May It Be

[SvgGrdnBeauty]

We sang this song, "May It Be", in concert choir and as we sang it...I realized that it was possible that this song was spiritually symbolic (because if you haven't noticed...I do that a lot...lol...aka my Jekyll and Hyde paper)...so see if you think so too...
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May it be an evening star shines down upon you



May you always have a Divine Light to follow



May it be when darkness falls, your heart will be true



In the darkest moments of materialism, may you always find God in the depths of you heart…in your soul, your true Self



You walk a lonely road



You will never truly be happy in materialism...never truly fulfilled



Oh how far you are from home



You will be forever unfulfilled until you find the presence of the Divine within you. Living in ignorance will keep you forever away from “home”…your true form.



Mornië Utulië (Darkness Rises)

Believe and you will find your way

Mornië Atlantië (Darkness Falls)

A promise lives within you now



As long as you go searching earnestly for the Divine light, you will find it. It is there, within everyone, and you will find it if you really want to. When you do, then you will find true happiness.



May it be the shadow’s call will fly away



You may throw off this material world (that is only shadows of Divine light) to see the true light



May it be you journey on to light the day

When the night is overcome you may rise to find the sun



When you over come attachment and ignorance, you will eventually over come your Karma and journey to God



Mornië Utulië (Darkness Rises)

Believe and you will find your way

Mornië Atlantië (Darkness Falls)

A promise lives within you now

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And to boot...I'll throw in our choral version of the song...(which I like just a tad bit better than the original...and not because I sang it...)

http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QZAZMYUTLRJ20NDJICQUDD4ZB (http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QZAZMYUTLRJ20NDJICQUDD4ZB)

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If you would like to hear any other songs...PM me. :)

[cerridwen]

indeed :)

[Bhaskar]

It seems to be pretty obviously spiritual to me. Nice song :)

[SvgGrdnBeauty]

Glad you both enjoyed it. :)

[BlackBillBlake]

"Little miss Muffet sat on a tuffet

eating her curds and whey"

Here we have the external, egoistic consciousness, absorbed in it's round of wordly experience and enjoyment.

"There came a big spider
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away"

The big spider here is the Divine revealing himself, seated along with the individual soul within the heart, Illuminating the consciouness and causing the limited ego consciousness to disappear. :)

One more:

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again"

So - Humpty represents the original Divine Consciousness, in which all is one - even in the diversity of the manifest universe, there is still this perception of unity.
But - we have 'fallen', like Humpty, from our position in our original spiritual consciousness, and now, because of our limited egoistic human awarness, all seems fragmented. We can't see the unity because of the diversity.
The King, whose horses and men can't put humpty together again, represents 'worldy power', and also Humpty's own consciousness, now it has entered into the world of relativities. His horses and men, who can't restore Humpty, are attempts to find true knowledge, peace or happiness by worldy means, which are doomed to failure because they are ignorant of the Divine, and only in the Divine Consciousness is this sought after unity possible.
The horses may represent a crude, physical type of approach, whilst the men may represent intellectualism, material science etc.

:sunglasse

[SvgGrdnBeauty]

Hehehe...even in nursery rhymes! lol. Thanks for sharing that Andrew! :)

[Bhaskar]

Baa Baa black sheep,
have you any wool?

The black sheep is the scriptures, to which we turn for sadhana (wool).

yes sir! yes sir!
three bags full.

There are 3 types of sadhana.

one for the master

jnana, the path of knowledge, for the intellectual

one for the slave

karma yoga, tha perfect way for the worker

and one for the little boy
who lives down the lane

bhakti, which requires the devotee to have a childlike innocence and love.

[Jedi]

:D this is great.


Three blind mice, Three blind mice, see how they run! see how they run!,

I don't remember the rest, but the mice are looking for something :p

[BlackBillBlake]

" Three blind mice, three blind mice
see how they run, see how they run
they all ran after the farmer's wife
who cut off their tails with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a thing in your life
as three blind mice?"

The three blind mice are the three gunas - tamas, rajas and sattva. The farmer's wife is Maya, the power of cosmic illusion.
Because the soul thinks it will bring it happiness, it is always running after the things of this world - Maya. But the soul can't get what it wants that way, and maya herself constantly hands out 'punishment' (cutting off the tails) in the form of dissapointment, lack of satisfaction etc.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life? Some say not, since the gunas are actually only part of the illusion.

[Bhaskar]

haha wonderful!

[Bhaskar]

Jack be nimble
jack be swift
jack jump over the candlestick

Jack jumped high
Jack jumped low
Jack jumped over
and burned his toe.



This is the nature of maya. Jumping over the candlestick refers to attemting to satisfy our desires by worldly means. We do all we can, we jump high and low and here and there, always scrambling to satisfy our desires and finally, when we do jump over the candlestick, we burn our toe, meaning there is still some kind of pain and satisfaction in worldly terms is never complete.

[Jedi]

The three blind mice are the three gunas - tamas, rajas and sattva. The farmer's wife is Maya, the power of cosmic illusion.
Because the soul thinks it will bring it happiness, it is always running after the things of this world - Maya. But the soul can't get what it wants that way, and maya herself constantly hands out 'punishment' (cutting off the tails) in the form of dissapointment, lack of satisfaction etc.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life? Some say not, since the gunas are actually only part of the illusion.
haha :D nice one. And they keep going after maya, they are blind!

[NaykidApe]

I don't know much about hinduism but I wanted to play so, please forgive;



(The progression of ritual in the Judeo-Christian tradtion)

Rub-A-Dub-Dub
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?

The butcher --(The blood sacrifices)
the baker --(The bread of the covenant)
the candlestick maker --(and of course, the catholics)

Turn 'em out, knaves all three (any explanation necessary?)

[BlackBillBlake]

I don't know much about hinduism but I wanted to play so, please forgive;



Nothing to forgive!!

We like Jesus here too.

[BlackBillBlake]

Little Boy Blue

Come blow up your horn
the sheeps in the meadow
the cows in the corn
where is the boy
who looks after the sheep?
under the haystack, fast asleep.

Clear enough who 'little boy blue' is! The sweet child Gopal Krishna. The horn is actually a crude rendition of 'flute'. The sound of Sri Krishna's flute is said to attract the soul, draw it to Himself with it's sweet divine harmonies.
The part about the sheep in the meadow and cows in the corn refers in general to the disordered state of human society to-day. And to the disordered state of our own being if we are not focused on Him. But what is the solution?
Only the awakening of the inner human soul consciousness can help.
But where is this soul? It is hidden, and seeking for it can be like looking for a needle in a haystack - there are so many distractions, wrong turnings etc. But really it is within ourselves, but 'sleeping'. It is covered by the haystack of maya. So we should listen very carefully for the call of Krishna's flute, calling the Atman to awaken and realize it's true eternal and blissful nature.;)

[Kharakov]

It is covered by the haystack of maya.Sometimes it peeks out and Krishna put's more hay upon it because it is not ready for truth. If it cracks it's shell before it is developed, it may not fly.
So we should listen very carefully for the call of Krishna's flute, calling the Atman to awaken and realize it's true eternal and blissful nature.;) The melody will not come to you until you are ready. Then it will unify your fragmented knowledge, and if the unity is the last unity, your knowledge will not need to be seperated again, for it will stay seperate and whole while united and whole.

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[BlackBillBlake]

Sometimes it peeks out and Krishna put's more hay upon it because it is not ready for truth. If it cracks it's shell before it is developed, it may not fly.
Thats true I think. And it's one reason why all we can really do is surrender to Him. When the time comes, He reveals Himself.



The melody will not come to you until you are ready. Then it will unify your fragmented knowledge, and if the unity is the last unity, your knowledge will not need to be seperated again, for it will stay seperate and whole while united and whole.

He IS knowledge. The highest vijnana.

[BlackBillBlake]

Just as a footnote to that, here's brief quote from Sri Aurobindo:


"The link between the spiritual and the lower planes of the being is that which is called in the old Vedantic phraseology the vijñāna and which we may describe in our modern turn of language as the Truth-plane or the ideal mind or Supermind where the One and the Many meet and our being is freely open to the revealing light of the divine Truth and the inspiration of the divine Will and Knowledge."


From 'The Synthesis of Yoga'.

[Kharakov]

I like that word. Vijnana... hahaha... you said Vijnana... I'll meet you at the Vijnana... lol.. Man, that Krishna character has an excellent sense of humor.

[BlackBillBlake]

.. lol.. Man, that Krishna character has an excellent sense of humor.Very True http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

http://img254.echo.cx/img254/9230/a5538jv.jpg

[SvgGrdnBeauty]

lol...one of my favourite Krishna stories! :)

[BlackBillBlake]

lol...one of my favourite Krishna stories! :)
It has deep significance as well as the humourous aspect.