Hinduism: Details about 'Debendranath Tagore'
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Debendranath Tagore (Bangla:দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Debendronath Ţhakur)(May 15, 1817 - January 19, 1905) was a Bengali philosopher from current-day West Bengal, in India. He was born in Calcutta, India. His father, Dwarkanath Tagore was a rich and famous Bengali landlord. Debendranath was an active Brahmo, and was against sati, idol worship and the concept of multiple gods. He came to the Brahmo Samaj ten years after the death of it's founder, Raja Ram Mohan Roy. It had fallen away from its original practices put forth in its trust deed, such as the renunciation of all idols; however, Tagore brought back the importance of this deed. However, when the Vedanta of Ram Mohan Roy was attacked by a Presbyterian minister, Duff, Tagore abandoned it in favor of direct contact with the divine. His experiences were fleeting contact, and this love in separation, known in Hindu poetry as mullai, caused him to strive to regain the bliss of that contact. When Keshub Chunder Sen rose to power in the Brahmo Samaj, it caused a split between Sen's followers and Tagore's followers, which started the downfall of the Samaj as the leading force in modern Hindu thought. Rabindranath Tagore was his son.
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