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<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none"><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_m398d4bea.jpg" NAME="graphics3" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=240 HEIGHT=200 BORDER=0><FONT SIZE=6 STYLE="font-size: 22pt"><I> <FONT SIZE=5 STYLE="font-size: 20pt">WORK
 
IS WORSHIP</FONT></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=5><I><U><B>INTRODUCTION</B></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><FONT SIZE=5><U>Poet</U></FONT>;<FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">R</FONT>avindranath
 
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.</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><U>He won
 
the<B> noble prize</B> for the literature in </U></I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><U><B>1913</B></U></SPAN><U><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">
 
</SPAN><I>after the publication of 'Digitalizing English,a volume of
 
spiritual poetry. In <B>1919 </B>he established at <B>Shantiniketan</B>
 
a university for promoting cultural co-operation between the east and
 
the west and named it <B>Vishwa-Bharathi</B></I></U></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><I><U>Quotations
 
emphasizes importance of work or Karmayoag</U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>1]'<B>'work
 
before you play''</B></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_413a2cba.jpg" NAME="graphics4" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=138 HEIGHT=120 BORDER=0><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>2]
 
''work is food for noble mind''</B></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><U><B>3]
 
''There is no shortcut to hard work''</B></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><U><B>4]work
 
without love is slavery.by M.Teresa</B></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=5><I><U><FONT SIZE=5 STYLE="font-size: 20pt">New
 
words</FONT>;<B>Chan</B>t-<FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">say a
 
prayer in a singing voice</FONT></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=5><I><U><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt"><B>Till(v)</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">-prepare
 
and use land for growing crops</FONT></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=5><I><U><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt"><B>Garment</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">-dress</FONT></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=5><I><U><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt"><B>Deliverance</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">-final
 
relase from rebirth</FONT></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=5><I><U><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt"><B>Bead-</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">a
 
small round ball of wood</FONT></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=5><I><U><B>WORK
 
IS WORSHIP</B></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_5859e41.jpg" NAME="graphics5" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=266 HEIGHT=184 BORDER=0><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>Leave this<B>
 
chanting</B> and <B>singing</B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"> and</SPAN></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">telling
 
of</SPAN><B> beads!</B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Whom dost
 
th</SPAN>ou</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>worship in
 
this lonely dark corner of a</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>temple
 
with doors all shut? Open</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>thine eyes
 
and see thy God is not before thee</I></FONT></P>
 
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</P>
 
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</P>
 
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</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>He is
 
there the<B> tiller</B> is tilling</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_mf22972b.jpg" NAME="graphics12" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=276 HEIGHT=201 BORDER=0><FONT SIZE=4><I>the
 
hard ground and where the<B> path-maker</B></I></FONT></P>
 
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</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>is
 
breaking stones. He is with them</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>in sun and
 
shower,and his</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>garment is
 
covered with dust. <B>Put off</B></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>thy holy
 
mantle and even like him come</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_3169dad5.jpg" NAME="graphics14" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=299 HEIGHT=202 BORDER=0><FONT SIZE=4><I>down
 
on the dusty soil!</I></FONT></P>
 
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</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Deliverance?</B>
 
Where is this deliverance</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_m40cb5ff6.jpg" NAME="graphics10" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=222 HEIGHT=194 BORDER=0><FONT SIZE=4><I>to
 
be found? Our master himself</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>has
 
joyfully taken upon him the bonds of</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>creation;
 
he is bound with us all forever.</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>Come out
 
of thy <B>meditations</B> and</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>leave
 
aside thy<B> flowers</B> and <B>incense!</B></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>What harm
 
is there if thy clothes </I></FONT>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>become<B>
 
tattered</B> and <B>stained</B>?Meet</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>him and
 
stand by him in toil and in </I></FONT>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_746abf11.jpg" NAME="graphics15" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=251 HEIGHT=201 BORDER=0><IMG SRC="plan%20of%20work%20of%20worship_html_m5de8f098.jpg" NAME="graphics16" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=236 HEIGHT=179 BORDER=0><FONT SIZE=4><I>sweat
 
of thy brow. </I></FONT>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><U><B>THEME
 
OF THE POEM</B></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>Karmayoga</B>(socially
 
productive and useful work)alone will help man achieve liberation
 
from rebirth</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><I><U><B>Best
 
line of the poem which I liked most</B></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>''Put off
 
the thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!''</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I><U><B>SUGGGESTED
 
BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING</B></U></I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>1]Vachana's
 
of lord Basavanna</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>2]Vachana's
 
of Sarvajnana</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>3]Vachana's
 
of Allam Prabhu and Akka mahadevi</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal"><FONT SIZE=5>seven
 
deadly sins</FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>wealth
 
without work</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>pleasure
 
without conscience</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>science
 
without humanity</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>knowledge
 
without character</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>politics
 
without principle</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>commerce
 
without morality</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>worship
 
without sacrifice.</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>Mahatma
 
Gandhi</I></FONT></P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
 
</P>
 
<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT SIZE=4><I>MIND MAP</I></FONT></P>
 
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He won the noble prize for the 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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=Poem=
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Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!
 +
Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?<br>
 +
Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee<br>
 +
 
 +
He is there the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the path-maker is breaking stones.<br>
 +
He is with them in sun and shower,and his garment is covered with dust.<br>
 +
Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!<br>
 +
 
 +
Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? <br>
 +
Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all forever.<br>
 +
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense!<br>
 +
 
 +
What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained?<br>
 +
Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow.<br>
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[[File:Work_is_Worship_html_150f7ca9.jpg]]
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[[File:Work_is_Worship_html_m70f9bda1.jpg]]
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[[File:Work_is_Worship_html_m5de8f098.jpg]]
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[[File:Work_is_Worship_html_m52c79509.jpg]]
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[[File:Work_is_Worship_html_3169dad5.jpg]]
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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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'''Seven deadly sins by Mahatma Gandhi'''
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# wealth without work
 +
# pleasure without conscience
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# science without humanity
 +
# knowledge without character
 +
# politics without principle
 +
# commerce without morality
 +
# worship without sacrifice.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Best line of the poem which I liked most:'''
 +
 
 +
''Put off the thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!''
 +
 
 +
==Quotations which emphasize importance of work or Karmayog==
 +
# work before you play
 +
# work is food for noble mind
 +
# There is no shortcut to hard work
 +
# work without love is slavery – M. Teresa
 +
 
 +
==New words==
 +
 
 +
# Chant-say a prayer in a singing voice
 +
# Till(verb)-prepare and use land for growing crops
 +
# Garment-dress
 +
# Deliverance-final release from rebirth
 +
# Bead-a small round ball of wood
 +
 
 +
 
 +
==Suggested books for further reading==
 +
 
 +
# Vachana's of lord Basavanna
 +
# Vachana's of Sarvajnana
 +
# Vachana's of Allam Prabhu and Akka mahadevi
 +
 
 +
Contributed by: Dundappa Talwar, GHS Malla.B, Shorapur

Latest revision as of 15:16, 31 January 2013

Poet Rabindranath 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.

Work is Worship html m398d4bea.jpg

He won the noble prize for the 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.

Poem

Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?
Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee

He is there the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the path-maker is breaking stones.
He is with them in sun and shower,and his garment is covered with dust.
Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!

Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found?
Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all forever.
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense!

What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained?
Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow.

Work is Worship html 150f7ca9.jpg

Work is Worship html m70f9bda1.jpg

Work is Worship html m5de8f098.jpg

Work is Worship html m52c79509.jpg

Work is Worship html 3169dad5.jpg

Theme of the poem

Karmayoga (socially productive and useful work) alone will help man achieve liberation from rebirth.

Seven deadly sins by Mahatma Gandhi

  1. wealth without work
  2. pleasure without conscience
  3. science without humanity
  4. knowledge without character
  5. politics without principle
  6. commerce without morality
  7. worship without sacrifice.


Best line of the poem which I liked most:

Put off the thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!

Quotations which emphasize importance of work or Karmayog

  1. work before you play
  2. work is food for noble mind
  3. There is no shortcut to hard work
  4. work without love is slavery – M. Teresa

New words

  1. Chant-say a prayer in a singing voice
  2. Till(verb)-prepare and use land for growing crops
  3. Garment-dress
  4. Deliverance-final release from rebirth
  5. Bead-a small round ball of wood


Suggested books for further reading

  1. Vachana's of lord Basavanna
  2. Vachana's of Sarvajnana
  3. Vachana's of Allam Prabhu and Akka mahadevi

Contributed by: Dundappa Talwar, GHS Malla.B, Shorapur