Dohar [contd]

Mahatma Gandhi went to Badarpur{Barak Valley}accompanied by Ali Brothers to tell the ordinary people about the the hateful sickness of the society untouchability.Then the British Government immediately built the roads and upgraded the railway station .So the ladies of Badarpur wrote a song wnd it became quite famous.

it goes like this....Gandhi baro luk go Gandhi baro luk .
Ego Gandhi Raja disey sarak ,
jal bharibar shukh......

Small happiness of village ladies because the task to carry water for the family was on them .So "Gandhi Raja disey sarak jal bhoribar sukh".......


to be contd

Shree

Dohar [contd]

Moymonsingha Geetika:

Dohar sang a part of it where Noder Chand [son of the Zamindar] got the chance of meeting Mohua ,the gypsy girl in the water banks where she goes to fill water.
.......Noder Chand says Jal bharo Sundari Koinya jaley dish ne dheu........amar sathey kaona katha amar nai keu......
water bank is famous for such sweet talks but Mohua says Noder Chand should die by drowning himself.........Then he says ....Tumi hao gaheen gang ...ami duibya mori.....
Moymonsingha Geetika is a great work but alas written by a mere folk writer so it has not been given much importance by the so called literary world.If we could give some love and recognition to our folk singers and song writers.........I wonder.

Dhamayil:

Dhamayil is mostly sung by the womenfolk of the village.Mostly they sing Krishna Dhamayil where the love between Krishna and Radha is described.
The song which Dohar sang for us has an interesting background.......year 1921 mahatma Gandhi

Dohar a bangla band sings folksongs of eastern India and Bangladesh

After a long gap of few years Dohar came back to us ........sang songs of Hashon Raja ,Lalon Fakir and the most impressive one is a song written by Abdul Karim who is 90+ and lives in a village in Sunamgunj[Bangladesh]

The most lovely thing Abdul Karim Saab says and believes that very soon a day will come when this world will be the world of and for Bauls[i don't have exact English equivalent of Baul,they are the singing minstrels of Bengal those who believe in the oneness of God and His unending love for us mortals]

All the classical music has a 'gharana 'whereas the folksongs have a'bahiriyana' that is the songs are mostly sung outside in the fields,while they are fishing,sowing paddy or simply racing boats for example Baich,Sari gaan ,Murshidi gaan,Bhatiyali,Bihu,Gajon er gaan,Dhamayil,Goalparia gaan,Bhayoaiya-chatka gaan,Jhumur and the songs written by the Fakirs and Bauls of Bengal are really extremely meaningful and and deeply God loving.They believe in the oneness of God the Beloved.

Folksongs have a quality which could be compared with flowing river........it changes its course ,language and becomes more and more deep in its meaning ...
I must congratulate...Kalikaproshad,Tarun,Rajiv,Niranjanda,Shomnath,Chhotu,Mrigonavi for singing such beautiful songs ......Yes we love them and want them to sing more and more for us.
I will write about each type of songs in detail later.
Gyan manch atmosphere was electrifying.all of us were singing and clapping with the singers.THey have excellent rapport with the audience.Shabash and Shukriya Dohar for giving us such a lovely evening......


To be contd.


Shree

Inspiration

"When you are inspired by some great purpose,some extraordinary project ,
all your thoughts break their bonds:your mind transcendents limitation,your conciousness expands in every direction,and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces ,faculties and talents become alive,and you discover yourself to be a great person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be"

Patanjali[the father of yoga]


thanks to Ajaysingniranjan

Shree

In His time

In His time,in His time
He makes all things beautiful in His time
O Lord show me everyday,
as You're teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say in Your time.

In Your time,in Your time,
You make all things meaningful in Your time,
O Beloved my life to You I bring,
With its winter and its spring,
May I fathom everything in Your time.

There's a time,there's a time
Both for sowing and for reaping,there's time
Time for giving ,time for gain,
Time for joy and time for pain,
Every purpose under heaven has a time.


There are time ,there are days
Weeks and months we can't understand His ways,
If for years we fail to scan
What is His eternal plan,
We'll remember that He can,all the time.


Theme taken from a Bangla hymn


Shree

Celebrate differences

Often people say they are upset that life is full of contradictions.
But life is not so small that we can put it into compartments like good and bad,right and wrong,
black and white or evil and noble.
Life is vast,so vast that it is big enough to include contradictions in its fold.
One has to accept them gracefully and at the same time change whatever is possible.
We have to learn to accept what cannot be changed.
While we were discussing differences,let us also accept the fact that the context of a relationship should be one of love and not of expectations.
Love has to go through transformation and purification.
Only then would we find that we are bigger than our differences.
One should be creative in a relationship
Learn to enjoy the differences.
The most important aspect in a relationship is that we should stand for inner growth and not of ego.
We can operate either for personality or from innocence.
Personality come from ego while innocence comes from childlike nature.
That which arises out of ego makes one feel heavy whereas what arises out of childlike innocence
makes one feel light.
When we operate from innocence our logic will have a different lustre,our understanding would have a different aura.It becomes divine.
Life is an adventure---get into it
Life is a struggle--make it sacred
Life is a tragedy--grow from it
Life is a beauty--feel it
Life is a bliss--experience it

(Taken from Swami Sukhabodhananda's article)

Kashmiri Shaivaites

According to the school of Kashmiri Shaivaites entitled Spanda,the central role for a human devotee is not played by Shiva but by the Shakti.This is not paradoxicalbecause in the spiritual vision of Shaivism ,Shiva and Shakti are not two separate realities.
Shiva and Shakti are two in oneand they seem separate only for the ignorant and limited mindthat is subjectedto duality.

In truth Shiva is Shakti and Shakti is Shiva,when we have conciousness,there is energy.
When we have energy there is conciousness,who animates that energy.
Therefore for the aspirant to spiritual liberation,the instrument[path]is Shakti
and not Shiva.
Shiva is the trancendent aspect of the divine being ,beyond any mental representation.
anything we could imagine about Shiva is not Shiva because Shiva cannot be defined,cannot be thought,cannot be revoked.
The tale about Shiva splitting into two halves of male and female indicates the origin of Ardhanarishwar
the union of spirit of material,the Being and its force.He is above spirit and material.
Shiva is also described as Anaadi[without beginning/birth] and Ananta[without end/death].


Shree