Mulj Raj Anand On Tagore In The Golden Breath (Ii) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Is he a poet, is he a philosopher
Or a poet-philosopher?
A Vaishanava, Shakta or Shaiva,
Who was he?
A nationalist, poet or humanist
Or all in one?
Who was he?
A day-dreamer
Or an imaginative being?
A poet full of
Vedism, Upanishadism and Puranism?
Poetry born of sadhna or yoga,
Tantric purgation?
Poetry meditative
Or of the contemplative order?
A bhakti poet, a mystic,
A spiritualist and a humanist
Of the first order,
An Orientalist, an Indologist
And a Sanskritist,
What was he?
A poet of the Universal Man,
The Universal Soul,
Heart and Mind,
Self and Spirit.