it. Therefore, when an adult gives him a gift, it's like God plucking a sensitive string. In an instant, cheerful music will be played, and the original shape and color will be amplified. Therefore, when you give him candy, his heart will smile like a flower with a sweet honey hidden in it.
63. Children are the easiest to communicate with. Young as they are, they are open-minded In his eyes and heart, all people are children of God, just as everything on the earth grows in sunshine and moonlight. He believes that everyone is equal, everything is equal, and things are equal. A world without suspicion and hatred is really beautiful.
In the eyes of adults, children play useless and meaningless games, and pragmatism has no place in children's hearts. We should not laugh at children's focus on doing those useless things, because they only seek cheerful, naive and beautiful dreams. So when we laugh at children, we also laugh at dreams. How greedy, ignorant, boring and cruel a dream-chasing pragmatist is.
65. When talking to God, people's voice can be heard by others, and the voice of God echoes in the hearts of the interlocutors. So at first glance, it sounds like talking to yourself, talking to yourself. Poet, some people say that he is crazy and mentally ill. Because God listens to himself and entertains himself, in fact, he is talking to God. A person who can talk to God will be highly valued by God. The more highly valued by God, the farther away he is from people. ...