![]() ![]() Emmanuel (this means the “indwelling God” and was Sunyas’ favorite Western name for himself) played a Beethoven quartet for Tagore on an old gramophone Tagore was so impressed with the quality of Emmanuel’s silence (lack of willfulness and ego desires) that he invited him “to come to India to teach silence.” But how can you teach something except by being It? Being It he was, and his arrival in India in 1930-in his 40 th year-marked the beginning of a new phase in his life’s drama. While he was working on the gardens of Dartington Hall in Devonshire, Ragindranath Tagore, the Indian poet, came to speak. He began an apprenticeship in horticulture, and eventually moved to England where he became “a simple gardener.”Īs a gardener, he worked from 6 in the morning to 6 in the evening in such big estates as Forty Hall, Sunbury Court, Hampton Court, and Dartington Hall. As he was only educated up to the 8 th grade, he would often joke that he had escaped “ headucation.” During his childhood, a big shock occurred when he was 14 and the family farm was sold to strangers who had no respect for the land. At the time of his birth, his two sisters were 12 and 14 years old. Sunyata was born on a small Danish farm in 1890 with the name of Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorenson. ![]()
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