Kabir and Tagore
Kabir and Tagore poems
After reading poems of Tagore's Leave this chanting and kabir's O sevant, where dost thou seek me? I find some similarities between ideas of these poems. Kabir's poem O sevant Where dost thou seek me? is an eye opener to all blind worshippers. He urges men not to search for God that he is beside in your fellow human being. the poet expresses the idea of merely worshipping God by visiting temples and Mosques is useless because he is not in temple or Masjid. See the God in your fellow being.
Seeking God visiting a temple or masjid, is futile, instead man has to see God in fellow human being.
Tagore brings out the same idea " man's ignorance of seeking God" his poem " Leave this Chanting".The poet urges not to sit in a dark corner of the temple by chanting mantras. Tagore's concept is that "Work is Worship" and "Serving human is serving God."
O servant, where dost thou seek Me?
Lo! I am beside thee.
I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor
in Kailash:
Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and
renunciation.
If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt.
meet Me in a moment of time.
Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath.
Leave this Chanting Tagore
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 path maker 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 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.
The speaker suggests that God is with hard working man, who is laying road by breaking stones. God is with him who is working dawn to dusk to meet his ends in hot sun and rain. The Poet calls upon the worshipper to remove his holy saffron clothes and come out from the dark corner of the temple to work under the hot sun in the field. he
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