tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52071418831269006552011-11-28T06:46:12.425+05:30The pieces of the Puzzle - MeAv - Optimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06240659767537879448noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207141883126900655.post-68489574238858067502007-12-19T21:22:00.000+05:302007-12-19T21:23:17.020+05:30<p>This is a song which had probably come to me by a blessing. I can't describe in words what this song means to me. This song came to me through my brother. although a Tamilian, I was never very good at understanding the language (something that I repent even now) especially the songs. So when my brother blessed me by giving me this song, I fell entirely in love with the music not understanding a word of the song.<br /><br />Just as I was crooning in the beauty of the song, my dad told me it was a popular<br />"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnatic_Music">Carnatic</a>" Song. It was then that it struck me that my Mom would not only know the song but also what the words meant.<br /><br />Hence began my first tryst with the depth of this graceful song. Alaipayuthae, the word means Ripples. The following is the literal translation of the song. Thanks to Karthik Ram Ramakrishnan who was gracious enough to include this literal translation on <a href="http://rkram.blogspot.com/2006/08/alaipayuthey.html">his blog</a>, from which I have so gracelessly snatched it.<br /><br />God Bless, Hope you like it!<br /><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Alaipayuthae - </span><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: italic;">My mind ripples, O! Kanna,<br />the joyous bewitching song of your flute.<br />my mind ripples, O! Kanna!<br />with your entrancing song<br /><br />An unmoving statue I stand<br />time flies by and I know it not<br />Muraleedhara, the unknowable<br />my mind ripples<br /><br />The clear moon blazes as a noon sun<br />my eyebrows arch, searching the horizon<br />the breeze brings your ripe melody<br />and my eyes dizzy, i feel strange<br /><br />Delight me by granting the place in your difficult heart,<br />embrace mine, gift it sense and make it bloom<br />like the ray of the sun that merges with the roaring waves of the ocean<br />like the anklets in union, make merry<br /><br />I call you thus with my heart wrenching cries<br />and you, you revel with other women.<br />Is this right? Is it proper?<br />Is it at all just?<br /><br />While the flute plays, like the dancing foliage<br />my mind laden with sorrow<br />ripples, my Kanna, it ripples<br />with your joyously bewitching song </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5207141883126900655-6848957423885806750?l=avkanand.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Av - Optimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06240659767537879448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207141883126900655.post-15857197726705250942007-12-19T21:19:00.000+05:302007-12-19T21:21:53.883+05:30<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">|| Asato Ma Sad Gamaya,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya ||</span><br /></div><br />Everytime I look at these lines or reiterate them in my mind, there is still that one thought that makes me question existence; Is this the Eternal Quest? I have dreamt of being God, and the more I question myself the more I find reason of why I should be.<br /><br />God - I have always looked at this word with such awe, such might and such respect. But recently I had lost out on this focus. This focus of being God, in my trivial and selfish pursuit I was being just another man.<br /><br />I had concentrated on this word God over just one conversation. I never thought how this conversation would end my world, or rather begin my life.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5207141883126900655-1585719772670525094?l=avkanand.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Av - Optimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06240659767537879448noreply@blogger.com0