Heaven of Freedom

I came across this poem in Kishore Biyani's Retail book "IT happens only in India" . I somehow got hooked onto it and googled it out. Tagore has woven the words very beautifully, it is his vision for the nation. We have the preamble which is about how the country should be but it is no where closer to Tagore's vision.

One of my colleague's in office came to know about my liking for this poem and mentioned that i am looking at Utopia. Utopia is something ideal and anything ideal is kind of impractical (the way i see it), but Tagore's vision for the country i dont think it is impractical, it is something that is doable.

What i feel is we do not have to look at country here, we can replace country here with the company that we work for. Is it Utopia? Is Utopia what we need? Why is our company the way it is? Can we do something about it? Can we be the harbingers of change?

The poem is as follows:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls;
Where the words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening
thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.

-Tagore