''The Religion of Man'' is a 1931 compilation of lectures by

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

, edited by him and drawn largely from his

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given at

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in May 1930.''The Religion of Man'', preface by Rabindranath Tagore A

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playwright and poet of global renown, Tagore deals with largely universal themes of God, divine experience, illumination, and spirituality. A brief conversation between him and

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, "Note on the Nature of Reality", is included as an appendix. Another compilation of three lectures on roughly the same set of subjects, delivered in 1933 as his Kamala Lectures at the

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, was published in Bengali under the same name ( bn, মানুষের ধর্ম্ম).k1

Contents of the Hibbert Lectures

*Preface *I. Man's Universe *II. The Creative Spirit *III. The Surplus In Man *IV. Spiritual Union *V. The Prophet *VI. The Vision *VII. The Man of My Heart *VIII. The Music Maker *IX. The Artist *X. Man's Nature *XI. The Meeting *XII. The Teacher *XIII. Spiritual Freedom *XIV. The Four Stages Of Life *XV. Conclusion Appendix: *I. The Baul Singers of Bengal *II. Note on the Nature of Reality *III. Dadu and the Mystery of Form *IV. Night and Morning IndexTagore, Rabindranath, The Religion of Man (1931, The MacMillan Company), contents page

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