"Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you..."
Meher Mount
Your Friday photo…
The beauty of sunlight on Baba’s Walkway at Meher Mount is captured by guest caretaker and photographer Juan Mendez. This flagstone pathway is one of the few remaining artifacts from Avatar Meher Baba’s 1956 day at Meher Mount.
The poem by Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, was suggested by Margaret Magnus.
“Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are
Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words
Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you
They who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), also known by his pseudonym Bhanusimha or Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
A man of prodigious literary and artistic accomplishments, Tagore played a leading role in Indian cultural renaissance and came to be recognized, along with Mohandas Gandhi, as one of the architects of modern India.
Gitanjali is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings.
Gitanjali was written shortly after the deaths of Tagore’s wife, his two daughters, his youngest son, and his father. But as his son Rathindranath noted, “He remained calm and his inward peace was not disturbed by any calamity however painful. Some superhuman sakti [force] gave him the power to resist and rise above misfortunes of the most painful nature.”
Gitanjali was his inner search for peace and a reaffirmation of his faith in his Jivan devata — described by Tagore as the “Lord of Life” symbolizing the guiding Divine presence in human existence.
Sources
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali. He translated the poems into English himself. https://www.consolatio.com/
”Rabindranath Tagore,” Poetry Foundation, accessed September 18, 2025.