Synthesis of extremes
What Rabindranath actually wanted in his tireless and life-long works was a true and perfect synthesis between enjoyment and renunciation in our life of manifold activities. According to him, we can never cut asunder all the ties of the world. We can, however, exceed them. And that is possible only if we sincerely admit their reality and pass through them.
Sri Chinmoy, Mother India's Lighthouse: India's spiritual leaders, Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1971