Religious Poem
Heaven of Freedom
or
Where the Mind is Without
Fear
by Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore was a patriot and a religious man.
He was a man of nature, music and poetry and he awakened the imagination of his
pupils to the world of beauty, goodness and wide sympathy.
‘Heaven of freedom’ / ‘Where the mind
is without fear’ is both patriotic and religious song. It is the 35th song of
Gitanjali. The poet has expressed a picture of an ideal India in this poem.
Heaven of Freedom
or
Where the Mind is Without
Fear
Where the mind is
without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is
free;
Where the world
has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come
out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless
striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear
stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead
habit;
Where the mind is
led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.
