Jeevandevata

Not exactly Rabindranath Thakur's 'Jeebandevata' but along those lines--feelings that have developed over time..

The highest intelligence is to feel for other people. One must have an 'intelligent heart' as my friend, Rumki (many years back) used to say. Love and feeling for all forms of life. A keen tenderness. The holiness of things. The Vedic seers and later those of the Upanishads spoke of how Brahman inhered in everything--so, respect all forms of life and life expression.

It is this that Wordsworth speaks of in Tintern Abbey:

And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.'

Rabindranath says,

'ghashe ghashe pa phelecchi/boner pathae jete....nadi te mor rakta dharai legecche taar taan..;

Tai, Christ says, 'treat your neighbor as you would treat yourself'.

Vivekananda says, 'They only live who live for others'

Rabindranath again, 'era por ke apon kore/aponar e por.