The Water is silent
The fish in the water is silent,
the animals on the earth is noisy,
the bird in the air is singing.
But man has in him the silence of the sea,
the noise of the earth
and the music of the air.
The meaning of our self
is not to be found in its separateness from God and others,
but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga,
of union.
The newer people,
of this modern age,
are more eager to amass than
to realize.
- Tagore
Links
Gitanjaliby Tagore
Poems on Water
The Waterfall