Moments of Bliss 2 - Music that literally melts....

Hi Gowri

Today I have been to a marrriage reception - relatives of Anoo - at Palavanthaangal straight from office....The hall was quite close to Railway station and I could reach it without any hassles where Madhoo and Anoo had come straight from home......!! My dear Gentleman (Sadhguru) stared at me with my monalisa smile just outside the hall main entrance through a poster...

Looks like they have Isha classes in this Marriage hall...I have heard that there is a good band of volunteers at Nanganallur...In fact my last volunteering was in March and I have never volunteered after the New syllabus class which I attended during May.....To be very honest, I am no more a Isha Volunteer as of now though I joined their Dhyana Yatra Tour...and I think I have completed my innings as a volunteer.....!! (thats going to be my next musing !!)

Inspite of this, when I met his eyes, it took some time for me to take my eyes off him and was calmed down inside which I could clearly see....I had already done my Shoonya at office and we could have walked to the Dining Hall straight as it was around 8.30...There was Light Music going on in the finishing stages and I wanted to hear couple of songs as the instruments were well kept and optimally audible (there was a hospital near by and the Lead announced some time after a song that they deliberately are playing cool as the Hospital had requested them)

I belonged to the bride's side and looks like the Groom was born and brought up at Mumbai...a group of 1 dozen uncles from mumbai, all of them in (three piece) coat & suit started dancing holding their hands to a Hindi Classic of 70's....stunning the whole crowd....!! they were all 50 + in age and some of their wives too joined in typical culture they were all brought in...

I was observing them and the shocked Madhoo calmly and really enjoying the wonderful song....once the song is over, the lead of the troupe (a young boy perhaps around 27 - 28) came to the stage and sang a wonderful Hind song understanding the taste of the group that was dancing....(I dont remember the words exactly but I have heard this quite famous song couple of times....."Chupke chupke....magazhzhzh.....!!" - is it Kishore kumar's film ?? not too sure)... The song was simply mesmerising and it got magnfied with that young boy who was singing it with eyes closed and really rendering it from his soul.....

I started feeling the moistness in my eyes and got so involved with this song and did not even feel like getting up for dinner...After a thunderous applause, the Boy started the famous song of "BILLA" - I am not sure if he sang the original one or the remixed one....(engeeyum eppodum...sangeetham....santhosham...). Already in a extra ordinary state, this song moved inside me like a huge eruption and I was also feeling parellelly ashamed why I never heard this song properly earlier....particularly the music at the end of the repeated first two lines...."dan dan dan .....dan dan dandan" resembling the famous punnagavaraali raagam (aadu paambe vilaiyaadu paambe !!"

such a wonderful song got ended after few timeless minutes and I was getting up walking towards the Dining Hall quite mechanically....!! It was like a big meditation session and you are left with absolutely no excitement about any thing if you get dissolved....!! Good that the food was buffet and I just got the freedom to serve very little Bisibela bath and curd rice only without frittering myself away in too many items when they serve the food....

While I scribble down this great moment in our e-diary (is it eternal diary ??), I do clearly see that its not music that melts human beings....its just our own receptivity levels which does the magic....!!

I could have even felt the depth of the music in some other song which I consider ordinary when I get into this mood.....!! For that matter, it was truely a great day today when I discovered the wonder of this Rajni's stylish song that was a mass hit....!! (I also like his Shamboo shiva shamboo....jagamee mandiram...very much...sort of mystical voice of MSV)

suchoo