Midnight Media Cafe - Praan
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Today's Writer's Block question:
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Praan - Gary Schyman
Featuring the glorious voice of Palbasha Siddique
Adapted from a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Here is a translation:
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
This song never fails to fill my heart and lift my spirits. The video images are a great match to the lyrics.
The kinds of emotions that deeply religious people feel in their temples and synagogues, I feel in nature. Walking among redwoods; gazing at mountains; tasting the spray of the ocean and dancing on the sand; marveling at birds and butterflies, snakes and coyotes, bears and wolves; working the soil and loving the plants in my garden - these experiences fill me with intense spiritual rapture. My religious feelings and emotions are deeply tied to what Carl Sagan called "the numinous" - the experience of the natural world and the universe as inherently sacred in and of itself. My gods do not live outside or above the world; they are the world. I see the Earth as my mother in a very literal sense, and feel myself her daughter just as much as I am my human mother's daughter. This song embodies all of that for me, and much more, because besides expressing thoughts and words, music itself contains a dimension of emotion and insight whose currents and patterns can never be wholly translated but only felt, a river within which the soul swims towards the ocean of the universe.
Today's Writer's Block question:
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Praan - Gary Schyman
Featuring the glorious voice of Palbasha Siddique
Adapted from a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Here is a translation:
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
This song never fails to fill my heart and lift my spirits. The video images are a great match to the lyrics.
The kinds of emotions that deeply religious people feel in their temples and synagogues, I feel in nature. Walking among redwoods; gazing at mountains; tasting the spray of the ocean and dancing on the sand; marveling at birds and butterflies, snakes and coyotes, bears and wolves; working the soil and loving the plants in my garden - these experiences fill me with intense spiritual rapture. My religious feelings and emotions are deeply tied to what Carl Sagan called "the numinous" - the experience of the natural world and the universe as inherently sacred in and of itself. My gods do not live outside or above the world; they are the world. I see the Earth as my mother in a very literal sense, and feel myself her daughter just as much as I am my human mother's daughter. This song embodies all of that for me, and much more, because besides expressing thoughts and words, music itself contains a dimension of emotion and insight whose currents and patterns can never be wholly translated but only felt, a river within which the soul swims towards the ocean of the universe.
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Date: Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 11:49 am (UTC)