The Bauls of Bengal

Tagore traced his regard for the Bauls to a song he heard from a Baul beggar after leaving his father's church. In his 1930 Oxford Hibbert Lectures, printed in 1931, they became the chapter 'The Man of my Heart'.

Rabindranath Tagore, The Religion of Man (1931), Note and ch. 7, 'The Man of my Heart', pp. 68-69

Wandering singer-mystics of Bengal whose songs carry an esoteric, body-centred teaching in veiled language.

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Rabindranath Tagore, The Religion of Man, 1931, ch. 7, 'The Man of my Heart', pp. 68-71Tagore's report of the Baul reading (divine in Man, not temple, mosque or scripture; songs their only worship) and that he first heard a Baul beggar's song after leaving his father's church.
an intense yearning of the heart for the divine which is in Man and not in the temple