Death Conciousness In Rabindranath Tagore's Literature

Death Conciousness In Rabindranath Tagore’s Play Dākghar-A Philosophical Study

Bipasha Das, Research Scholar

Dept. of Sanskrit, Pali & Prakrit

Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan [e-mail]

Abstract:

Rabindranath Tagore’s play Dākghar is a very beautiful literary creation which is based on a story about a boy Amal and his Death. The characters are rounds around the Amal’s physical condition and anxiousness about Amal’s Death. Everybody—the characters are loved the boy.They were very affectionate on him. Amal heard about a Dākghar on that village and he awaited for a letter which The King will send for him. But on that letter there was Amal’s Death news. At last the herald comes and made Amal felt that he was free from the

But he was a novelist, dramatist, musician, story- writer and philosopher also. His pen flowed creativity in an almost endless sequence. Rabindranath’s exuberance in every way of creation was without hindrance. His family background had a great influence on him as a genius. As a thinker his mind was an Eastern product, and he championed the cause of oriental literature.

The writings of Rabindranath spread the branches all wide. He was successful in every way of his writing to give a message to the readers. There is no denying fact that at certain moments the poet has been seized by the supreme glory of the Absolute. Actuated by such feelings, he degrades the finites of the world to the rank of mere elements whole. His only mission was to be lost in the Absolute2. Death is reflected in his many writings.

We can see in his play ‘Bisarjan’-- the ultimate destination of Jaysingha was on the lap of Death. In the drama ‘ Muktadh̄ārā,’ also prince Abhijit was flowed away in the stream of water to save the people of Shibatarai. The drama Naṭī Pujā also Naṭī Śrīmatī took the destiny in the lap of death. Like all these drama and in many other literary creations Rabindranath was influenced by the concept of

If that love were deceived in death, then the canker of this deceit would eat into all things, and the stars would shrivel and grow black.

In his own quest for the meaning of death, Tagore rarely succumbed to the temptation of denying its dread by imagining it, for instance in the following poem, as a longed-for bridegroom, an atypical lapse into thanatophilia that transforms dying into a dramatic and celebratory occasion.

So it was the concept and thought of Rabindranath. He knows about this unchangeable destiny of men. Our attempt to do analysis the death consciousness of the play Dākghar by Rabindranath Tagore is an appropriate example for doing this analysis.

Bengali play Dākghar was written by Rabindranath Tagore and it is translated in Sanskrit by Dhyanesh Narayan Chakrabarti. Dhyanesh Narayan Chakrabarti was a Professor of Rabindrabharati University. He has so many literary contributions to the Sanskrit world. Dhyanesh Narayan may be could not do properly and line by line translation of Dākghar. But his efficiency is remarkable in this context. These Sanskrit translations is a wealth for Sanskrit