Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Rabindranath again Santiniketan

Rabindranath had taken leave from his busy schedule due to his illness.But he could not stop going to temple for meditation on every Wednesday.He simply repeated the speech delivered on !st Baisakh.  
" If the true existence of the soul be revealed, then to discover its infinite strength inherent in it  will easily be exposed. Still if you want to know its real existence, you must remove its veil. And to do that you are to  suppress your desire and sacrifice your own interest.. So long we are not sure of its reality removing obstacles, it appears very difficult, but if we can overcome, we find enormous pleasure in it."
The summer vacation of the school was near at hand.  But it was he who had to think of its future development. Bomanji had donated Rs. 5000/- for opening a technical department  in the school. Some money had also been collected from other sources. But there was no appreciable progress. So he wrote to the ex-teacher Bankim Chandra Roy, just returned from America,   on 4 Baisakh ; " Some arrangements have been made here to open a Technical section in our school - we got a machine also, now we require a machine-man and an instructor. A person named Pro- was appointed of National College - but his not honest, he has to discontinue. We are want of electricity for this reason. It will be better if you come in a vacation and give us some advice." 
Some arrangements were done - that was published in Asarh-issue of Santiniketan It was to presume that electric current would be available after the vacation and the technical section would be started slowly.
Waters was now being raised from well with the help of wind-mill - this was informed in Jaistha-issue. There was also an isertion that Gurudev was gifted with a printing machine by the residents of Lincln while he visited America.. All the printing materials of the school and also the lyrc-books were being printed with this machine. Two boys of our Asram was taking lesson. A student from the school of Santals had been sent to Calcutta for being equipped in binding.
Two books of lyrics had already been published, .