How is ancient Hindu wisdom made meaningful in new contexts? What might draw a modern Bengali poet to the cadences and mystic meaning of the Gāyatrī mantra? Through what processes of modern interpretation and religio- political aspiration was the ritually centered daily prayer of the twice-born rendered into universal truth for the twentieth century? This article attempts to answer such questions by exploring the reimagining of the Gāyatrī’s meaning in the poetry and expository writings of Rabindranath Tagore. The goal is to suggest the deeply personal yet also expansive significance of the mantra for Rabindranath.

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重燃伽耶特里真言：泰戈尔和“我们的吠陀”

古老的印度教智慧如何在新环境中变得有意义？什么可能会吸引现代孟加拉诗人对 Gāyatrī 咒语的韵律和神秘意义感兴趣？通过现代解释和宗教政治愿望的哪些过程，以仪式为中心的双重出生的日常祈祷变成了 20 世纪的普遍真理？本文试图通过探索在泰戈尔的诗歌和说明性著作中重新构想伽耶特利的含义来回答这些问题。目标是为 Rabindranath 提出这句咒语的深刻个人意义和广泛意义。