Many of Tagore’s poems are about the beauties of nature. The speaker in the poems notices the wonders of the natural world that others may overlook, such as bees buzzing beyond his window. He sees nature as a window into the divine, and when he witnesses its beauty, it is a way to observe and meditate on the wonders and attraction of the divine presence. In his poems, he advocates pausing time and letting the worldly cares of life wait so that one can appreciate what is lasting and divine in the natural world.

In one of his songs, Tagore writes about a child who is weighed down by his robe and jewels. He says that the child feels these adornments as only weight, and he implores the child’s mother to remove them so that the child can enter the common world. Tagore writes about the glories of dust, a symbol of common life. In another song, he writes that one cannot find God in a dark, isolated temple. Instead, one must enter into life and surround oneself with the world. This is the way one experiences the divine.

The narrator describes his love and adoration of God in several ways throughout the songs. In one song, he likens his love for God to that of a woman who keeps herself away from men and who refuses to part her veil. She dedicates herself only to God. This is the way Tagore feels about God, as he has saved his heart for God. He often writes about the way he feels God all around him, in the midst of his everyday life. However, he feels ashamed by his failures and feels unworthy of approaching God. He wants to surrender himself to God and feels that approaching the divine will provide him with a sense of freedom from the travails of everyday life.