I was friended on Facebook recently by an interesting person named Dvorahji Dvorah Adler. She blogs here.
She says: Shut up and be happy! Enlightenment (==happiness?) is already within you, do not chase after it.
I read this on unawoken’s blog and felt “tempted” to respond with a post.
You can read about Mara here.
For the purpose of discussion, I assume Mara is temptation.
I had to share these videos. I am spellbound every time I hear this kind of music. In the first, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi unleashes a drut bandish in Raga Todi at the Sawai Gandharva festival ’63. In the second, the other master from Karnataka, Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur presents a sublime Raga Bihagda.
I stumbled upon the India Uncut blog recently and love it! Found this quote over there:
“… the following statement qualifies as a boast, not a confession?
I was the one who had had a leading Bengali daily’s office vandalised because it had…