Tagore as Gurudev

It is an undeniable fact that he primarily desired to remain a poet in people’s hearts.

The Oxford English dictionary defines ‘Guru’ as a “Hindu spiritual teacher. Also, each of the ten first leaders of the Sikh religion. The word comes from Sanskrit meaning ‘weighty’, ‘grave’, hence ‘elder, teacher’. It must be the third sentence of this definition that must have irked Rabindranath Tagore.