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 III SEMESTER   B.A/ B.COM/ B.Sc/ B.B.M  GENERAL ENGLISH-2020-21- TIME : 3 HOURS                                                                                  MARKS : 80 SECTION - A  ( 4×5=20 ) I    ANNOTATIONS       ANSWER ANY FOUR  OUT OF SIX ANNOTATIONS  ( 4×5=20 ) SECTION - B  ( 3X20= 60 ) ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS II A 1. ESSAY QUESTION FROM THE FIRST LESSON                                          10 MARKS        2. READING COMPREHENSION  ( SEEN PASSAGE )                                      ...

  Transformation ? Om Namo Bagavathe Sri Auravindaya. Oh God !  I surrender myself to you Give me strength to swim across the powerful currents of these turbulent times.  A litmus test?  Dark phase in life makes  closer to God? Unite with divine? Is the Dark phase  a blessing? Enlightened me? Awaiting Transformation ? All my physical, mental trauma,pain,suffering and numbness left to You  Oh ! Divine Mother awaken this ignorant soul. Show the spritual path leading to eternal bliss. Ah! I hear a voice. Oh ! mortal,worry not.

Sri Aurobindo's poem  A Tree    A tree beside the sandy river-beach   Holds up its topmost boughs  Like fingers towards the skies ,they cannot reach,  Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.  This is the soul of man. Body and brain  Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.   ( Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p)  A tree  by sri Aurobindo is a six line spritual poem containing a quartain and a couplet. abab rhyme scheme in quartain. He speaks about attaining higher level of sprituality in humans.Tree is used as a metaphor. A Tree beside river is with its branches upwards like fingers towards heaven.Though the boughs try to reach skies it cannot touch the sky. The poet talks about tree's positivity to reach Supreme God. Tree is deep rooted to the earth and immovable,still tries to reach divine. whereas the man is...