Where the Mind is Without Fear

Truth is as wide and broad as the sea and skies. Tagore implores for us in this poem for our minds to be led into ever widening thought and action "by Thee" his Heavenly Father. He's not saying truth is relative without important distinctions. He's saying instead that if we are unafraid to be led so that our 'striving stretches toward perfection,' knowledge is free. The 'narrow domestic walls' he refers to in this poem are those prejudices, biases and fears that self-censor us from the endless sea of truth that otherwise would be available to us. Along with being narrowly constricted in thought by 'my-truth relativism', modern society's knowledge is also unfortunately limited by the natural sciences which defines reality as material things that our measurable. Instead of asking us to hold our head high into the free ever widening blue sky, keeping 'the clear stream of reason' alive from 'the depths of truth,' they have directed our heads to be buried under the weights and scales of 'dead habit.' To help you see the heavenly freedom Tagore refers and asks his country to discover, listen to the poem 'There are Two Kinds of Intelligences.' I have the link at the end of this video for you to view.