Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Gita Yajna in Mungaru Male

I was getting back home late evening after a hectic day in office. Post Shivaratri, summer was slowly stabilising its position and I was feeling extra hot.
As usual to other days, I started navigating multiple FM stations to cheer up my mood. Decided to settle on 'FM rainbow' as the RJ was discussing about 'Mungaaru Male' meaning 'Monsoon rains' thinking this may give some respite from the scorching heat. This brought memories of childhood days in Shimoga, heart of Malnad. There were incessant rains during monsoon called 'Jadi male' in kannada. Jackfruit pappadams were our family's favourite snack that went with the pouring rains. Mungaaru Male is the recent blocbuster all across 'Karunadu' and I got fully tuned to hear one of its popular title song.
'Mungaaru maleye, enu ninna hanigala leele'
'olava chandamama, naguta banda manadangalake'
'preeti belakinalli, Hridaya horatide meravanige'
'Avala Premaduurina kadege, preeti payanavo'
'Mungaaru maleye, enu ninna hanigala leele'
Wow! Kudos to the lyricist. This is heart rendering lyrics after many years in Kannada film industry. Drawing parallels from romance to Monsoon rains, a new breakthrough in romantic poetry? I couldn’t help but stop at 'Music world' to get the music CD.
Beyond gross enjoyment, there is plane of emotional pleasure involving fine feelings. We experience different flavors of emotions based on relationships. Poetry helps us to intensify our emotional experiences and thus enhance relationship. Beautiful phenomenon in nature are expressions of Nature romancing its creator. Be it the waves of ocean jumping to embrace the moon or the embrace of earth by early morning sunrays in winter. Poetry is all about relating human emotions to nature's love for its creator. Nature has fallen in love and is in an ocean of bliss romancing the creator. Prakrti is feminine and an expansion of the primal female energy (Sri Radha). Can we learn from nature to romance and fall in love with our ultimate creator? Is this the message of the Gita? Is this Bhakti? Is this why it is said 'Country side is made by God and city is made by man'? My mind went towards the 10th chapter of the Gita where Sri Krishna('Ultimate creator') elaborates how to find him in various natural phenomenon. Following are some of them

Of the Adityas I am Visnu, of lights I am the radiant sun, I am Marici of the Maruts, and among the stars I am the moon.
Of horses know Me to be Uccaihsrava, who rose out of the ocean, born of the elixir of immortality; of lordly elephants I am Airavata, and among men I am the monarch.
Know that all beautiful, glorious, and mighty creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.
But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe.
Of the great sages I am Bhrgu; of vibrations I am the transcendental om. Of sacrifices I am the chanting of the holy names [japa], and of immovable things I am the Himalayas.

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