*We miss our dear earth’s song* [image: http://brainwagon.org/images/earth.gif] The earth sings. Our dear earth sings for her loving beings, her creation of yores. The melody that can neither be described nor can be composed on a keyboard. It is the music of the earth, immeasurable, unfathomable, the sound of silence.
The earth sings a song that comes along with her birth. She still sings as she swirls around her axis, a sweet silent song. Amidst the resplendent beauty of nature, the forest, earth’s most perfect and profound creation joins the melody. Thus begins the music of the forest with the rising sun. Morning’s cool breeze passes through the rustling leaves with a gentle soothing sound. The earth has woken up from her deep sleep. The deep and dark night has passed away. There is light everywhere. The sun rises up and the great forest orchestra suddenly springs up from an old banyan tree. Hundreds of birds, chirping and twittering; the buzzing and humming of the insects reverberate all around. The animals stand thunderstruck and look aghast at the great musical extravaganza of the forest. The day of the forest begins. The mountain stream flows down like a dancing forest belle spraying splashing and splattering water all along, impatient to merge with her beloved darling the lake. On its crystal clear water swans leisurely float, a heavenly scene. The whistling ducks fly over the forest sky in a ‘V’ formation, the beauty of nature. The forest folk are out singing their morning lore. Smoke from the thatched houses slowly rises up and floats above. The crackling sound of the fuel wood fire from the chullah along with the silent music of the boiling rice, a heavenly treat of nature’s splendour. After the hot summer comes the bursting dark cloud, moving in a great speed, darkens the whole sky followed by frequent flashes of lightning, the deafening thunder, the drizzling and splattering of rain… … the sound of the earth coming from everywhere nowhere, the sabda brahma, the sacred sound. The calm sea on the other side suddenly wakes up. Showing its anger and unhappiness breaks down. The angry sea swells and surges ahead with a great speed, spews forth foam all along the beach and hits the shore with all its blind fury as if to engulf everything on its way. The fury can be equated with the dance of Shiva or the vibrating matter that proceeds according to its own law. I stood in wonder on the Puri beach when the angry sea hit the eastern islands in the Indian Ocean… the great tsunami. It appears as if all the water in the sea was sucked up leaving the sea bed bare open to a distance of about a kilometre. The earth’s orchestra doesn’t end here. The sacred sound from the hymn and prayers, beating of drums, ringing of bells, tinkling of anklets, sound of gong and cymbals, blowing of conches, playing the flutes, sound everywhere from the altar of gods, on the streets in villages and cities, orchestra of thousand bina of Ravi Shankar followed by beating of drums, the symphony of Indian music… the Sabda Brahma. Sound occupies an important place in the life of Indians. For us Indians sound is sacred. The world fails to understand why Indians are so vocal, why there is sound everywhere. A tourist from a western country while returning was asked what did she like most in India. “It is sound I like most” was her prompt reply. [image: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/200709/20070914ho_seacrest_500.jpg] Sriram Savarkar © Hinduism is more a way of life than a method of worship. Dharmo Rakshati Rakshithaha If you protect Dharma, Dharma will in turn protect you. Hindus, If people slap you once, slap them twice! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OWNER : [email protected]; [!! Sriram Savarkar ¡¡] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sriram Savarkar" group. To modify your list subscription, please send a blank email to: For posting Messages: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] Visit Group : http://groups.google.com/group/sriram-savarkar?hl=en
