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− | [[Work is Worship]] | + | [[Plan of work of worship.odt]] |
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− | WORK IS WORSHIP
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− | INTRODUCTION
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− | Poet Ravindranath Tagore is a poet,philosopher,and teacher. He wrote poetry,drama and fiction in the Bengali language and was also a celebrated artist and musician.
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− | He won the noble prize for literature in 1913 after the publication of 'Digitalizing English,a volume of spiritual poetry. In 1919 he established at Shantiniketan a university for promoting cultural co-operation between the east and the west and named it Vishwa-Bharathi.
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− | Quotations emphasizes importance of work or Karmayoag
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− | 1] work before you play
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− | 2] work is food for noble mind
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− | 3] There is no shortcut to hard work
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− | 4] work without love is slavery.by M.Teresa
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− | New words
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− | Chant-say a prayer in a singing voice
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− | Till(v)-prepare and use land for growing crops
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− | Garment-dress
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− | Deliverance-final relase from rebirth
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− | Bead-a small round ball of wood
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− | WORK IS WORSHIP
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− | Leave this chanting and singing and
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− | telling of beads!Whom dost thou
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− | worship in this lonely dark corner of a | |
− | temple with doors all shut? Open
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− | thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee
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− | He is there the tiller is tilling
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− | the hard ground and where the path-maker
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− | is breaking stones. He is with them
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− | in sun and shower,and his
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− | garment is covered with dust. Put off
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− | thy holy mantle and even like him come
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− | down on the dusty soil!
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− | Deliverance? Where is this deliverance
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− | to be found? Our master himself
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− | has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of
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− | creation; he is bound with us all forever.
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− | Come out of thy meditations and
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− | leave aside thy flowers and incense!
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− | What harm is there if thy clothes
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− | become tattered and stained?Meet
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− | him and stand by him in toil and in
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− | sweat of thy brow.
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− | THEME OF THE POEM
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− | Karmayoga(socially productive and useful work)alone will help man achieve liberation from rebirth
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− | Best line of the poem which I liked most
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− | ''Put off the thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!'''''
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− | SUGGGESTED BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING
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− | 1]Vachana's of lord Basavanna
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− | 2]Vachana's of Sarvajnana
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− | 3]Vachana's of Allam Prabhu and Akka mahadevi
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− | seven deadly sins
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− | wealth without work
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− | pleasure without conscience
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− | science without humanity
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− | knowledge without character
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− | politics without principle
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− | commerce without morality
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− | worship without sacrifice.
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− | Mahatma Gandhi
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