LEISURE
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
- Wm. Henry Davies.
Traditional Jayadeva's song sung in fusion style by someone with any extraordinarily sweet voice - so fluid and smooth. I am sorry I cannot translate it as it is in Sanskrit and I myself dont understand many words.
Jayadeva was a 12th century poet and mystic from India like Rumi...he created beautiful erotic songs on the love of Radha and Krishna in Sanskrit. He was scolded by his father for associating eroticism to esoteric things. There are couple of things worth mentioning about him - one is that - once while he was composing a song he got a verse in his mind that Krishna fell on Radha's feet to assuage her jealous anger - and he thought it was irreverent that a man should touch a woman's feet and left that verse incomplete to think about it and went to the river for a bath. It is said that Krishna himself came in the form of Jayadeva (Jayadeva's wife is the witness) and completed that verse as thought before.
Another thing worth mentioning is the love between Jayadeva and his wife Padmavathi - they were very much in love with each other. At one point a queen decided to test her love for her husband and told her a lie that Jayadeva died while hunting...the wife fell unconscious immediately( actually said to be dead) but Jayadeva came and revived her. He even wrote a verse for her in one of his poems saying 'I am Padmavathi's slave'. How romantic.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayadeva
Grace
"The thirsty Chataka bird requests the cloud for only three or four drops
of water, and the cloud provides water for the entire earth. Such is
the generousity of great people."
- 'Subashita Sangraha'
Link: http://sanskritdocuments.org/atul/sangra
Jealousy
"Once the organs of the body like eyes, ears, limbs became jealous of the tongue, saying that they make all efforts for securing food, but the tongue enjoys this. They stopped working and never sent any food. Tongue is the one that tastes the food and passes only palatable items of food inside, which is converted by the internal organs into energy giving blood. The tongue does not retain it. But for this vital part played by the tongue, the other organs would not be able to function at all. When the other organs became jealous of the tongue and stopped sending food with a view to harm it, they spelt their own ruin by such action, as they could not function when there was no food and consequently no supply of energy for these organs to function. Similarly, jealousy on the part of a person ultimately results in his own ruin. "
- Sathya Sai Baba
Link : http://www.sailingam.org/tftd_all_langua
It is one of my favorite songs...from a recent movie called 'Godavari' - name of a river. The song has old classical Indian style of singing. Just press play button once you open the link.
http://www.raaga.com/play/?id=30009
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
This short is my favorite...I remember seeing this a long time ago before a movie.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME5DxqpUg
Today we saw this cute short film in Animation class.
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_OqprX71
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_OqprX71
Snagged from a friend's journal - ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
spilt_erum :
"Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in."
leonard cohen's "anthem"
There is a crack in everything...that is how the light gets in... So dont worry so much about being bit of a crackpot. :)
Light seems to be the topic of the day for me...everywhere I go in the present, light is the topic of the day...I am learning animation - and Lighting is the module I am learning these days.
How light falls on an object...how it changes the shadow...Morning sun throws a different shadow than an afternoon sun...There is something special about light. If I paint an artpiece and I fill it with luminous colors people are deeply drawn into a trancelike admiration as opposed to dull, muddy, lightless colors.
I remember this one time when I was deeply scared at night of ghosts and fearful things so I was unable to sleep. All I had to do was flip on my bedlight and I felt so safe like a baby in mother's arms and I slept soundly with the light on. So there must be some power to light than I am not consciously aware of - it has great protective energies within it. Many frightening creatures make their appearance only in the dark - prowling looking for prey. So do sinister characters like thieves. In day light, they wouldnt dare. These days, thieves show up fearlessly in broad day light. :)
There is a prayer in India that is said to be the most powerful prayer of all - it is called the Gayatri Mantra:
"Om Bhur bhuvah suvaha
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya Dheemahi
Dheeyo yonah prachodayat"
"The Enchanting light that fills the three worlds of Bhu, bhuvar and Suvar
I meditate on this divine light
And in doing so, let me be enlightened, inspired."
I feel there is a lot to light that stays a mystery waiting to be tapped and discovered. A feeling that we are all (all physical things) made of light and we do at some level have the ability to absorb and photosynthesize light energy like plants do...although 'how' is a mystery hidden from me...at some level I am aware of our deep potential for that where we wouldnt even need food but just use light as the source of food for our body energy. There are things we understand emotionally light years before our logic, science and our bodies catch up to it.
spilt_erum :"Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in."
leonard cohen's "anthem"
There is a crack in everything...that is how the light gets in... So dont worry so much about being bit of a crackpot. :)
Light seems to be the topic of the day for me...everywhere I go in the present, light is the topic of the day...I am learning animation - and Lighting is the module I am learning these days.
How light falls on an object...how it changes the shadow...Morning sun throws a different shadow than an afternoon sun...There is something special about light. If I paint an artpiece and I fill it with luminous colors people are deeply drawn into a trancelike admiration as opposed to dull, muddy, lightless colors.
I remember this one time when I was deeply scared at night of ghosts and fearful things so I was unable to sleep. All I had to do was flip on my bedlight and I felt so safe like a baby in mother's arms and I slept soundly with the light on. So there must be some power to light than I am not consciously aware of - it has great protective energies within it. Many frightening creatures make their appearance only in the dark - prowling looking for prey. So do sinister characters like thieves. In day light, they wouldnt dare. These days, thieves show up fearlessly in broad day light. :)
There is a prayer in India that is said to be the most powerful prayer of all - it is called the Gayatri Mantra:
"Om Bhur bhuvah suvaha
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya Dheemahi
Dheeyo yonah prachodayat"
"The Enchanting light that fills the three worlds of Bhu, bhuvar and Suvar
I meditate on this divine light
And in doing so, let me be enlightened, inspired."
I feel there is a lot to light that stays a mystery waiting to be tapped and discovered. A feeling that we are all (all physical things) made of light and we do at some level have the ability to absorb and photosynthesize light energy like plants do...although 'how' is a mystery hidden from me...at some level I am aware of our deep potential for that where we wouldnt even need food but just use light as the source of food for our body energy. There are things we understand emotionally light years before our logic, science and our bodies catch up to it.
