summary and explanation

1. Dr. J N Waghmare
LET ME NOT PRAY TO BE SHELTERED FROM
DANGERS BY TAGORE

2. RABINDRANATH TAGORE
• 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)
• sobriquets Gurudev
• a Bengali polymath- poet, writer, composer, philosopher
and painter
• . Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful
verse" of Gitanjali,
• he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the
first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[4]
• Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual
• He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal

3. LET ME NOT PRAY…..
• 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.
• Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield
but to my own strength.
• Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
• Grant that I may not be a coward,
feeling Your mercy in my success alone;
• But let me find the grasp of Your hand in my failure.