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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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Answer in 100-150 words.

Describe the major teachings of either Kabir or Baba Guru Nanak, and the ways in which these have been transmitted. 


Consider the following statements regarding Kabir.

  1. Kabir organised his followers into a community and set up rules for congregational worship.
  2. Kabir described the Ultimate Reality using terms drawn from Islam, Vedantic traditions, and from yogic traditions.
  3. Verses ascribed to Kabir have been compiled in three distinct but overlapping traditions.

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?


Which of these was the capital of Akbar?


Who compiled Adi Granth?


Who among the following Gurus of Sikhs compiled ‘Guru Adi Granth Sahib’?


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?


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’s poetry has a literary as well as a philosophical significance.
Select the most appropriate option from the following that describes this essence.


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

Read the following statements regarding Kabir and select the appropriate option.

  1. Kabir was a nirguna saint.
  2. He believed in formless supreme God.
  3. He wanted to remove the differences based on caste and religion.
  4. He condemned the superstitious cults, the ritualism, the doctrines of both Hinduism and Islam.

'Bijak' is compiled by ______.


Baba Guru Nanak was born in ______.


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

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.


Who was the tenth Guru of Sikh?


The teachings of the Shankaradeva were known as ______.


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


'Kabir Das is one of the most outstanding examples of a Poet-saint who has given extensive views on social situation, institution and on ultimate reality.' Explain the statement.


"Baba Nanak's vision of the sacred word was all inclusive." Explain the statement.


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