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1. Govinda's Disciple English Literature ART AND CULTURE

2. Welcome to Class ! Stanza 4 Message of the Poem About the Author Today we’ll discuss Stanza 2 Stanza 3 Stanza 1

3. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rabindranath Tagore(7 May 1861- 8 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his elegant prose and magical poetry were popular in the Indian subcontinent In 1901, Tagore moved to Santiniketan to found an ashram with a marble-floored prayer hall—The Mandir —an experimental school, groves of trees, gardens, a library. In 1903, his wife passed away at the age of 30, followed by two of their children; his father then died in 1905. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

4. Stanza 1 Far below flowed the Ganga, quick and clear, frowned the jutting bank. Hills dark with woods and scared with torrents were gathered around

5. Stanza 2 Govinda, the great teacher, sat on the rock reading scriptures, When Raghunath his disciple, proud of his wealth, came and bowed to him and said, “I have brought wealth, unworthy of thy acceptance.”

6. Stanza 3 Thus saying, he displayed before the teacher a pair of gold bangles studded with costly gems and emeralds. The master took up one of them, twirling it round his finger, and the stones darted shaft of light.

7. Stanza 4 Suddenly it slipped from his hand and rolled down the bank into the water. Raghunath jumped into the water. the teacher set his eyes upon his book, and the water held and hid what it stole and ran its way.

8. Stanza 5 At sunset when Raghunath came back. He begged him to show him the place where it fell. The teacher took the other bangle and threw it into the water saying, “There it is”.

9. Message of the Poem Rabindranath Tagore's "Govinda's Disciple" is a moral poem which gives us an insight of what is real meaning of spiritualism and how we can achieve it. It is all about the relationship between a guru, Govinda and his Disciple, Ragunath . Govinda’s Disciple is a powerful poem, for it shows how a guru ought to teach hard lessons to facilitate the spiritual pursuits of his students. It shows how materialism creates a barrier in the way to achieve spiritualism. Here Govinda teaches Raghunath material pleasure and spiritual pleasure can not go together. We have to choose any one of them.

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