Leave This Chanting

Gitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Leave this sing is the eleventh poem in the collection. The poet advises the priests to give up their counting of beads and their singing and chanting of mantras. He also urges them stop the piety of deity in a hush-hush corner of the temple, with their eyes half shut. He sharply states, Open your eyes and tick off God is not on that point ahead you. God is not to be establish in this way.God lives with the humble and down-trodden like the tillers of the body politic and path-makers who lick hard at intermission stones. He lives with those who toil in sunlight and shower and whose clothes are muddy with dust. If the priest wants God he mustiness come out of his temple, give up his holy robes and work with the humble tillers of the land in rain and sun. Tagore thus glorifies the intent of the humble labourers and rejects the ascetic way of life. The ultimate sp iritual goal of the ascetic is to strain deliverance.This is the liberation of the soul from the cycle of extradite and death. But God Himself is bound to all(prenominal) of us in chains of love. He himself is not free and He has joyfully bound Himself to the work of creation and to the objects He has created. How can then man perpetually hope to be free from irons? He urges the ascetics to leave the ritualistic flowers and scent which does not serve any purpose. fit in to the poet one can find God not in the temple except with the workers who are working whole solar day in the dirt and under the calefactory sun.He asks us what harm is there if you work under the sun and if your clothes get spillage dirt. Even when your clothes are number out or stained there is no harm because one is going to see the creator. Thus Tagore conveys that participation in the activity of life is essential for the fruition of God. This poem Leave This Chanting is equally important in Worl d literary works due to his exposing the pseudo-zeal of worshippers everywhere.