as though she wished to remain forever dreaming in the calm of the entranced sleeper. And she stayed in that state, not keeping pace with her husband, until there appeared in the land of Bengal the principle of the national renaissance and the boycott of foreign goods; its idea coursed with the blood in her veins, and she left the veil that had separated her from man, and felt that she was no longer the fenced-in woman, the Raja's wife only, but the representative of all the women of Bengal, speaking in their name while they took her for their example. "Tagore wished to portray for us, in Bimala, a free wife, unfettered in feeling, in thought, and in reflection: if a man makes her his equal, he gains from her all tenderness; and if he tyrannizes over her, his lot is nothing but failure" — for woman is feeling before all else, and feeling is not wrested by force but coaxed step by step, or taken freely.
The great poet of India himself likewise saw in Eve an image of living beauty and a pure wellspring of inspiration. And so he surrendered to love, at peace.
"Love alone I await, to surrender to his arms. That is why the hour has grown late, and great has been my neglect."
"Out of their laws and statutes they wove fetters for me, but I escape them always, for I await nothing but love, to surrender to his arms.
They blamed me and reproached my negligence, and no doubt in their reproach they are right.
The markets have closed, the errands are all done, and those who came seeking me have gone back disappointed. Love alone I await, to surrender to his arms."
Woman caressed his heart
with her magical fingertips and made the spring of music and poetry gush forth from him.
Yet woman was not, for him, an end in herself, but a means whose splendor he drew upon in order to create. That is with respect to her being the source of artistic inspiration. As for her social function, he saw her as man's equal,
who must enjoy all her rights and develop all her gifts in an atmosphere of freedom and security.
Jamil Jabr A chapter from the book "Tagore"
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