Achinta Bhattacharya's The Place of God

Achinta Bhattacharya

             Achinta Bhattacharya has devoted his life for the noble mission of educating street children. His organization CLPOA collects and cultivates the human resource, which is scattered in the slums and streets of Kolkata to surely make them a proud part of city of joy.

He studied at Jadavpur University. Later he studied in the field of Media. In Colombo, he was a part of the project of media training of BBC. He also served the people of disturbed Moorichhkapi.

He has contributed towards the welfare of marginal people although his life.

‘‘The Place of God.’’

I go to the temple and ask the priest,

‘‘Take me to God.’’

The priest smiles and nods his head

‘‘No here is no God.’’

I go to a hill and meet a monk, and hope if he tells me

the place of God.

But the monk says,

‘‘I am too

In search of God.’’

I ask myself,

‘‘Where is the God?’’

I heard someone is speaking in me,

‘‘Here is the God.’’

Anaiysis of the poem

           The place of God, it is philosophical poem. In this poem, speaker who wants to search the God and the speaker tries to search the God. Therefore, the speaker going in the temple and told to the priest that he take the speaker to God. But priest smile and nod his head in negative way and told to the speaker that

                     ‘‘No here is no God.’’

The poet that in the temple there is no God very satirically describes it then where is the God? And why Are all the people going in the temple with the hope of ‘Darshan’ of God?

            Then speaker going at a hill and meet a monk with the hope that he told to the speaker the place of God. Here poet used the word ‘hope’ in satirical way that everybody believes that monk knows everything about the God and he always touched with God. Here he also told to speaker that he also search of God.

           Then at the end of the poem, speaker asked himself that where the God is? He heard someone who is speaking within that

                                    ‘‘Here is the God.’’

          Therefore, we can say that God in ourselves but we find in other. We have perspective to seem the God in ourselves. Some Indian Philosophical books told that something in us that is very much powerful and it has light and when we seem that kind of light we become ‘Brahm’ and we meet ‘Parabrahm’.

          Therefore, poet here describe that God is in us. We have no need to search God in temple and in hut. This idea very well describe in the movie ‘‘Oh My God.’’ 

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