“ The soul is not as distinct as success, and so you only lose your soul if you seek it in your success. ”
Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World (1916). copy citation
| Author | Rabindranath Tagore |
|---|---|
| Source | The Home and the World |
| Topic | success soul |
| Date | 1916 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Surendranath Tagore |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7166/pg7166-images.html |
Context
“"Your words are too vague."
"That I cannot help," Nikhil replied. "A machine is distinct enough, but not so life. If to gain distinctness you try to know life as a machine, then such mere distinctness cannot stand for truth. The soul is not as distinct as success, and so you only lose your soul if you seek it in your success."
"Where, then, is this wonderful soul?"
"Where it knows itself in the infinite and transcends its success."
"But how does all this apply to our work for the country?"
"It is the same thing. Where our country makes itself the final object, it gains success at the cost of the soul.”
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