They Sing Your Song

Monday, 23 October 2017

When a women in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant . she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child.

They recognize that every soul has its own vibration that expresses its unique flavour and purpose. When the women attune to the song. They sing it out loud. Then they return to the tribe and teach it to everyone else.

When the child is born, the community gathers and sings the child’s song to him or her. Later when the child enters education, the village gathers and chants the child’s song . When the child passes though the initiation to adulthood the people again come together and sing. At the time of marriage, the person hears his or her song.

Finally when the soul is about to pass from this worlds the family and friends gather at the person’s bed, just as they did at the person’s birth and they sing the person to the next life.

To the African tribe there is one other occasion during which the village sing to the child. If at anytime during his or her life the person commits a crime or aberrant social act the individual is called to the centre of the village and the people in the community from a circle around the person . then they sing their song to him/her.

The tribe recognizes that the correction for anti-social behaviour is not punishment, it is love and the remembrance of identity .when you recognize your own song .you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.

A friend is someone who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it, . those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when your beauty when feel ugly, your wholeness when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding yo when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn’t in the end we shall all recognize our song and sing it well.

You may feel a little , warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers . just keep singing an you will find your way home.

-Alan Cohen in the book Wisdom of the Heart

Quote from the True Charm ands power of Vedanta

Nevertheless most of us tend to judge religion-whether subjectively or objectively- by some sort of pragmatic test, by its practical efficacy of pragmatic test, but its practical efficacy in reference to human aspirations and needs.  

Perhaps the highest expression of this pattern of thought was given in the epic Mahabarata . In the Santiparva of Mahabharata, the grandsire Bhishma said Dharma is also so called because it a maintains all creatures in fact all creatures are kept up by Dharma. Therefore Dharma is what is capable of upholding all creatures.

Some say that Dharma is the injunction of the Srutis. Others  do not agree to this I would not blame them that say so, Everything, again, has not began described in the Srutis

The beauty and excellence of this definition of Dharma is that al rational human beings of goodwill, no matter of what religion or of no religion, can meet on this platform of universal growth, advancement , security and fulfilment. This much needed meeting ground of all believers and non-believers has always been there from at least the time since Bhisma defined Dharma in this most acceptable manner.

True religion defend this way is surely going to help us always and everywhere. In fact if we examine Bhishma’s definition we will be inclined to agree that growth advancement in the right direction protection from injury and the upholding and maintenance of all , are simply not possible without the help of true religion.

And if we analyse the real issues of our lives, we shall find that the basic requirements are just these; real growth, advancement, protection from injury, and maintenance , leading to self-fulfilment.

Life is important not only because through living alone we come to realize all its values , life si the most vibrant divine principle that sustains the universe. The Lord says in the Gita. ‘Life in all beings am I Reverence for all life is another name of the worship of God. But i must not forget the divine principle that is in me also deserve my worship. How do i do that? By not desecrating myself. By arising and awaking and not stopping till the goal is reached. But how often we prefer sleeping to arising dozing off to awaking standing to moving ahead. We disregard time by taking life for grunted. We sanctimoniously delude ourselves with the thought that we shall do better when we are better.

But, if He exists?

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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