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At Shantiniketan or the Abode of Peace which his father Debendranath Tagore established as a centre of meditation, Rabindranath founded a school which reminds us of forest hermitages where teachers and pupils sought after and attained human fulfilment by wise thinking, righteous living and earnest faith. There no life should be taken, no idol worshipped and no irreverent word spoken against any people's worship or duty. Though Hinduism is the background of all the activities in the school, the birthdays of great prophets, the Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, Nanak are celebrated.

Rabindranath loved India because of her ideals. He says: 'I love India but my India is an idea and not a geographical expression. Therefore I am not a patriot. I shall seek my compatriots all over the world.' Though Indian in inspiration, Tagore's work had a universal appeal. India has been known all these centuries for her dignity of soul, valour and piety, tolerance and hospitality, there were occasions when she was not loyal to them.

Rabindranath Tagore asks us to preserve the old attitude of keeping firm our own framework and receiving and adapting outer influences. 'It is ideal mendicancy to discard our own and beg for the foreign, while at the same time 'it is abjectness of poverty to dwarf ourselves by rejecting the foreign.' Rabindranath condemned India's imitation of the West. He called that India, 'the eternal rag-picker at other peoples' dust bins.' Imitation, he says, is 'like dressing our skeleton with another man's skin, giving rise to eternal feuds, between the skin and the bones at every movement.' India should cease to be in bondage to others, but feel free to accomplish her own important mission of getting the peoples of the world together. Unity is truth and division is evil. "Remember how India has ever kept alive her power of binding together. She has ever established some sort of harmony amidst all kinds of difficulties and conflicts and hence she has survived till now. I have full faith in that India. Even now that India is slowly building up a marvellous reconciliation of the old order with the new, may each of us consciously join that work, may we be never misled by dullness or revolt into resisting it."