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The Orchestration of the Arts — A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers pp 99–112Cite as

Orchestration of the Universe: Reflections on Tagore’s Creativity

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The uniquely metaphorical phrase “bipul visva-ganer banya”1 occurs in Tagore’s congregational address “Shona” (auditory perception).2 The deluge of magnanimous orchestration of the universe is so vital a metaphor that he can affirm in full faith: “This is neither a poetic utterance nor a rhetorical phrase; throughout space and time a continuous orchestration is being reverberated in grand fulness”3 (my translation).

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  1. Rabindranath Tagore, “Shona,” Santiniketan, Rabindra Rachanavali (henceforth abbreviated as RR followed by volume number), Birthday Centenary Edition, Govt. of West Bengal, Calcutta, 1961, vol. 12, p. 127.

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Ray, S. (2000). Orchestration of the Universe: Reflections on Tagore’s Creativity. In: Kronegger, M. (eds) The Orchestration of the Arts — A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers. Analecta Husserliana, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3411-0_8

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