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Today’s Santiniketan, the main campus of Visva-Bharati University, was once a vast barren land. Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, during one of his numerous travels, had selected this lonely land as the suitable place for his meditation as well as a peaceful resort, just two miles away from the small town of Bolpur. He built his dwelling house there, which was afterwards named Santiniketan, that is, the abode of peace. The place-name is derived from the name of Maharshi’s building Santiniketan.
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Tagore used this metaphor about himself in his Jiban-Smriti (Reminiscences), Rabindra Rachanavali (collection of Tagore’s works, henceforth abbreviated as RR), Vol. 10 (Tagore’s Birth Centenary Publication, Govt. of West Bengal, 1961), p. 42.
Visva-Bharati, RR, Vol. 11, p. 723.
Preceded by the Sanskrit version, this is printed on the very first page of each issue of the Visva-Bharati Quarterly.
Rabindranath Tagore, ‘The Problem of Evil’, Sadhana (lectures delivered at Harvard University), 1913 (Macmillan Indian Edition, 1988), pp. 37–54.
Suklayajurveda, 36.3.
Ibid., 37.20, 30.3, 16.41, rearranged and compiled by Tagore for daily recitation at Santiniketan.
Svetasvatara Upanishad, 2.17.
Ibid., 6.7–9, 4.17. For the purpose of singing Tagore rearranged four slokas (verses) in this order.
Rigveda, 7.89, 2–4.
Rabindranath Tagore, “My School”, Personality (Macmillan 1917); (Macmillan Pocket Tagore Edition, 1985), pp. 136–137.
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Ray, S. (1997). Visva-Bharati Santiniketan: Outcome and Outgrowth of Tagore’s Creative Passion. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Passion for Place Book II. Analecta Husserliana, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2549-1_17
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