{"id":1041,"date":"2021-07-12T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T08:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T08:41:39","slug":"i-wonder-if-i-know-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/i-wonder-if-i-know-him\/","title":{"rendered":"I wonder if I know him (Rabindranath Tagore)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/I_wonder_if_I_know_him_Rabindranath_Tagore.jpg\" alt=\"I wonder if I know him Rabindranath Tagore\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/I_wonder_if_I_know_him_Rabindranath_Tagore.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/I_wonder_if_I_know_him_Rabindranath_Tagore-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mi chiedo se lo conosco<br \/>\ncolui che parla con la mia voce,<br \/>\nche muove l\u2019esser mio,<br \/>\nil cui talento \u00e8 nei miei versi,<br \/>\nla cui melodia \u00e8 nelle mie canzoni<br \/>\nnella gioia e nel dolore.<\/p>\n<p>Pensavo che egli fosse dentro di me imprigionato,<br \/>\nnell\u2019alternarsi di lacrime e risa,<br \/>\nlavoro e gioco.<\/p>\n<p>Credevo ch\u2019egli fosse il mio vero s\u00e9<br \/>\ne che sarebbe scomparso con la mia morte.<br \/>\nMa perch\u00e9 allora inondato di gioia mi sento lui,<br \/>\nnel vedere e sfiorare la mia amata?<\/p>\n<p>Questo \u2018Io\u2019 al di l\u00e0 del s\u00e9 ho trovato<br \/>\nsulle sponde del mare lucente.<br \/>\nE ora so<br \/>\nche questo &#8216;Io&#8217; non \u00e8 imprigionato dentro i miei confini.<\/p>\n<p>Nel perdermi, lo trovo<br \/>\noltre i confini di tempo e spazio.<br \/>\nAttraverso le ere<br \/>\nimparo a conoscere il suo lucente s\u00e9<br \/>\nnella vita del cercatore,<br \/>\nnella voce del poeta.<\/p>\n<p>Dalle nuvole scure scende la pioggia.<br \/>\nMi siedo e penso:<br \/>\nattraverso tante forme, tanti nomi,<br \/>\ndiscendo, la soglia attraversando<br \/>\nd&#8217;innumerevoli nascite e morti.<\/p>\n<p>Il Supremo Indiviso, in s\u00e9 completo,<br \/>\nabbracciando passato e presente<br \/>\nnell&#8217;Uomo dimora.<br \/>\nDentro di Lui trover\u00f2 me stesso.<br \/>\nl\u2019\u2019Io\u2019 che giunge in ogni luogo.<\/p>\n<p>Rabindranath Tagore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I wonder if I know him<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>In whose speech is my voice,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>In whose movement is my being,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Whose skill is in my lines,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Whose melody is in my songs<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>In joy and sorrow.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I thought he was chained within me,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Contained by tears and laughter,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Work and play.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I thought he was my very self<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Coming to an end with my death.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Why then in a flood of joy do I feel him<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>In the sight and touch of my beloved?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>This I beyond self I found<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>On the shores of the shining sea.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Therefore I know<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>This&#8217;I&#8217; is not imprisoned within my bounds.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Losing myself, I find him<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Beyond the borders of time and space.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Through the Ages<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I come to know his Shining Self<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>In the Iife of the seeker,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>In the voice of the poet.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>From the dark clouds pour the rains.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I sit and think:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Bearing so many forms, so many names,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I come down, crossing the threshold<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Of countless births and deaths.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The Supreme undivided, complete in himself,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Embracing past and present,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dwells in Man.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Within Him I shall find myself &#8211;<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The I that reaches everywhere.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Rabindranath Tagore<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foto-pensieri","tag-rabindranath-tagore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}