Question

Political analysis of the poem the rich will make temples for siva

Answer 1

Answer:This may help you

Explanation:

Basava – The Temple and the Body

The rich will make temples for Siva.

What shall I, a poor man, do?

My legs are pillars, the body the shrine,

the head a cupola of gold.

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,

things standing shall fall,

but the moving ever shall stay.

The wealthy prove their piety by financing temples (or churches or mosques). Their devotion is concretized in stone and gold. It’s easy for a poor man, witnessing the splendor of a wealthy shrine, to imagine himself far behind on the road to heaven. What can he offer to compete with that? What temple can he build to offer proper worship? Basava gives us the solution offered by saints everywhere: Make of yourself a temple. My legs are pillars,the body the shrine,the head a cupola of gold.

This is where all true meditation, prayer, communion occurs. The built temple is but a reflection of the temple of the self. And that true temple is available to all, rich and poor, equally. Basava carries it further, pointing out how far superior the inner temple is. “Things standing,” structures built of wood or stone, no matter how lovely or inspiring, are destined to fall. A temple of stone stands but does not move. It lacks the life necessary to continually adjust itself to the shifting forces of time and gravity and the flow of nature all around; it is already crumbling,but the moving ever shall stay.

That which is animated, the temple of the embodied self, has life! It dances with the flow of existence and that life continues. Worship that takes place within that living temple lives as well, and lasts.

Answer 2

Answer:

When we analyze this poem from political view, it becomes very ambient.

Explanation:

• When we see this poem from political view it really makes sense because nowadays, Indian politics have gone in a very communal way. All parties just pick up a community as their vote bank and spread hatred against other communities. This hatred creates communal tensions in the country, which can lead to communal violence.
• But in real people wants development, proper law and order situations, proper rights and democracy.
• As the writer said in this line “My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head a cupola of gold”, we can see here the writer wants to represent the constitutional structure of a country.

So here we can draw a conclusion that political analysis of this makes it really ambient.

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