At the Paush Utsab on 31 October 1899, Rabindranath delivered a lecture on Upanishad Brahma. Satyendranath Tagore inaugurated the building of the Brahmabidyalaya, proposed by Balendranath, by opening the door and said in his inaugural speech that the Brahmabidyalaya was established there, in a solitary place, to gather Brahmabidya. (This building is now converted to the central Library of Vishwa Bharati.)
The joint business of Balendranath, Surendranath and Rabindranath ended up making major losses and
the loss had to be made up either by borrowing money from other sources or waiting till the loss was made up by the profit it could earn. But Rabindranath did not want to wait. He wanted to close immediately the chapter of his failure. His nature was to suppress defects by any means. He borrowed money from his friend Taraknath Palit and repaid the loan with the amount received by him from the lecture he delivered in America in 1917.
The lecture , on Upanishad Brahma, of Rabindranath delivered at Shantiniketan on Paush Utsab in 1899 was translated in English "The God of the Upanishad". Probably the translation was done by Satyendranath Tagore.
The joint business of Balendranath, Surendranath and Rabindranath ended up making major losses and
the loss had to be made up either by borrowing money from other sources or waiting till the loss was made up by the profit it could earn. But Rabindranath did not want to wait. He wanted to close immediately the chapter of his failure. His nature was to suppress defects by any means. He borrowed money from his friend Taraknath Palit and repaid the loan with the amount received by him from the lecture he delivered in America in 1917.
