Jagjit and Chitra Singh

Vaishnav Jan to tene kahiye je

Just listening

I was sitting in A2B hotel the other day, just after taking the food that I had received from the self-service counter. While I was munching on my masala dosa, I was saying, ohh there is so much noise here. It was a place full of people. I am in general quite fed up by noises, traffic, honking, loudspeakers, and now, even here for dinner, I have to listen to so much noise. 

Then I recalled Devang's favourite timespass:- just listening.

Something changed. I paused my eating for a while. Looking at a couple on the right, I listened to them. Some South Indian Language which I couldn't understand. Then the group of friends on left. Some laugh, light talk. Then the sweet delivery person on right front distant counter shouting to someone far, about some order. The person ordering food behind me, and the cashier replying. People at distance. Traffic at even distant road.

All the sounds got sorted out! IT was suddenly SILENT inside! :)

I noticed that there is a soundscape around me ... Just like when one sees one sight object on the right, one is not seeing that on left, sounds don't overlap, you follow them one by one. 

Unfortunately, ears don't have earlids like eyelids, to close them at will. So we can't shut the sounds falling on the ears. And since we don't want to listen them, it becomes a noise. Now there can be a noisy sound, but not a noisy picture. This is where sight and listening differs.

Watch "August Rush".

You fill up my senses

Everyone has come here for some purpose. When they do that, something beautiful happens. What have I come here for?

Dance Dance Dance!

The song that made me dance, still makes me shake up wake up when I hear it:-

14 Feb 2006.

3 Days before the grand Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Art of Living Foundation.

10,000 International guests

Amphi Theater

In front of His Holiness Sri Sri RaviShankarji !!

Some 15 of us danced and danced and I don't know how it happened.

Rewind the time, 1 month or so before, I had no coordination between legs, hands,
beats and whatever!

Padmasadhana rounds, help by friends(just won't forget you guys!), and oh wow, what
a great choreographer...

Practise practise practise... when I got up, when I brushed teeth, after bath, on the walk to Institute, before and after dinner, hall, bedroom, terrace, practise places, nothing but
dance!

First time this body was thrilled with freedom of movement...

I never looked back, and dance is part of life, one way or other!

Raising Valour

Raising the valour within is one of the ways to get out of any problems...
When you roar like a lion or walk with the majesty of an elephant, problems dare not stand in front of you.


This is a Marathi song...
Some of the lines mean...:

Brave we soldiers
Whom are we afraid off
For country, divine and righteousness
We have put our life on stake

From the womb of mother
We learnt the spirit of fight
We married the sword and loved it
Lacs of hits it can withstand, such a brave heart we have

Either win or drop dead in battle
This is all what we know
Fight and die, Live after death
This is all what we know

For the country
We gave up all the affection and relations
For country, divine and righteousness
We have put our life on stake

Brave we soldiers
Whom are we afraid off

Supercalfragalisticexpialidocious

Sher ki Kahani

Most difficult thing to hide...

You can easily hide the thoughts. Feelings are not so easy to hide, looking at someone, you can see what he/she is feeling. 

More subtler we go, its more difficult to hide! 

Love is most difficult thing to hide...

Yet, it is also most difficult thing to expres..!

There were days when movie songs would portray the dignity in love. There was some depth in the expression. When will the days come back

where we can have meaningful lyrics, written from heart, not intellect, and such devout singing that simply conveys the feeling, the longing?

since the days when the media has become so handy and easy, probably the producers have lost the depth of conveying it can give, so the production is so shallow.

21st km

This is an absolutely amazing gem of a work in devotional youthful music! Check out the copy in the Art of Living Divine shops nearby and tell me how you find the song "Just Breathe"!

I need more such!