For the translation to be true as well as spontaneous, the poem has to come alive in the translator’s mind. Through long association it must have become part of him, an extension of his consciousness. The continued impact of the poem would finally lead him to create a dream-image of it. It is as much an intuitive as an intellectual process. The translator has tried to pay a minute fraction of a life-long debt to a supreme poet whose true stature must remain unknown to the world because he happened to write mainly in Bengali. Father Pierre Fallon said that he would have never realized the greatness of Tagore’s poetry if he had not learned Bengali. The translator can only say that he has put everything he has into the work.