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‘Bharat Tirtha’ (‘Pilgrimage to India’) happens to be one of my most favourite poems. Right from my childhood I deeply appreciated and admired this poem. According to my poetic heart, this poem is indeed one of Tagore’s supremely beautiful, supremely soulful, supremely powerful and supremely fruitful poems.33
RTM 114. Sri Chinmoy made this comment and then read the song aloud in Bengali at the programme held at the United Nations on May 7th, 1979 (see footnote 1 above). It was at this programme that Sri Chinmoy sang ‘Bharater Rabi’ for the first time.↩
Sri Chinmoy, Rabindranath Tagore: the moon of Bengal’s Heart, Agni Press, 2011
