Inspired by a.v.koshy I have been reading Tagore. This poem seems like a good message for us when these ten weeks are over.
Leave This.
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
where the tiller is tilling the hard ground
and where the pathmaker
is breaking stones.
He is with them in sun and in 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 for ever.
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.
Rabindranath Tagore
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