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१२ कछ, ७ ४ांत्र - surma =mg - مصمسح مي - * I -a - and hallowed charms of the Himalayas, it is because a sense of duty compels him to obey the mandate of his physicians. FIE THE GOD-INTOXICATED MAN. Benedict Spinoza, the Dutch Pantheistic ! Philosopher, was ca lled by Novalis, “the God-intoxicated man.” You canonly read of Spinoza, but if we wish to see a God-intoxicated inan, you can assuredly see him in Maharshi Debendra Natli Tagore. You have no doubt come across men full of Sels, or full of Mammon, but here is verily a man who is full of God. You cannot spond an hour with him without strongly feeling that his soul and his mind are intoxicated with the wine of Divine love. There is every outward manifestation to convince you of the fact. radiant and rolling with emotion, in his coun You catch it unmistakably in his cycs, tenance, flushed yet serene, and in his enthusiastic gestures, as lie discourses on the Lord he adores and worships so devoutly, in spirit and in truth. Though not in the least putting his faith in the l'antheistic idea that all is God, the Maharshi the penetrating vision of a seer, God in all, as The bird singeth. and lie hears in its song the soul 5 y ح set's, with the life and soul of all that exists. enrapturing voice of his Beloved ; the flower bloom eth and he smells in its perfume, the fragrance of the immaculate purity of his 1)ivine Father ; the soft breeze bloweth, and he feels in its breath the loving and inerciful the shineth, and in its bright effulgence he finds touch of his ever kind Friend; Sum revealed the benign intluences of the l)ivine Light : the boundless sky stretcheth forth before kis beatified vision, and in its countless, stars, planets, and systems of worlds he realizes the sublimity of the Great Being who had been the Pole-Star to the majestic bark of his life in the occan of this world. As without him, so within him, as in the outer world of Nature, so in the inner world of his soul, Maharshi Debendra Nath perpetualy enjoys the presence and companionship of the the Supreme Spirit. Intoxicated in the highest sense, as he is, by the wine of l)ivine Love, lie never feels more at liome than when he discourses on the attributes of God, or communes with Him, or allows his soul to revel in the oceau of Brahmananda to or the joy of God that passeth all understanding. 會 HIS LEGACY TO THE NATION. The incomparable religious character of Debendra Nath Tagore is a rich legacy to the Indian nation. Happy are the people that can sufficiently realize the inestimable value of so matchless an inheritance. Christ’s legacy of his character and exaluple to the succeeding generations was scarcely more significant,grand Malı:arslı il)ebendra Natlı Tagore’s to the human race of these and the How of the nature work without detri and divine than is coining times. to make each sides of human ment to the other, how to be wordly and at the same time religious, how to reconcile the requirements of this life with those of that is to coine, is yet the grandest problem Debendra Nath Tagore has offered a practical solution of this problem in on the earth. his ox traordinary life in a manuer so promin ent as no man in these modern times of materialism and Mammon worship has done. l | e lias boen a mnii of thi' worll in tho best and truest sense, making himself as vastly useful in the field of worldly life as his capabilities and resources would allow, and at the samo time has been a religious IIe did not, like a lisindu Rishi of old, leave the world for man of the highest order. God, uor did he like a luodern nineteenth century worlding, relinquish God for the world. He has been, botli (Hodly and worldly, . without allowing his devotion to God to weaken his sense of wordly duties or his attention to the world to interfere with his religious and devotional exercises. Not only has he been a devotee, revelling in Divine contemplation and meditation, but he has also becu the leader of a ('hurch, the active missionary of a religion, an eminent social resormer, an able author, a wise landlord, a friend of education, a patron of benevolent and useful schemes and the responsible head of a large family. The grand lesson and momentous truth, that it is possible to be (iod intoxicated and at the same time to perform our worldly duties, that it is within the range of human capabilities to be equally true to our spiritual and temporary interests, is the legacy which Maharshi Debendra Nath Tagore bequeaths to us, and may we bo worthy of this rich heritage. _
