Where The Mind Is Without Fear 🙂

Where the mind is without fear - Rabindra nath Tagore ji 🙏🏻

Where the mind is without fear 😇 and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world 🌎 hasn't been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand ⏳ of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever widening thought and action -

Into that heaven of freedom, My Father, let my country awake.

Meaning 

Where the Mind is Without Fear is a prayer 🙏🏻 to a universal God or Superior power. The theme of the poem can be found in its lines, which contain a prayer or hope for a bright future.

While this poem is a hopeful prayer 🙏🏻 for the future of India 🇮🇳

It is also a subtle critique of the British 💂🏻 rule in India.

Hope aside, freedom 🙂 is another big theme of this poem. However, for Rabindra nath Tagore ji, freedom was more than merely political.

The poet looks forward to an awakening into a heaven of spiritual freedom - freedom of thought, belief, speech, practice, and behaviour.