Sangeetham...

...to Sannidhi

Music, oh what a lovely thing it does. It gathers and integrates the being of the singer and the attentive listener. Gathers the body, gathers the wavering mind, together like a flickering flame and noiselessly, quietly, without stress and strain, takes that flame into the expanseless light, which is also dark. The sound of music leads to the silence divine where God resides.
During one of my assignments I happened to listen to a concert by T.V. Sankaranarayanan. It was a state of Samadhi to drop all my wants, desires, worries or thoughts and just become immobile behind closed eyes and just be.
As he was singing, I realised music takes both the singer and the listener to the highest state of being. They realise God. He was singing a kriti called Surya Murte and in that moment's absorbtion and cheer of listening to the music at night time, this verse followed:
Enlightenment

When there is
Darkness
On the Earth
The Sun shines
Brightly as ever
In the skies
So far awat
The brilliant stars
Burn themselves
Bright as ever
And Ever
In a Universe
Where there is no
Darkness.
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I was just listening to a Raga Alapana and I wrote this piece on what or rather who is a Raga.
Raga

In the fields of
Silence
Ragas are the roads
That go smooth
sometimes
Become flowing water
Fall like rapids and cataracts
Or crash like waves
On the shore
Like climbing a mountain
Sun beating down
And sweat on the brow
Trickling
Drop by drop[
Opening out gently
Like a flower
Raga is the goddess
Who takes the one
Who sings
And the one who listens
To that unseen
Called and wondered about
As God.
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