Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti: Here Are 10 Rare Photos & Important Quotes Of Gurudev

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” (Photo: Getty Images)

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but that makes our life in harmony with all existence.” Students surround writer Rabindranath Tagore at his university, Visva Bharati, in Santineketan, West Bengal, 1929. (Photo by E. O. Hoppe/Getty Images)

“The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.” Circa 1925: Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore. (Photo by Martin Vos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.” A portrait of Rabindranath Tagore taken in 1930. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” Helen Keller meets Tagore for a photo opportunity in New York in 1930. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” Rabindranath Tagore visiting Einstein (right) in Caputh, on the left: the wife of Einstein Elsa and his daughter Margot - 14.07.1930. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Tagore With MK Gandhi in Santiniketan - 18.02.1940 (Photo by Rühe/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

“Be not ashamed, my brothers, to stand before the proud and the powerful With your white robe of simpleness. Let your crown be of humility, your freedom the freedom of the soul. Build God's throne daily upon the ample bareness of your poverty And know that what is huge is not great and pride is not everlasting.” Rabindranath Tagore with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1940. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, circa 1935. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” Rabindranath Tagore reading a book in the 1930s. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)