Religion of Man

                                                     

                                                             " Diviinilzation of Man "

    " Humanisation of God  "

Rabindranath Tagore , a cultural of Bengal was  one of the greatest thinkers  and greatest poets  of human history . He as a Bengali poet , philosopher, visual artist , playwright , novelist and composer , has  reshaped Bengali literature and music .

" The Religion of Man ", was based on the Hibert Lectures , delivered by Rabindranath Tagore, at Manchester college Oxford . Tagore sets forth a new religion , i.e.," Religion of Man "  which differs radically from most organised religions, in the way it designs God . He traces the growth of the idea of      God from primitive notions to universality . Today , as he says , all the barriers are down and god of humanity has arrived at the gates of the ruined temples of the tribe.

 The Religion of Man differs radically from most organised religions, in the way it defines God : God is defined as the Universal Spirit , the Spirit of Life , the Eternal Spirit of human unity beyond our direct knowledge, the Super Soul the permeates all moving things , the Supreme Person ,Man the Eternal.This God dwells not in the heavens but in the heart of every human being . Furthermore , we can each increase our power of realisation through "discplined striving " - through our participation in nature , literature , arts, legends ,symbols , and ceremonials and through the remembrance of heroic souls who have personified this truth in the lives. 

Tagore says , there is a physiological process in the progress of life's evolution seems to have reached it finality in man ." It's not about to have something but to be something ". He calls Zarathustra , the great Persian prophet ,who speritualized the meaning of sacrifice was the first to address his wounds to humanity , regardless of distance of space or time. 

He acknowledges that religion can't give a specific information of the world, but,tather it seems to be a  larger sense of oneness of totality. On the surface of our beam , we have the ever changing faces of individual selfie. But, in depth there dwells the eternal spirit of human unity beyond our direct knowledge.

 He also expresses that religion is linked to any community . rather it is the source of all the energies that surmount all the barriers that limit the man and thereby reveal the God cannot be limited to any geological inscriptions . The evolutionary process has as  its ultimate goal , not the attainment of Heaven , but the releasee of each individual 's consciousness from the illusory bond of the separate self and the realisation of the spiritual unity of all human beings . Truth in the Religion of Man is not which was revealed only to chosen few in the distant past, neither it is reached through the analytical process , rather it is revealed to every person every day , if and but ,we listen it . He expressed that , Religion of Man came to him though his personal experience , and his intimacy with Nature that he had from early childhood. .and also through the formative experience with the songs of the wandering village singers ,belonging to a particular sect of Bengal , called Bauls .Intrestingly, this particular sect doesn't have any scripture , temple, images , yet they expressed their views in & as  songs expressing that heart of the divine which is in Man . 

The depth in Tagore 's views are hard to fathomed. Tagore explores the concept of religion not merely as a philosphical subject, but as a thing of experience.