# XXXV explained — Gitanjali

> Chapter companion for Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore.

## What happens

The poet envisions an ideal world of freedom, knowledge, truth, and reason, and prays for his country to awaken into that heaven of freedom guided by the divine.

## Themes in this chapter

### Freedom and Renunciation

The poem is a prayer for a heaven of freedom, where the mind is fearless, knowledge is free, and narrow divisions are overcome.

### Spiritual Journey and Self-Realization

The call for the mind to be led by the divine into ever-widening thought and action reflects a spiritual quest for higher consciousness.

## Character check-ins

### The Poet

The speaker who prays for his country's awakening into freedom.

### The Divine

Addressed as 'thee' and 'my Father,' the guiding force toward freedom.

## Key lines

> Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

In a place where people are fearless and dignified, where education is accessible to all, and where society is not divided by petty boundaries.

_The poet describes an ideal society free from fear, ignorance, and division._

> Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

May my country awaken into that perfect state of liberty, guided by the divine.

_A prayer for national awakening into true freedom under divine guidance._

## Links

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