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Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow: Examine the reason for calling Meera Bai an ascetic figure. Analyze Meera Bai’s relation with Mewar. How was Mirabai - History

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Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Love for the Lord

This is part of a song attributed to Mirabai:
  I will build a funeral pyre of sandalwood and aloe;
  Light it by your own hand
  When I am burned away to cinders;
  Smear this ash upon limbs.
  ... let flame be lost in flame.

In another verse, she sings:
  What can Mewar's ruler do to me?
  If God is angry, all is lost,
  But what can the Rana do?

  1. Examine the reason for calling Meera Bai an ascetic figure.
  2. Analyze Meera Bai’s relation with Mewar.
  3. How was Mirabai unique among the poet-saints of the Bhakti movement?
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उत्तर

  1. i. Meera Bai led a life of asceticism and became a devotional and mystic poet.
    ii. She stood against the conventions of her times.
    iii. She showed her spiritual devotion to Krishna.
  2. Mira Bai was married to the crown prince of Mewar but after a few years, Rana of Mewar died.
  3. i. Mirabai was unique among the poet-saints of the Bhakti movement owing to her socio-economic background as well as her gender.
    ii. Born a princess, she opted for the life of a saint.
    iii. She lived a life of austerity.
    iv. She showed absolute devotion to her beloved Krishna.
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Which of the following statements is NOT correct about Baba Guru Nanak?


Which of these was the capital of Akbar?


Read the following source carefully and answer the following question by choosing the most appropriate option:

One Lord

Here is a composition attributed to Kabir:
Tell me, brother, how can there be
No one lord of the world but two?
Who led you so astray?
God is called by many names:
Names like Allah, Ram, Karim,
Keshav, Hari, and Hazrat.
Gold may be shaped into rings and bangles.
Isn’t it gold all the same?
Distinctions are only words we invent …
Kabir says they are both mistaken.
Neither can find the only Ram.
One kills the goat, the other cows.
They waste their lives in disputation

Identify the connotation of Kabir from the following options.


Read the following source carefully and answer the following question by choosing the most appropriate option:

One Lord

Here is a composition attributed to Kabir:
Tell me, brother, how can there be
No one lord of the world but two?
Who led you so astray?
God is called by many names:
Names like Allah, Ram, Karim,
Keshav, Hari, and Hazrat.
Gold may be shaped into rings and bangles.
Isn’t it gold all the same?
Distinctions are only words we invent …
Kabir says they are both mistaken.
Neither can find the only Ram.
One kills the goat, the other cows.
They waste their lives in disputation

Kabir used different names for God or the Supreme power. What can one infer from this?


Read the following source carefully and answer the following question by choosing the most appropriate option:

One Lord

Here is a composition attributed to Kabir:
Tell me, brother, how can there be
No one lord of the world but two?
Who led you so astray?
God is called by many names:
Names like Allah, Ram, Karim,
Keshav, Hari, and Hazrat.
Gold may be shaped into rings and bangles.
Isn’t it gold all the same?
Distinctions are only words we invent …
Kabir says they are both mistaken.
Neither can find the only Ram.
One kills the goat, the other cows.
They waste their lives in disputation

How has Kabir’s compositions promote communal harmony at large?


Read the following source carefully and answer the following question by choosing the most appropriate option:

One Lord

Here is a composition attributed to Kabir:
Tell me, brother, how can there be
No one lord of the world but two?
Who led you so astray?
God is called by many names:
Names like Allah, Ram, Karim,
Keshav, Hari, and Hazrat.
Gold may be shaped into rings and bangles.
Isn’t it gold all the same?
Distinctions are only words we invent …
Kabir says they are both mistaken.
Neither can find the only Ram.
One kills the goat, the other cows.
They waste their lives in disputation

Which of the following is the part of Kabir’s philosophy?


The verses of Baba Farid were incorporated in ______.


'Bijak' is compiled by ______.


Baba Guru Nanak was born in ______.


Who compiled the hymns of Baba Guru Nanak?


Mirabai was the devotee of ______.


Arranged them in chronological order.

  1. Kabir
  2. Mirabai
  3. Guru Nanak
  4. Shankaradeva

Match the following:

List I List II
A. Guru Nanak 1. Assam
B. Kabir 2. Marwar
C. Shankaradeva 3. Nankana Sahib
D. Mirabai 4. Varanasi

Match the following:

List I List II
A. Lingayat 1. Punjab
B. Kabirpanthi 2. Karnataka
C. Baba Guru Nanak 3. Rajasthan
D. Mira Bai 4. Benaras

Select the correct chronological order of the Bhakti Saints from the following:


The bhakti Saint who was not a worshipper of Krishna was ______.


Which of the following statement describe the teaching of Kabir?

(i) To achieve inward spiritual bliss.

(ii) Condemnation of empty ritual.

(iii) To faster harmony between Hinduism and Islam.


Which of the following statements are correct?

(i) Mirabai was the saint of the Bhakti movement.

(ii) She was the daughter of Rana Ratan Singh the ruler of Merta.

(iii) She was born in 1498 in the Kudvivillage of Merta.

(iv) She was devoted to the devotion of Lord Krishna.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.


'Kabir is known as one of the saints whose philosophy has greatly influenced the Bhakti Movement.' Justify the statement with suitable points.


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