When It Was Day They Came into My House
by
Rabindranath Tagore
(Text & Summary)
This is the 33rd poem of Gitanjali.
The poet here brings out how desires corrupt man in a beautiful manner. Worldly
desires enter into a man's heart. They claim they would help him. They grow
bold and aggressively attack when everything is dark and all are asleep, and
rob the house. One must, therefore, not be taken in by the soft and insidious
words of desires.
When It Was Day They Came into My House
When
it was day they came into my house and said, "We shall only take the
smallest room here."
They
said, "We shall help you in the worship of your God and humbly accept only
our own share of his grace"; and then they took their seat in a corner and
they sat quiet and meek.
But
in the darkness of night I find they break into my sacred shrine, strong and
turbulent, and snatch with unholy greed the offerings from God's altar.
In this
poem, Tagore talks about how worldly desires enter and corrupt the human heart
and soul. He says, that these desires come in the manner of thieves during the
night and plunder his house. During the day, these worldly desires came and
begged the poet to give them the smallest room in his house. They told the poet
that they would help him in worshipping God and saying so, they settled into a corner.
But then in the darkness of the night they came out of their corner and displayed
great strength and invaded the post sacred shrine, His temple and with their
greed snatched all that the poet had offered his God.
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