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WORK IS WORSHIP
INTRODUCTION
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.
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


Quotations emphasizes importance of work or Karmayoag
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.by M.Teresa

New words;Chant-say a prayer in a singing voice
Till(v)-prepare and use land for growing crops
Garment-dress
Deliverance-final relase from rebirth
Bead-a small round ball of wood

WORK IS WORSHIP

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.









THEME OF THE POEM
Karmayoga(socially productive and useful work)alone will help man achieve liberation from rebirth


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!''



SUGGGESTED BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING

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



seven deadly sins
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
science without humanity
knowledge without character
politics without principle
commerce without morality
worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi