Tagore believed that all existences constitute the one organism of the entire cosmos, emitting love

as the highest manifestation of its vital energy and having as its soul the center of the spiritual
galaxy. The world so far talks only about the religion of God, but Tagore always talked of the religion
of man. It is a religion of feeling through ecstatic experience, which represents opinion in its most
intense and living stage, offering a far better solution to the ills of life than philosophy and
metaphysics. Love of God is a sympathetic and synthetic response. The finite being is as much a
requirement for God as God for the finite being. The soul of the lotus goes on blossoming for ages
in which I am bound, as though without escape. There is no end to the opening of its petals, and the
honey in it has such sweetness that thou, like an enchanted being, canst never desert it; and
therefore thou art bound, and I am, and salvation is nowhere.