Devotion is dedication of the self to the All Serene. To Rabindranath Tagore, it
is more than mere dedication. It is a vrata to be in perfect unison with the
Vratapati, the Lord of askance in sincerity, purity and poignance. To be
christened with the spirituality of Tagore in the most intrinsic and poignant
pattern is to muse and re-muse his devotional songs, and in doing so, one cannot
but discover within oneself the lotus-land of spiritual excellence. Indeed,
somewhere in the heartland of everyone lurks the unending beckoning of the All
Beautiful. Here are a hundred devotional songs of Rabindranath representing
prayer and worship with diverse