OUR BODIES, OUR HOMES
THE GUEST HOUSE (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi)
C.3 FROM THE TEXT:
a. Why is awareness called an unexpected visitor?
Awareness in the midst of depression, meanness, joy
and sorrow it can help individuals to see beyond their negative thoughts and
emotions in an unexpected way. Hence when human being is treated as guest
house, awareness is a visitor.
b. Why does the speaker ask us to welcome
and entertain our negative feelings?
Negative feelings sometimes might be able to clear out
our own doubts and guide us beyond to show some new delight. So, the speaker
asks us to welcome and entertain our negative feelings.
C.4 ANSWER THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
a. Every day you experience a different ______feeling________ Some will lift you up
whereas others would drain you. We must welcome _______all______
emotions and be _______grateful_______
for the negative ones.
b. List some of the negative emotions
you experience when unexpected events happen in life.
Ans: DO BY SELF.
c. According to the speaker, negative
emotions are also necessary because,
Ans: they
can sometimes clear out our own doubts and guide us beyond to show some new
delight.
d. The negative emotions would
eventually leave and you will become a,
Ans: delighted
person.
e. Who is staying in your guest house
these days? Are there any emotions that you are turning away from?
Ans: DO BY SELF.
C. 5 Based on the
reading passage choose the correct option.
Welcome and entertain them
all!
Even if they’re a crowd of
sorrows,
Who violently sweep your
house
Empty of its furniture,
Still, treat each guest
honourably.
He may be clearing you out
For some new delight.
a. Select the options
that best describes the theme of the poem.
ii. We must
accept whatever life brings us, no matter what its shape of form, with
optimism.
b. Select the option
that lists what the speaker asks us to welcome.
1.
happiness
2.
unkindness
3.
grief
4.
neighbours
5.
ill-feeling
iv. 2 and 5
c. Choose the option that is true for these statements.
According
to the speaker,
1.
we should welcome all kinds of emotions, even the negative ones.
2.
negative emotions may teach us a lesson that leads to a better living.
i. Both sentences are true, and 1 is the cause of 2
d. “If you treat your emotions like unwanted guests,
then you will desperately wait for them to leave. This can lead to further negative
experiences. On the other hand, if you welcome them …………….……………. and …………….…………….
there is a possibility of learning a potential lesson”.
i. adamantly, optimistically
C.6 Choose the
correct options.
a. Choose the statement that exemplifies the meaning
of the word ‘beyond’ as used in the poem.
iv. His soul has left for the great beyond.
b. Choose the option that is NOT TRUE, according to
the speaker.
We
should
i. reveal in all our emotions and
depression.
C.7 Answer the
following questions:
a. What is a human being compared to in
the poem? Why?
Human being in this poem is compared to a guest house.
Human being is seen as guest house as it receives unexpected visitor, i. e. new
feelings and emotions every morning.
b. What do you understand of the feeling
expressed in the line violently sweeps your house empty of its furniture?
How can one overcome such a feeling?
‘Violently sweeps your house empty of its furniture’
indicates the strong feelings of sorrows that sweep the happiness of one’s
life. This crowd of sorrows can be overcome with honorable and cheerful
treatments.
c. Do you agree with the poet’s opinion
that we should be grateful for whatever comes our way? Give reasons for your
answer.
Yes, we must be grateful for whatever comes our way,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. We must not be disturbed
with whatever comes our way. Instead with caring treatment we can change them
to happiness.
d. Giving real-life examples, elaborate
on how a person can implement the message from the poem.
Feelings and emotions are part of human life. They
come in like an unexpected visitor. This realization helps us not run away from
them when they come. Sometimes sorrows and depression can take away our joyful
living. With awareness we need to accept them with laugh and delight and choose
to be happy.
C.8 Answer the
following questions in detail:
a. Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Elaborate on who or what
the poet is referring to in these lines.
Feelings and emotions are part of human life. The poet refers to these emotions as unexpected visitors. Every feeling has something to teach us in life. Be it good or bad, joys or sorrows, we must be grateful to these feelings. With awareness we need to accept them with laugh and delight and choose to be happy.
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