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no land,—no sound but that of the sea
forest,
moaning incessantly! No word can express it but
jit looked so grand! There is no object that meets
‘the eye, yet it is so impressive! One who has a
‘sinless heart can alone appreciate the grandeur of
mihe sea.”
_ Govinda’s writings are free from narrow and
orthodox views on religion. Chaitanya Deva visited
‘the temple of Civa, of Cakti, of Ganapati and of
‘Surja. Wherever and under whatever form or
‘name, God was worshipped, Chaitanya Deva took
Bhat as the emblem of the Lord of his heart; it
acted as a sign to remind him of One ae he
loved supremely. The feeling that burnt like holy
Incense in the temple of his heart was nourished
by all that he saw, and in his enlightened and
spiritual view, gross forms and superstitious ideas
were translated into the edifying truths of pure
faith.
It is in the descriptions of Govinda Das in the
above strain that we find how the prophets and seers
of India rejected nothing in the faith of the people
however gross it might apparently seem. They
always interpreted the thing worshipped in the high-
est light of faith and thus bridged over the gap bet-
ween Fetichism and Vedantism. The lower classes in
ই ই শব্দে সমুদ্র ডাকিছে নিরন্তর |
কি কব অধিক সেথা সকলি সুন্দর ॥
দেখিবার কিছু নাই তথাপি শোভন ।
সেখানে সৌন্দর্য্য দেখে শুদ্ধ যার মন ॥”
Kadcha.
Free from
orthodoxy.
Hinduism
accepts
all wors
ship and
rejects
none.