Overview Of Ralf Waldo Emerson And Rabindranath Tagore

The worldliness and materiality is too much expended that humankind unable to rise beyond these evils. Ralf Waldo Emerson and Rabindranath Tagore illumined mankind to perceive the power and puissance of the inherent glory. Emerson and Tagore strove to seek the Eternal and the Infinite will erect the edifice of self- fulfillment, self-abnegation and self-surrender for the attainment of the universal consciousness. Emerson understood and adopted: a major part of his transcendentalism from Indian and German school of philosophy in which the central core was Puritanism, Platonism and monastic idealism. The philosophy of Kant influenced his main by his empirical understanding in place of theoretical reasoning.

Emerson’s main theme of nature

He remarks, “To find out the one is to possess the All”. The experience of a unifying vision is generally asserted by all the mystics of different ages and varied cultures. There is a common agreement among the religious mystics as regard the apprehension of a divine unity; there have been divergent approaches in the interpretation of the Nature as this unity. Some mystics assert the vision of an individual unity in which the distinction of subject and object is obliterated and what is achieved is an impersonal one.

Thus, there are a lot of similarities between both as elaborated in above lines about their theme and style and it shows the immense deepness of Indian mythology in their works. Both of them are highly influenced by Indian philosophy and their complete theme and style is moving all around Indian writings. There are Humanism, nature, soul, god, spirituality, universal oneness, simplicity, over-soul, man, beauty, and worship…..etc are the major theme of both of them of divinity.

Keywords – Emerson, Tagore, Self, God, Nature, Soul,

Transcendentalism is a “philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical”. Emerson was a learned and a man of extraordinary genius. The world classics played an important role in enriching his knowledge about the reality of life and the importance of nature. He perceived the divinity in nature. He reckoned that nature is the magnificent companion to man and his celestial abode. Emerson’s brilliance and ability is apparent in his writings. His intelligence and skill has established him as the major figure whom the critics reiterate to be a genius and an interesting author. Some critics claim him to be an imitator. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressure of society, and he disseminates his thoughts through dozens published essays more than 1500 public lectures across the United States.Self-Reliance, Over-Soul, Poems and Nature are remarkable work where Emerson remarks that man’s life is based on truth, non-violence, simplicity and