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Life- An Artform - by Sundar Srinivasan
By - 6:30 AM Thursday 19 January 2006
I like reading about mystics....a certain song and dance to the most mundane of activities..a kinda spring in their step..nothing is ever mundane, every moment is extraordinary and unlimited in potential....
Krishna.....playful, heroic, rebel, spiritual leader, warrior, romantic, friend, lover..ahhh..the hues....has been such an inspiration for indian cultural expresses....so much of art and music has found a platform through his life expresses...
so also the sufi masters...
so many hues life has to offer....melodies, colours....and all of these in a vibrant dynamic of unpredictability..a doorway for awe and wonder...
if we were able to only experience it...the joy of connecting to things and people around us....so much mystery, so much adventure...and so aesthetic....beautiful....
what then makes such a lovely experience so mundane and boring at times...in my opinion,our tendencies to judge, to compare....in the limited contexts of what we know, while a whole universe still awaits our explorations and attention....
.....as different from merely experiencing...life is an offering in variety, in diversity...and to savour it can be such a lovely experience...
we never connect....from our cores....to anyone or anything...that could make all the difference...we connect through the filters of our mind...
life can be an artform...to be celebrated , if we so chose it..else it can be a mundane chore, a dead habit...inspite of the most exciting and beautiful event manifests around us...the evolotion of life in it's expresses through us lies in the poetic journey of an awe-filled exploration...
with every bud that blossoms, a miracle is underway, as the petals open one by one to reveal the flower's face...similarly, every sunrise brings with it a fresh burst of life in a sleeping city...as also moments when strangers turn acquaintances,acquaintances turn into friends and so on....the miracle unfolds every moment....
celebrate life, celebrate existence....moment by moment...to me, celebration is very spiritual....
i see this blog as a manifest of that celebration...in sharing, healing, exploring, debating, connecting.....
speaking of life as an artform, today is Bagula Panchami, where the whole of south India offers tribute to Tyagaraja, the enlightened saint-musician who is one of the fundamental sources of carnatic music as we know of it today...an air of celebration through rhythm and melody everywhere...Bombay has celebrations at the various music auditoriums..all the musicians big and small alike pay homage to the great icon of spirituality and music through their own expressions.
a very beautiful celebration through art of the artform of life...
Posted By - 6:30 AM Thursday 19 January 2006
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cheers to that anusheh..somethinmg very close to my heart...the uniqueness of manifests in a universality of consciousness...
Posted by on January 19, 2006 10:19 AM
Sundar I dont know if you've read Osho's book titled Krishna. It's a really wonderful book.
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yeah anusheh..have read it a few years back...liked his perspectives on him...for me krishna has been a very inspiring icon of spirituality...
Posted by on January 19, 2006 11:02 AM
yes i feel the same after coming here. thank you. i read the blog evryday. dont understadn everything writen. but i like it. it helps me somtime.
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very nice of you to say that ikp...u know something, u have some place like this to come to...we did not have it when i was , say your age...God Bless ifsha for creating such a facility for people ....
Posted by on January 19, 2006 03:56 PM
Festivals are a great way to connect to people. This is somehting that has been a trend all around the world. One great thing that I see happening in India is that everybody is celebrating all the festivals of India even amidst all the chaos and fundamentalist activities.
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Sundar,
thanks for talking about Tyagaraja...I love his songs...my favourite is the one in which he compares the feet of God to money...speakers of telugu will understand the pun...for english is a poor translation to something sung with divine fervour.
" Nidhi chaala sukamaa? Ramuni Sannidhi sukamaa?"
" Is money (nidhi) more comforting or ramuni ( God's ) sannidhi (lotus presence) more comforting?
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dear sundar,
i completely agree with u..our life is the greatest representation of art...its so sad sometimes we Indians dont understand the importance of music,literature......and more importance is given to money oriented courses..in schools and colleges...there was a particular saying of kabir,which translated means
500 years after his death no one will remember the king of this place..
the sayings of mine will always be there today tomorrow and forever..
it is so true even today..centuries later i quote him not the riches of the king...
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ahhh aachi...tyagaraja and his bhava...even if one does not understand the language, the emotion stirs you up...melting melodies...
preethi, thanks for that feedback...yeah , flowering of the heart is so enriching...and adds immense value to life...
Posted by on January 20, 2006 06:54 AM
tx for that feedback annie,,,festivals are manifest of man's need to celebrate....sadly our capacities to celebrate diminish with our diminishing consciousness levels...and we try forever to fill up the vaccuums...we need to work on that consciousness levels to enhance our capacities to savour joy and the aesthetics which are a given...
Posted by on January 20, 2006 07:03 AM
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Sundar what a lovely piece. Truly life is about diversity and variety and a celebration of it. That was very well said. Truly blogs like these are just a micro cosm (isnt everything) of the macro cosm and we celebrate all diversity and differences here as well. So here's to celebrating uniqueness.