Tuesday, 26 January 2016

The Rickety-Bridge on varuṇā

The rickety-bridge on varuṇā
जे.कृष्णमूर्ति से जुड़े एक व्यक्ति से मिलना हुआ । मेरे हम-उम्र होने से हमारे बीच बातचीत की संभावनाएँ और तालमेल था । 

"हम भले ही किसी को पढ़ते रहें किसी की प्रशंसा करें या नापसन्द करें, भीतर से हम न तो किसी को छू पाते हैं न छू सकते हैं न कोई हमें ।"
वह नपे-तुले शब्दों में बोला । 
गंगा में मिलती हुई वरुणा चुपचाप हमें सुन रही थी । उसके उपर बना कच्चा पुल जिस पर से लोग आ-जा रहे थे, जीर्ण-शीर्ण होने पर भी इतना मजबूत तो था ही कि आनेवाली बरसात तक काम देता रहे । हर बरसात में उसे ध्वस्त हो जाना होता है और पुल को बनाने और उसकी देखभाल करनेवाले अक्सर स्वयं ही बारिश शुरु होने से पहले ही, अंतिम दिनों तक इसका उपयोग हो जाने के बाद इसे तोड़ देते हैं, इसकी लकड़ी की बल्लियाँ और खंभे, तख़्ते, बाँस, रस्सियाँ आदि समेटकर सहेज लेते हैं । पुल शायद "वासांसि जीर्णानि ..." को स्मरण कर खुशी-खुशी अपने आमूल-परिवर्तन को स्वीकार कर लेता होगा । 
हम उस जगह पहुँच चुके थे जिसे ’सन्सेट-पॉइन्ट’ कहते हैं । वरुणा के किनारे, किनारे से दूर कुछ ऊँची जगह जहाँ वरुणा कभी नहीं पहुँचती; -बरसात में गंगा द्वारा लील लिये जाने पर भी, शायद ही कभी वहाँ तक पहुँचती हो । कहा जाता है कि अगर गंगा वहाँ पहुँच जाए तो काशी जलमग्न हो जाएगा, जो कि असंभव है । 
काशी, जो बस राजघाट से लगा ही है ।
"अगर कोई किसी वज़ह से अपना कौमार्य गँवा बैठे तो यह उतना दुःखद नहीं होता जितना कि सरलता को खो बैठना।"
सुनकर मैं अपनी हँसी रोक न सका।  
'Sir, This is not laughing matter!'
यह एक वाक्य था जिसे जे. कृष्णमूर्ति कभी कभी कहा करते थे।  
"हाँ, मैं समझता हूँ। "
मैंने कहा। 
"कौमार्य तो भूल से, किसी के प्रलोभन या बल-प्रयोग से भी खो सकता है, लेकिन सरलता को कोई आपसे छीन नहीं सकता।"
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उस पहली मुलाक़ात में हम इतनी ही बातें कर थे। 
सुना है वरुणा बहुत दूषित हो गई है, उम्मीद है अगली बरसात तक साफ़ हो जाएगी।  मैं नहीं जानता कि वह गंगा में मिलकर उतनी साफ़ बनी रहेगी ?
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Met a man interested in J.Krishnamurti's teachings. Being in the same age-group we instantly became friends and could talk well.
"Though we may read and appreciate one, hardly he could ever touch our inner being or we of him."
He remarked in calculated words.  
varuṇā, the tributary of Ganges was listening our talks silently without making a fuss. The rickety-bridge they build every year after the rains are over, had though a tattered look, it could well serve the people who tread over it, for crossing the river. Before every rainy season, they dismantle the bridge and get the wood-logs, the flat wooden pieces, bamboo and the ropes and preserve the same for the next season.
May be according to "वासांसि जीर्णानि ...", the bridge might have felt no sad over being lost this perishable body. May be it knew well and was prepared for the 
'Radical Transformation',
J. Krishnamurti occasionally referred to.
We reached at the top of the land where they say; J.Krishnamurti used to watch the 'sun-set'. This land quite up and well above the river-bank, was so high, varuṇā even if in spate, could never have thought of touching it. And Ganges, too couldn't because This was 'Kashi' Shiva's very abode, and Ganges reaching here meant the whole world will be inundated under it. And that is almost impossible until Shiva desires.
'Kashi' is just adjoining area to Rajghat Fort, Varanasi, the location of Krishnamurti Study Center.
"If some-one loses his / her virginity because of reasons, beyond circumstances beyond one's control, because of innocence, or being forced / cajoled to do so, that is not as much grievous as losing the simplicity, the innocence one has when one is born in the world."
He added.
I couldn't stop laughing.
'Sir! This is not laughing matter!' 
He admonished me in a tone that reminded me of J.Krishnamurti.
"Yes, ... yes I see!"
" You see your virginity could be snatched away from you at gun-point or by coercion,  or enticement, but no one could ever snatch your innocence your simplicity. that is your Freedom."
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In that first meeting we talked this much only.
I hear varuṇā has been much polluted, and hope will purify, make clear itself in the forth-coming rains. Though I am not sure how pure it would stay after joining Ganges.
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सर्वभाषास्तवनं / sarvabhāṣāstavanaṃ

सर्वभाषास्तवनं / sarvabhāṣāstavanaṃ  
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अङ्गं गलितम् यस्य तदाङ्ग्लम् 
पलितं मुण्डं यस्य स पलितः ।
इतिवेतिलीये विरूपे इतिलीया 
स्फुरणात्स्फीते असौ च स्फिनिशः । 
दैन्याद्दैत्यो यद्दैनदात्यित्सः
ऋषेर्प्रणीता ऋषीया सा ॥
चिह्नो विचिह्नो मन्दारिन्-सिनीया,
प्रांशुः तदैव प्रांशीया भवेत् ॥
अर्वण-मरु-निकषा अरुवीया मरुद्भिः
परषु-परशोर्भूत्वा पारसीया विजाता ॥
मूषः पप्रच्छ यदा गणेशो इत्युक्तवान् ।
ब्रूहि ब्रूहि विपरीतेन गृहीत्वा हिब्रू बभूव ॥ 
मलयपरिमलान्विता मलयाली वदन्ति ते 
त्रिलिङ्गेन गजकर्णेन त्रैलिंगी कर्णाटकी ॥
तमिलं शिववक्त्रं घोरमपि अघोरं तत् ।
द्राविडाभाषाः पुण्याः एतदर्थे चतस्रः ताः॥
उरूरीकृता उर्दू उत्तुंगा ऊर्जस्विता ।
अन्याः सर्वाः भाषाः लुप्ताः वा परिप्लुताः ॥
एतदर्थे बहुभाषासु संस्कृता एव प्रवर्तते ।
वेदभाषा देवभाषा इति बहुधा इङ्गिता ॥
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अर्थ :
जिसका स्वरूप विकृत है वह है आंग्ल (अंग्रेज़ी),
जिसका मुख पीत (पीला) है वह है ’पोलिश’
जो स्वरूप से अपरूपता में लीन हो गई वह है इतिलीया / इटैलियन,
स्फुरण से उद्भव और विस्तार को पानेवाली स्पैनिश,
दानवों और दैत्यों के द्वारा अपनाई गई ’डैनिश’ या ’ड्यूएट्श्’ (जर्मन)
ऋषियों के द्वारा प्रणीत रूसी,
चिह्न-लिपि से बननेवाली चीनी मन्दारिन् ,
और इसी प्रकार से प्र-आंशु > प्रांशु है फ़्रेन्च ।
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आलस्य के कारण शेष अनुवाद फिर कभी..  .. 
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सर्वभाषास्तवनं / sarvabhāṣāstavanaṃ  
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aṅgaṃ galitam yasya tadāṅglam 
palitaṃ muṇḍaṃ yasya sa palitaḥ ।
itiveti līye virūpe itilīyā 
sphuraṇātsphīte ca sphiniśaḥ ।
dainyāddaityo yaddainadātyitsaḥ
ṛṣerpraṇītā ṛṣīyā sā ॥
cihno vicihno vā mandārin-sinīyā,
prāṃśuḥ tadaiva prāṃśīyā bhavet ||
arvaṇa-marunikaṣā aruvīyā marudbhiḥ
paraṣu-paraśorbhūtvā pārasīyā vijātā ||
mūṣaḥ papraccha yadā gaṇeśo ityuktavān |
brūhi brūhi viparītena gṛhītvā hibrū babhūva || 
malayaparimalānvitā malayālī vadanti te 
triṅgena gajakarṇena trailiṅī karṇāṭakī ||
tamilaṃ śivavaktraṃ ghoramapi aghoraṃ tat |
drāviḍābhāṣāḥ puṇyāḥ etadarthe catasraḥ tāḥ||
urūrīkṛtā urdū uttuṃgā ūrjasvitā |
anyāḥ sarvāḥ bhāṣāḥ luptāḥ vā pariplutāḥ ||
etadarthe bahubhāṣāsu saṃskṛtā eva pravartate |
vedabhāṣā devabhāṣā iti bahudhā iṅgitā ||
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Monday, 25 January 2016

Creativity and Art.

Creativity and Art.
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The spirits esoteric, occult and mystic have their sway over consciousness associated with all beings. These spirits too are comprised of three core attributes / (संस्कृत > अवत्रिभूत / अत्रिभूत > saṃskṛta > avatribhūta / atribhūta) or गुण / guṇa of  प्रकृति  / प्रकृति, (सत्व रज तम / satva, raja, tama). In terms of 'consciousness' The 3 in fact play the role of core-factors that make apparently an individual to behave as an independent and different entity from the Whole and Total, Unique Consciousness Principle. 
This again forms a triangle which has a parallel in Physics as Light, Force / movement and inertia / darkness.
Thus the factor an undistinguished principle (संस्कृत > अवत्रिभूत / अत्रिभूत > saṃskṛta > avatribhūta / atribhūta) or गुण / guṇa of  प्रकृति / prakṛti, (सत्व रज तम / satva, raja, tama). causes the phenomenal manifestation as the expression of  Whole and Total, Unique Consciousness Principle. This Whole and Total, Unique Consciousness Principle exists on its own, independent of the 'other'. As there is no existence of the 'other', This Whole and Total Unique Consciousness Principle, has no contrast or parallel to be compared with. So this Principle though Unique of its own character could not be described as 'one' or 'many', because 'one' and / or 'many' as description are but terms sans essence / meaning. This is why it is termed अद्वैत / advaita  or ’Non-Duality-Principle. On the other hand, because सांख्य / sāṃkhya describes all that which is in the domain of प्रकृति / prakṛti,  in terms of 3 गुण / guṇa of  प्रकृति / prakṛti that form the basis of  प्रकृति / prakṛti . In other words,  प्रकृति / prakṛti  is its and 3 गुण / guṇa  and  3 गुण / guṇa are प्रकृति / prakṛti itself.
Accordingly, One who is devoted to any of the Art-form, or the Fine-Arts, often finds sometimes he / she has urge and the urge brings the energy and response to the urge. This very urge may be acquired as is mostly in the case of scholars / intellectuals who are prompted because of ambition and a longing for recognition or sense of working for some so-called lofty ideals, ideologies in the name of 'religion' or 'thought'. Sometimes These though may possess talent also, very often they are after social status of some kind, which ultimately kills all their Creativity whatever there was in the first stance.
On the other hand there are others like Scientists who are driven by the same force but their involvement in the process is so fascinating that they are often enraptured by their interest. They sometimes have some hidden desires and longings too, but that does neither exploit their Creativity nor pose obstructions to the same.
No doubt the orientation and temperament of their mind and social circumstances, cultural atmosphere also contributes to a great extent to this.
A painter or sculptor, a musician or a dancer are perhaps a lot of different kind.
They may have strong passions and swing and swifts of mood and that affects their work accordingly. Sometimes despite their other problems like money or health, they work hard for long hours, even for days on a single item, and occasionally keep it unfinished on hold for too long. This may take years. They start anew and afresh and discover newer inspirations from the work they had left half-way between.
This looks as if they are but driven by their 'destiny' or the one, who ordains their life. The painter paints the painting, but the painting too creates the painter. We see the sculpture but the sculpture is what creates the sculptor.
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Saturday, 23 January 2016

Triangles.

Workshop-Practice.
Triangles.
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तैत्तिरीय उपनिषद् / taittirīya upaniṣad
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शीक्षा वल्ली / śīkṣā vallī
--
द्वितीय अनुवाक / dvitīya anuvāka
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शीक्षां व्याख्यास्यामः ।
वर्णः स्वरः ।
मात्रा बलम् ।
साम संतानः ।
इत्युक्तः शीक्षाध्यायः ॥
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तैत्तिरीय उपनिषद् / taittirīya upaniṣad
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शीक्षा वल्ली / śīkṣā vallī
(Part-1, Section 2)
śīkṣāṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ |
varṇaḥ svaraḥ |
mātrā balam |
sāma saṃtānaḥ |
ityuktaḥ śīkṣādhyāyaḥ ||
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Now is enunciated  :
शीक्षा / śīkṣā
(Education / Teaching)
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Education comprises of :
Letters Sounds.
Entity Strength.
Essence Harmony / Continuity.
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मन्त्र तन्त्र यन्त्र / mantra tantra yantra
--
The Occult, The Esoteric, and The mystic,
have a parallel in ब्रह्म-विद्या / brahma-vidyā
(The Spiritual Wisdom)
मन्त्र तन्त्र यन्त्र / mantra tantra yantra
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mantra is The Occult, कलनं > kalanaṃ
 > अव कलित > ava kalita > Calculation.
tantra is The Esoteric > अव सतो इक् > ava sato ik
> अव सतः इक् >  ava sataḥ ik >
yantra is The Mystic. > मिथित > mithita > द्विचिह्नित > dvicihnita
> द्विचिह्न > dvicihna > designe.

have a parallel in Science.
tantra is Chemistry.
yantra is Physics,
mantra is Mathematics.
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Existence, Manifestation, Name and Form
have a parallel in
मन्त्र तन्त्र यन्त्र / mantra tantra yantra,
मन्त्र is Existence,
तन्त्र is Manifestation,
यन्त्र is Name and Form.
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Friday, 22 January 2016

Creative Art & Contemporary Art -2.


COOL CAT, BASKING IN THE EVENING SETTING-SUN.

Creative Art & Contemporary Art -2.
the poem referred to here could be found at :
vinaykvaidya.blogspot.com
 


Thursday, 21 January 2016

Creative Art & Contemporary Art :

Creative Art &Contemporary Art :
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अप्सरा, गंधर्व, यक्ष, पिशाच, दैत्य, दानव, देवता, विद्याधर, मरुद्गण,  
apsarā, gaṃdharva, yakṣa, piśāca, daitya, dānava, devatā, vidyādhara, marudgaṇa,  
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There are these Cosmic spirits wandering freely as and where-ever they want to roam about :
अप्सरा, गंधर्व, यक्ष, पिशाच, दैत्य, दानव, देवता, विद्याधर, मरुद्गण,  
apsarā, gaṃdharva, yakṣa, piśāca, daitya, dānava, devatā, vidyādhara, marudgaṇa, sur, asura, yaksha, rākṣasa, daitya, daanava, ...
The 'natures' associated with Creative Art.
This applies to all kinds of Art, be it literature, poetry, sculpture, dance, drama, music or painting. All equally find a way of expression through the creative instincts and inspirations of the Artist. And all these instincts and inspirations are the spirits that take the Artist for a ride and pay him / her rewards in terms of wealth, name, luxuries, social success and other things of the transient kinds.
You can at once recognize and detect the artist from his / work. As if he / she has put his / her signature on the thing he / she has created and the work carries the same on its face. And its so authentic that you can at once tell / distinguish a fake from the genuine. Again, one who can appreciate this distinction, can also recognize the very spirit that prompted the Artist to create this Signature-Art.
Joys and sorrows, pleasures and pains, agonies and ecstasies,
Amorous, fascinating, platonic, spiritual, haunting, scaring, enduring or momentary, elevating or depressing, stressful or pleasant, degenerating or devastating to complete annihilation, though often inexplicable of Creative Art.
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