Summary of the poem The temple and the body(Vachana) written by Basavanna
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The poem 'The Temple And The Body' highlights the difference between the rich and the poor on the basis that the rich can build the temple of Shiva and hence attain the path to heaven. What could the poor do? The poor embodies the temple in his own body wherein his legs are pillars, the body is the shrine and the head is a cupola of gold. It is the head where prayer, communion and true meditation happens.
It further underlines the fact that temples erected by the rich would succumb to the effects of time and fall but the temple of the embodied self moves with the flow of time and will never perish.
It further underlines the fact that temples erected by the rich would succumb to the effects of time and fall but the temple of the embodied self moves with the flow of time and will never perish.
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Answer: Through this vachana Basavanna says that the rich people build temples for the God to show their devotion. But he cannot do so as he is a poor man. Constructing temple does not make us great devotees nor is it a sign of devotion when God infact resides in our heart. God doesn't appreciate these physical attributes but appreciates the true devotion. The soul lodged in the human body is infact a part of God. Hence Basavanna
talk about the superiority of spiritual belief over material things.
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