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Rabindranath Tagore - Religious Obsession -- translation from DharmamohaRabindranath Tagore - Religious Obsession -- translation from Dharmamoha
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Who is obsessed by religion He is blind He only kills and gets killed. Even an atheist is blessed Because he doesn’t have the vanity of any faith. Humbly he lights up his reason Defies the authority of scriptures And seeks only the good of men. He who kills as infidels The followers of other faiths Dishonours his own faith He kills the son in the name of the father Busy only with the rituals He loses his reason He hoists a blood-stained flag in his temple In the name of God He worships the Devil. Those who have retained in their creed The shame of ages, the cruelties and barbarities With those rubbish They are building their own prison I hear a bugle is blowing The bugle of universal doom With his scythe the god of destruction is coming. Planting him as a stake who comes to liberate Putting him up like a dividing wall who comes to unite Flooding the world with poison in his name Who brings love from a divine source They drown sailing in a boat they themselves have scuttled Yet they blame someone else! I invoke you O you the supreme judge Please come to end this degeneration of religion Save those who are deluded by their faith. Your altar they have flooded with blood Please completely break it Hurl your thunder at the prison walls of faiths And bring to this cursed land The light of reason.
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