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Govinda s Disciple
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Govinda’s Disciple Summary
The poem Govinda’s Disciple by Rabindranath Tagore beautifully highlights the traits of true master and his disciple who has not been able to overcome his materialistic nature.
The great teacher sat on a rock on the bank of the Ganga. His wealthy disciple, Raghunath came to him with a gift of emerald and gems studded golden bangles. After bowing to him, he offered him the costly gift.
The master teacher took one of the bangles and started twirling it round his finger. Suddenly, the costly bangle slipped from the master’s finger, and fell into the strong current of Ganga below. Raghunath, jumped after the bangle to retrieve it. The master teacher kept sitting peacefully on the rock. The bangle was lost in the water.
After a long search, Raghunath could not find the bangle and came back to the master. He asked him the exact place where the bangle had fallen. The master quite composedly took the another bangle and threw it into the exact place in the river where the former bangle had fallen.
Through the poem the poet given the message that true masters don’t value materialistic trinket.
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GOVINDAS DIACIPLE
THE RIVER YAMUNA WAS SURROUNDED BY BEAUTIFUL NATURAL RESOURCES LIKE DARK WOODS AND BEAUTIFUL HILLS. THERE LIVED A GREAT SIKH GURU GOVINDA. ONE DAY HE WAS READING SCRIPTURES THEN SUDDENLY HIS DISCIPLE RAGHUNATH WHO WAS VERY RICH AND PROUD AT HIS WEALTH CAME TO HIM AND TOLD GOVINDA THAT ' GURU I HAVE BROUGHT A GIFT FOR YOU THAT GIFT IS UNWORTHLY IN YOUR ACCEPTENCE HENCE A POOR GIFT '. BY SAYING THIS HE HANDED A PAIR OF GOLDEN BANGLES TO HIS GURU. THESE GOLDEN BANGLES WERE TOO COSTLY BECAUSE IT WAS COVERED WITH RICH STONES LIKE DIMONDS ON IT . GOVINDA PURPOSELY SLIPPED ONE OF THE BANGLES INTO THE RIVER YAMUNA. RAGHUNATH SCREAMED AND WAS DISSAPOINTED . HE JUMPED INTO THE RIVER YAMUNA TO SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN BANGLE HE HAD BOUGHT FOR HIS GURU GOVINDA. THE DAY LIGJT FADED WHEN RAGHUNATH CAME BACK . HE WAS TIRED AND WAS DIPPING AND WAS NOT ABLE TO SEARCH THE GOLDEN BANGLE. HE TOLD HIS GURU GOVINDA TO SHOW HIM WHERE WAS THE GOLDEN BANGLE IN THE RIVER YAMUNA BECAUSE GOVINDA WAS A GREAT SIKH GURU HENCE A DEVOTEE TOWARDS THE LORD SO HE KNEW WHERE WAS BANGLE IN THAT RIVER. GOVINDA SUDDENLY TOOK THE OTHER BANGLE AND THREW IT INTO THE RIVER AND TOLD 'SEE THERE IT IS'
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