The all pervasive presence of God is suggested through a host of images taken from the common, familiar things of life. The Almighty is the lover and the poet in the guise of bride desires to consume herself in the act of union in the loneliness and darkness. Sometimes He is a stranger coming to the poet's house, Sometimes he is a "thirsty traveller" of lyric no 54. It is His call which the poet hears in the myriad voices of Nature. Sometimes He comes with the sweet perfume of the lotus and at other times He plays on His harp. He is to be seen in the myriad forms of Nature, in the heavens or on the earth. The love of God comes to the earth in the disguise of golden light "that dances upon the leaves, clouds and the sky." He is all pervasive. His mysticism is thus counterbalanced and kept in check by intense humanism. Nor he is least inclined towards asceticism. He doesn't reject sense experience but makes it a medium of spiritual experience. He doesn't advocate a dissociation from everyday life but enjoys the joy of living. He does not completely distrust reason and of perception. Still Tagore's mysticism is slightly different from the former one. A lot of mystic writers undoubtedly influenced Tagore including Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran and to some extent, Sri Aurobindo. This mysticism believes in renunciation, detachment from worldly affairs and in ascetism. All mystics seeks to withdraw themselves from the world of appearance and ally themselves with the inner world. Mysticism is not a rationally explainable concept. In a certain sense mysticism is at odds with realism and common-sense.
The mystic seeks to establish an immediate and intuitive relationship with the inner, ultimate reality.
A mystic believes that the ordinary world of sense perception is not real and that, behind this visible world there is a more real world that can be apprehended spiritually and not through the medium of the senses. The Indian philosophy expresses that mysticism is that exalted stage where the human soul is in direct communion with God.
The major theme in Gitanjali is the theme of mysticism which brings several other-themes in the reflection.
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