Author Topic: Songs that inspire us along the way.... (Read 11804 times)

chit-ananda51 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 09, 2012, 03:00:02 AM »

Morning has broken - Cat Stevens

This song is special as it reminds me of a spiritual mentor who passed into Spirit a year back..!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0TInLOJuUM&feature=related

Shanti · « **Reply #16 on:** February 09, 2012, 03:24:46 AM »

Ananda, love the song Ah Jaa Tenu Akhiyan Udeek Diyan ~ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Someone has suggested this song fits a painting of mine so I had posted the song along with the painting...
http://the-journey-inward.blogspot.com/2011/01/bride.html

chit-ananda51, what a lovely song...
"Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day"

Ananda · « **Reply #17 on:** February 09, 2012, 04:01:11 AM »

Ahhh Yes[

] I stumbled into that song on your website sometime ago[

] Totally forgot[:I]

gatito · « **Reply #18 on:** February 09, 2012, 07:48:34 AM »

The story about Deva Premal and her father is true: -

http://www.devapremalmiten.com/articles/my-journey-with-the-gayatri-mantra

"When my mother was pregnant with me, their welcome was to sing the Gayatri Mantra throughout the pregnancy."

"I feel so grateful that I could be there until the moment of his death. We were singing the Gayatri Mantra to him until the end and so the circle is complete: He accompanied the beginning of my life with it and I the ending of his. I am also very touched by my family...how they were all joining Miten and I with the singing for him and how we are totally in tune with each other about how to deal with everything now..."

And here are a couple more to add to the list

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Yo-Yo Ma - Bach Cello Suites (Sorry no links)
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone (extract):- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XISBJ-MJ0HI

Makes me cry with happiness (in the right circumstances

)

Shanti · « **Reply #19 on:** February 10, 2012, 12:58:23 AM »

That is beautiful Gatito. Played it while I worked on my new painting yesterday... very inspiring...

Thank you.

Shanti · « **Reply #20 on:** February 10, 2012, 01:00:50 AM »

This is a song we sang during assembly at school. I loved it then, but love it even more now...

This is a prayer I sing to Ma very often...
This is all I would like to be in this life... a channel of her peace....

Susan Boyle - Make me a channel of your peace :
http://youtu.be/jOvQLMfppN8

Lyrics:

Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love,
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
And where there's doubt true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there's sadness, ever joy.

O Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love with all my soul!

Make me a channel of your peace:
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Shanti · « **Reply #21 on:** February 10, 2012, 01:51:48 AM »

This is another song we sang during assembly at school. It is one of my favorite Hindi prayer song :

The lyrics to the song meant a lot then, but mean so much more now.
http://youtu.be/Bqx8NlEQu94

Translation of the Hindi lyrics:

(God) Give us the strength, to win over our minds
Before we try to gain victory over others, let us gain victory over ourselves (mind).

Let us free our hearts of discrimination.
If anyone has wronged us, let us be able to forgive them.
Keep us away from lies and always be in touch with truth.

Before we try to gain victory over others, let us gain victory over ourselves (mind).

If we find ourselves in a difficult situation, please grant us this favor,
Let us not forget what is sacred and give us the strength to stay with the sacred,
Help us stay confident of the self and not give in to fear.

Before we try to gain victory over others, let us gain victory over ourselves (mind).

maheswari · « **Reply #22 on:** February 10, 2012, 04:10:46 AM »

quote:
Before we try to gain victory over others, let us gain victory over ourselves (mind).

such a good way to educate kids at school!....putting the seed of viveka (discrimination) in them...lovely[

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gatito · « **Reply #23 on:** February 10, 2012, 06:51:07 AM »

quote:
Originally posted by Shanti

Played it while I worked on my new painting yesterday... very inspiring...

It's really good to think that this music went into one of your paintings.

karl · « **Reply #24 on:** February 10, 2012, 07:19:46 AM »

I think that a song got me on this journey, it was only later that I began to see a link.

Lateralus by Tool

Artist: Tool
Lateralus Lyrics

Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
reaching out to me, lets me see.
As below so above and beyond I imagine,
drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing,
separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
reaching out to me, lets me see.
There is so much more and it beckons me to look though to these,
infinite possibilities.
As below so above and beyond I imagine,
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing,
separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind.

Feed my will to feel this moment, urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

I embrace my desire to...
I embrace my desire to...
feel the rhythm,
to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow,
to feel inspired,
to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral,
to swing on the spiral,
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground,
I lose myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me,
whatever will bewilder me.

And following our will and wind,
we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.

------ Performed by Tool

Shanti · « **Reply #25 on:** February 10, 2012, 11:15:45 AM »

That was the beauty of growing up in India, Maheswari. I never realized how much we we were taught to work first on ourselves before we worked on others. And mind you, I studied in a Catholic school. But it was OK to sing Indian prayer songs right after we said " Our father in heaven".

Gatito, my next painting is a vision I had, and the music just made the paints flow... Thank you so much for it.

Karl, very impressive song/lyrics. Here is a link to it for anyone who would like to hear it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Ananda · « **Reply #26 on:** February 10, 2012, 04:29:18 PM »

Hail Tool[

]

Thanks Karl! I've missed listening to tool myself... I am a big fan of theirs...

karl · « **Reply #27 on:** February 10, 2012, 07:27:51 PM »

For those of a mathematical disposition. The song was written around the golden ratio, or Fibbonacci sequence.

It's interesting how music crosses continents.

maheswari · « **Reply #28 on:** February 10, 2012, 08:05:23 PM »

yes music is universal...it touches the heart of humans regardless of languages

Swan · « **Reply #29 on:** February 12, 2012, 02:04:18 AM »

Thank you and namaskar to all you wonderful people for coming up with such a nice post ...

quote:
Originally posted by Shanti

Here is one more that touches my heart...

Khwaja Mere Khwaja
http://youtu.be/3dG2FK3_NfQ

Shanti, this song knocks to my sleepy heart also.. great to know that you guys also like it. Is it only I think or they really indicated that Akbar was an awakened person and had an opening during this song as shown in the video? well I readily believed it as Akbar was one of the greatest ruler with an open heart and views which were ahead by centuries if not timeless.

one more in the similar line by A R Rahman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYnZj-EvL4

The song goes on saying that:

'whoever has come to your door to bow to you ... all got drunk from love and kept waving ... they came with great thirst in their heart and got treated with no less than a sea ... they kept soaking in the shower of light...'

'I used to get an aroma, I used to get totally lost in it and kept trying to find the source ... when I came to your door, I saw the truth and realized that it is coimng from within me, which you have ignited.'

Another favorite of mine, which I like to play when I do asana - it is from the movie matrix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOtoIBrBAYE

Let us all soak in the rain of light ...

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Author Topic: Songs that inspire us along the way.... (Read 11804 times)