ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GUR&#362 GOBINDA 1</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279<i>GUR&#362 GOBINDA</i> is one of R&#257bindran&#257th Tagore's three poems in Bengali on Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. The other two poems are "Nishfal Uph&#257r" (A Selfless Gift) and "Shesh Shiksh&#257" (The Last Lesson) . The three poems were composed by Tagore sometime between June 1888 and October 1899. "Gur&#363 Gobinda" is a poem enunciating the poet's ideal of a true national leader. He visualized such a leader -- the model for him is Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh -- as being totally given to the service of the people without any mundane ambition. For projecting this precept, Tagore employs the device of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh making a speech before some of his close disciples who visited him during his period of comparative seclusion on the banks of the River Yamun&#257 when he was engaged in study and contemplation preparatory to launching upon the more active phase of his career. "Nishfal Uph&#257r" presents the same moral derived from the life of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. "Shesh Shiksh&#257" makes an ethical point based, however, on McGregor's historically unauthenticated account of the last days of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh in his <i>History of the Sikhs</i> in which the author says that Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh had himself suggested it to the Pa&#7789h&#257n to avenge the death of his father at his, i.e. the Gur&#363's, hands.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Him&#257dr&#299 Banerjee<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>