Music is truly the spice of life. Never does a day go by without music, unless of course you live in solitary confinement or prefer to live in complete silence. I have experienced silence, especially in the mountains during winter, when it’s snowing. I dig silence but prefer music.
My father was a giant jazz aficionado and early owner of stereo hi-fi, so my entire life has had a soundtrack. I still like jazz and especially reggae-dub of Brazil Jazz called the Bosa Nova.
I write here today to declare that I love Reggae-Dub and have for years, it never stops evolving as it swallows-up other genres and makes it reggae. Almost every hit Rock song has a Dub version, check out Dub-Side of the Moon sometime, to hear an example.
In Rock-n-Roll we sing that there’s nothin better in the world… you know? That sittin in the sun and listening to the radio.
Cool thing about today’s radio, in my case YouTube Music, this is not an endorsement but I have been Pro for over a decade because I enjoy “all you can eat” music programs AND since it comes with bundled benefits on the the YouTube studio aspect.
When I’m sitting in the sun I often listen to new hits and if I like them I add them to my Playlist called Beach Party and now that list is over one thousand saved songs, which I use for parties and at my favorite beach in Vancouver, on RANDOM selection
My ears heard new music today that has prompted me to write this post to say – Check out this Album, oh and yeah I am able to download entire albums that way I’m not burning up my data on my phone while riding around on my mountain bike.
I am still thinking about Elvis and days have gone by since I saw the film. Honestly, I learned about the documentary the same day that I read the listing for the showtime at my local theatre. Really I was expecting more of a life-story, or some behind the scenes narrative. What I left the theatre with is something I had never expected, a much deeper understanding of Elvis Presley.
The human side of a man who knew the power he held in his hands. There was a humility about Elvis that was rarely seen in public or in his movies, only when he’s rehearsing and interacting with his band-mates do you get to see a really personal side of the man. It was always well known that he loved Gospel songs but interesting to learn, that often time after a show, that he would sing them with his friends, upstairs in the hotel, until dawns morning light.
Elvis said that he would usually take about 5 hours to calm down after the show. Also, that it was common for him to lose four pounds of weight from sweat, in every concert but he didn’t care because he loved his fans and said that they deserve everything he’s got to give. He always reminded his band that they had to perform every show like it was the first time because for most of the people in the crowd, it is their first time.
Elvis Presley was offered the choice of a guitar or bicycle as a boy, he made the choice of the guitar and the world’s a better place for it. The King of Rock-n-Roll is a true master of the guitar, has to be or he would have never risen to the top. There were plenty of crooners and Sinatra was just across town at Caesars Palace, Dean Martin could sing too but Elvis was a young Rock Star with a guitar.
Las Vegas was ready for a Rock Star, and from the first minute Elvis arrives, to begin his 7 year residency, the film feels more like a reality series and certainly not a movie about a single event. We get taken on a backstage peek into the inner workings of the man of invented the man who became Elvis.
There’s nothing even borderline scandalous or even glimpses of excess. Just a candid look into the artistic process and thought processes of dealing with Stardom. It’s easy to imagine how someone as cool as Elvis is presented, could have influenced virtual legions of young men to pick-up the guitar. Every great from Michael Jackson to Kurt Cobain has proclaimed that Elvis is the King of Rock n Roll.
Without ruining the movie for you by giving away the reason Elvis moved to Las Vegas because I really want you to go and see this on a big screen, even if it’s just for the the entertainment, and trust me… you will be entertained. I want you to see with your own eyes, the love that came from his heart, to his fans.
Elvis sings and tells his story like never before in a new cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann.
Bob Marley sang that every man thinks his burden is the heaviest
In his song “Running Away”, Bob Marley goes on to sing, that you can’t run away from yourself. (You are NOT a Lucky Dog).
For anyone paying attention to social media, you will be aware of the crimes against humanity, that medical data is proving. Numbers don’t lie, although people providing the numbers do but it’s too late.The great awakening has grown too large, to now include a vast majority of the population. A small segment remains in denial but they have lost the debate, since the data is in and there’s nowhere to run.
Recently the very top man at one of the biggest vaccine manufacturers accidentally stated that his company had produced 100,000 units of the Covid19 vaccine in 2019, now we know. The pandemic started in 2020 and the two giant pharmaceutical companies told us that year that they could, with emergency use authorization and a waiver of liability to vaccine injury, produce a vaccine within 8 months. Now we know, they already had one.
The great reset was a planned opportunity to Build Back Better, a new world order. A diabolical plan had been hatched against “We the people” and it had nothing to do with our good health… on the contrary, we are the target in a global depopulation plan.
If you believe that the pandemic was a real, natural occurrence, met with a sincere scientific effort and that the Covid19 vaccine was safe and effective? Then I say to you; ignorance is bliss, you lucky dog.
The “Real” Great Reset is to Forgive
For the rest of us, which I like to refer to as; “We the people”, we have an enormous burden to carry. In order for our world to grow-out of this dilemma and heal the wounds of division, pain and suffering… we have to forgive the people who did this.
You are a lucky dog if none of your family were harmed by vaccine, as the statistics are showing one in a thousand were not so lucky. No-one knows the long-term effects but we do know that the spike protein created by the mRNA (m = messenger) can and does spread to the UN-vaccinated. Scientific research has proven this fact, that we’re all (humanity) in this together.
Each one of us are now in a crash-course in forgiveness, as it doesn’t take a genius to see that the human race is one species. Never before has the idea of one-ness been so evident. We all need to come together to heal the damage and survive this attack.
Division and conflict have been the traits of mankind up until this point in our history. Looking back all we see is perpetual war, looking forwards we see two choices; one-love or death to mankind. We can’t survive as a species, unless we unite in love.
You can’t run away from yourself, for where ever you go… there you are. The great awakening is reaching it’s most critical moment, the tipping point where humanity takes back control of earth. We the people have arisen and we are taking back the planet, there’s nothing the powers-that-be can do to stop us.
To those who know the truth about the Great Reset; Peace and love is coming, you lucky dog.
Running Away – Bob Marley Lyrics
Ya running and ya running And ya running away. Ya running and ya running And ya running away. Ya running and ya running And ya running away. Ya running and ya running, But ya can’t run away from yourself Can’t run away from yourself [Repeat: x5]
Ya must have done (must have done), Somet’in’ wrong (something wrong). Said: ya must have done (must have done), Wo! Somet’in’ wrong (something wrong). Why you can’t find the Place where you belong? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do (running away) [Repeat: x5]
Every man thinketh his Burden is the heaviest (heaviest). Every man thinketh his Burden is the heaviest (heaviest). Ya still mean it: Who feels it knows it, Lord; Who feels it knows it, Lord [Repeat: x3]
Ya running and ya running And ya running away. Ya running and ya running And ya running away. Ya running and ya running And ya running away. Ya running and ya running But ya can’t run away from yourself. Could ya run away from yourself? Can you run away from yourself? Can’t run away from yourself! Can’t run away from yourself! Yeah-eah-eah-eah – from yourself.
Brr – you must have done somethin’ Somethin’ somethin’ – somethin’ Somethin’ ya don’t want nobody to know about: Ya must have, Lord – somet’in’ wrong, What ya must have done – ya must have done somethin’ wrong. Why you can’t find where you belong?
Well, well, well, well, ya running away, heh, no, Ya running away, ooh, no, no, no, I’m not (running away), no, don’t say that – don’t say that, ‘Cause (running away) I’m not running away, ooh! (running away) I’ve got to protect my life, (running away) And I don’t want to live with no strife. (running away) It is better to live on the housetop (running away) Than to live in a house full of confusion. (running away) So, I made my decision and I left ya; (running away) Now you comin’ to tell me (running away) That I’m runnin’ away. (running away) But it’s not true, (running away) I am not runnin’ away. (running away)
Bob Marley influenced me to think deeply about who “I Am”, it is the only way to find Jah. The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. One love is peace and I am here to tell you that Rastafari is the largest “Self Organizing Collective” on earth. We are the most inclusive group, we are everywhere and we all Stand up for our Rights. We are the Movement of Jah people.
It was reported that when Bob Marley was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, he wept uncontrollably. Rastafari love Jesus, he is the son of Jah, the King of Kings! Whereas Bob Marley is our Prophet and common bond.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible and calendar, are authentic and contain much missing information. The oldest conspiracy theory on earth, is that the Bible has been censored for centuries. Constantine made a Roman church and imposed his will on the telling of the truth. Yes, the Bible does contain truth, however it’s been controlled and much of it omitted. Rastafari doesn’t follow books or churches, rather it’s a way of living. It is the way of One Love.
Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie) protected the Ethiopian Bible, written in Ge’ez an ancient dead language of Ethiopia it’s nearly 800 years older than the King James Version and contains 81-88 books compared to 66. It includes the Book of ENOCH, Esdras, Buruch and all 3 Books of MACCABEE, and a host of others that was excommunicated from the KJV.
Nicodemite is a person suspected of publicly misrepresenting their religious faith to conceal their true beliefs. Nicodemus is the origin of that derogatory term. The term was apparently introduced by John Calvin (1509–1564) in 1544 in his Excuse à messieurs les Nicodemites. Since the French monarchy had increased its prosecution of heresy with the Edict of Fontainebleau (1540), it had become increasingly dangerous to profess dissident belief publicly, and refuge was being sought in emulating Nicodemus.
Isaac Newton (1643–1727), eminent scientist and theologian was also, a Nicodemite
Although born into an Anglican family, by his thirties Newton held a Christian faith that, had it been made public, would not have been considered orthodox by mainstream Christianity, with one historian labelling him a heretic.
By 1672, he had started to record his theological researches in notebooks which he showed to no one and which have only recently been examined. They demonstrate an extensive knowledge of early Church writings and show that in the conflict between Athanasius and Arius which defined the Creed, he took the side of Arius, the loser, who rejected the conventional view of the Trinity. Newton “recognized Christ as a divine mediator between God and man, who was subordinate to the Father who created him.” He was especially interested in prophecy, but for him, “the great apostasy was trinitarianism.”
Trinitarianism
The Father, the Word and the Holly Spirit is one interpretation, The Father, the Son and the Holly Spirit is the other. This is not a small mistake, if Isaac Newton was correct. Furthermore, the King James Bible has hidden codes and experts suggest that King James, who was likely a Mason, hired editors to produce his; King James Version in 1611. Sir Isaac Newton was the greatest mind of his generation but his truth was slandered and silenced.
Truth is now tumbling out, ideas withheld for centuries are reaching the public. Jesus Christ was not born in December, probably Sept 11 (in your face). Christmas is just one tiny clue about the different versions of the truth. Churches too have run amok, worse than at any time in history. The world needs Rasta for encouragement, that we will forward in this generation, triumphantly.
You are not a prophet, I am not a prophet. Bob Marley was a Prophet. Bob Marley is the Lion of Zion.
The songs of Bob Marley lead us to find God, he made it cool again to read the Bible. Bob made us believe that peace will happen, only if we never, ever give up. We must be grateful for every day when the sun is shinning.
Sun Is Shining · Bob Marley & The Wailers
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know ya, where I stand
(Monday morning) here I am
Want you to know just if you can
(Tuesday evening) where I stand
(Wednesday morning) tell myself a new day is rising
(Thursday evening) get on the rise a new day is dawning
From the first strum to the last note, Donavan Frankenreiter had me as a lifetime fan. I might even say that “Big Wave was my favourite song of all time. Once you try this man’s tune on, you may become hooked and learn that he’s been cranking out great music for over two decades.
The back-story on Donovan is that he’s a California born surfer that moved to Hawaii to become a Pro and along the way met Jack Johnson on Hawaii’s North Shore and began developing his unique style from the heart of the Big Wave culture. It’s no wonder that he’d spawn a huge hit about a Big Wave.
The article below was rescued from the Wayback Machine and is of an interview of Donovan by Free Surf Magazine, way back in 2010 after the release of his album “Glow”. He provides some excellent insight.
Donavon Frankenreiter has melded a successful surfing career with an equally fruitful music career. With the release of his new album, “Glow”, Donavon set us wise to what role surfing has played in his music, what bands offer the most inspiration, and what we can expect from his latest record.
Freesurf: Having come from the surfing world, was it a difficult transition to the music industry and the music–business lifestyle?
Donavon Frankenreiter: It’s definitely two different worlds, but I’ve been lucky enough to start my own label, Liquid Tambourine Records, and release my music that way, which has been a totally different feeling and has given me a little bit more freedom and control.
Fs: Your first album had a folk-like vibe and you’ve continued to create music with a positive, buoyant sound. Will there be any surprises or new directions on your new album, “Glow”?
DF: I think that positive feeling I always have shines through on this record, but sonically, this record is like nothing I’ve ever done before. Mark Weinberg, the producer, really helped me take the original acoustic demos and reshape them into completely different songs—different textures, different keyboard sounds, lots of echo and delay on the electric guitars. I’m really, really happy with how it turned out.
Fs: In the past, you’ve collaborated with artists like Ben Harper and G. Love. How has collaboration inspired you?
DF: Collaboration is such a great catalyst for creativity. On this record, like I said, I worked with Mark Weinberg. I showed up at his house to do a co-writing session and within 30 minutes we’d written the second song on the album, “Keeping Me Away From You.” Mark went, “Wow, that was quick!” and I asked “does that usually happen?” I asked him to produce the record, we recorded it over three days at Pulse Studios in LA, and I’m incredibly happy with how it turned out. It’s completely different than any record I’ve released.
Fs: Is there anyone you want to collaborate with?
DF: The Black Keys, Wilco, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty.
Fs: Who are your major inspirations, music-wise and surf-wise?
DF: Musically, definitely Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix. Surf-wise, Tom Curren, Occy, and Kelly Slater, and of course the most influential surfer and my all–time favorite is Andy Irons.
Fs: Would you say surfing or music is your more creative outlet?
DF: Both. I’m addicted to both and they are both beautiful outlets.
Fs: You recently released “Revisited” where you put a Hawaiian spin on your first album. In what ways has living in Hawaii influenced your music?
DF: The Hawaiian instruments inspired me—I kept hearing them on the island everywhere I went and they were just so beautiful. Every time I was away from home and I heard a slack-key guitar, ukulele, or lap–steel guitar, it reminded me of home. I knew I wanted to incorporate them into my music, so I thought it’d be fun to revisit these songs I did seven years ago and put a Hawaiian twist on them to reflect my new home and my new love for the Hawaiian sound. Those instruments even made it onto some of the songs on “Glow”, too!
Fs: How does the surf culture influence your music?
DF: It influences everything I do, in a way. It’s my life and everything that I have learned or obtained has been through surfing and it’s culture.
The Angel from Montgomery has an effect on me like no other song, I am crying as I write these words. My sister Shelley once stole the show at an open mike singing contest in a really hard bar in a little red-neck town called Peachland. Shelley can bring grown men to tears, with this incredible song.
Over my lifetime nothing has captivated my spirit like great women blues singers, all my life I would gravitate towards great female vocals where it meets rock and roll, right at the cross roads to the blues. Janis Joplin started my addiction and I never quit. Saw Annie Lennox live in Adelaide in my twenties and that fuelled the fire. Nobody can rock quite as soulfully as the great women singers of rock legend.
Shelley, my sister, was the purpose of this tribute and without a doubt she can slam-dunk this famous John Prine song which Bonnie Raitt made into a brand, then Susan Tedeschi ran with the ball, having the most brilliant blues-band in modern history. All of them rock our world with this song but I chose Bonnie Bishop to share here: With all the love in my heart, to women who rock this world.
The Angel from Mongomery by Bonnie Bishop
John Prine wrote “Angel from Montgomery” after a friend suggested writing “another song about old people,” referring to Prine’s song “Hello in There.” Although Prine had “said everything I wanted to [about seniors] in ‘Hello in There’” he was intrigued by the idea of “a song about a middle-aged woman who feels older than she is…[Eventually] I had this really vivid picture of this woman standing over the dishwater with soap in her hands…She wanted to get out of her house and her marriage and everything. She just wanted an angel to come to take her away from all this.”
Prine believes he likely was drawn to Montgomery as the song’s setting by virtue of being a fan of Hank Williams, who had ties to that city. “
Angel from Montgomery” is a concert staple of Hank Williams’ granddaughter Holly Williams.
“Angel From Montgomery” (by John Prine)
I am an old woman Named after my mother My old man is another Child that’s grown old
If dreams were thunder And lightning was desire This old house woulda burnt down A long time ago
Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin’ Is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl Well I had me a cowboy He weren’t much to look at Just a free ramblin’ man But that was a long time And no matter how I tried Those years just flow by Like a broken down dam
Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin’ Is just a hard way to go
There’s flies in the kitchen I can hear them there buzzin’ And I ain’t done nothin’ since I woke up today But how the hell can a person Go to work in the mornin’ And come home in the evenin’ And have nothin’ to say
Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin’ Is just a hard way to go
Let it Be by the Beatles was the first album I ever bought. Back in 1970 the cassette tape was all the rage. I will never forget the experience, it was before a long car journey with my family. I bought two albums and actually think it’s fair to call them albums because they came with original artwork and lyrics, all tightly wrapped in plastic. This was so exciting to a 9 year old with his own cassette player and headset.
The original box set packaging of Let It Be. It contained a 160-page booklet with photos and quotes from the film.
The other first album I bought was by Creedence Clearwater Revival, called Cosmos Factory. To this day both playlists remain among my favourite songs of all time. Truly incredible that so many diverse hit songs could be contained within those two albums. Both rock groups were already becoming huge legends, one from Britain and the other from America.
I was off to a great start as a rock music connoisseur and would go on the own enough cassettes to sink a small boat. Now of course we can hold many times multitude more songs on our mobile phones. The Internet gives us access to every song ever recorded for public use but I will never forget the discovery of Let it Be and Cosmos Factory.
Cosmo’s Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival
This is the cover art for the album Cosmo’s Factory by the artist Creedence Clearwater Revival. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Fantasy, or the graphic artist(s).
The funny thing about the first listen, was that I was in the back seat of a family station wagon. The car was always packed for a family of 5 to spend a weekend at the mountain ski cabin. My sisters sat in the back with me as we excitedly opened the albums but the speaker was so lousy. We had to pass the headset to share the songs, it was like discovering a new planet.
We wore out the batteries on the cassette player, listening to the Beatles and CCR over and over.
Play I some music! Root’s Rock, Reggae! Everyday I go to the beach for sunset and swim in the sea but before I dive in I make sure I play loudly my master blaster, by startin off the jammin with Bob Marley – Play I some music.
So what’s been happening over the past few days is people have been coming to me at the shoreline and thanking “I” for supply the tunes, which I play loud via Charge 4 Harmon Acoustics and I mention to a few folks, now and then, that it’s Bob Marley’s 75th Birthday, and we’ve been granted permission (from the top) to play Reggae-Rock to commemorate Bob Marley.
The Supreme Commander and Head Creator of all things, RasTafari Jah, has demanded and commanded, that this the 75th Anniversary of the Prophet Bob Marley, be recognized in all hamlets of all boroughs of terra firma. Hereby, it is dictated from on above high, to play “Roots, Rock, Raggae” until the heavens bounce it back on earth.
You are hereby granted (by Jah) authority to Rock Bob Marley!
Root’s Rock, Reggae was written to embrace all music enthusiasts, all together in one song to introduce Reggae to the mainstream. People everywhere in the world identify with Bob Marley, his message has the largest possible circumference of fans, compared to any other genre or niche of music, all people, even babies, love Bob Marley.
So, now that I’ve pitched you, let me tell you my own experience, if you just play his songs when people need to hear them, and no one else is providing soundtrack for our great lives, then you go ahead and play Roots Rock, Reggae and make the world a better place by bring a vibe of peace and truth.
“Roots, Rock, Reggae”
Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music! Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music! Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music! Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music!
Hey, Mister Music, sure sounds good to me! I can’t refuse it: what to be got to be. Feel like dancing, dance ’cause we are free; Feel like dancing, come dance with me!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music! Roots, rock, reggae, yeah! Dis a reggae music! Play I some music: dis a reggae music! Play I some music: dis a reggae music!
Play I on the R&B – wo-oh! Want all my people to see: We’re bubblin’ on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread! Play I on the R&B; want all my people to see: We bubblin’ on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread!
Roots, rock, reggae: dis a reggae music! Uh-uh! Roots, rock, reggae, ee-mi duba! Dis a reggae music! Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!) Play I some music: (dis a reggae music!)
[Saxophone solo] (Dis a reggae music!) (Dis a reggae music!)
Play I on the R&B; I want all my people to see: (doo-doo-doo-doo!) We bubblin’ on the Top 100, just like a mighty dread! (doo-doo-doo-doo!) Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music! Play I some music: (dis a) reggae music! (Dis a reggae music!) (Dis a reggae music!)
Lorde - Solar Power (Lyrics)
I hate the winter
Can’t stand the cold
I tend to cancel all the plans (so sorry, I can’t make it)
But when the heat comes
Something takes a hold
Can I kick it? Yeah, I can
My cheeks in high colour, overripe peaches
No shirt, no shoes, only my features
My boy behind me, he’s taking pictures
Lead the boys and girls onto the beaches
Come one, come all, I’ll tell you my secrets
I’m kinda like a prettier Jesus
Forget all of the tears that you’ve cried, it’s over (over, over, over)
It’s a new state of mind — are you coming, my baby?
Acid green, aquamarine
The girls are dancing in the sand
And I throw my cellular device in the water
Can you reach me? No, you can’t
Turn it on in a new kind of bright, it’s solar (solar, solar, solar)
Come on and let the bliss begin
Blink three times when you feel it kickin’ in
That solar power
Producer: Andrew McLean Production Company: Good Oil Director of Photography: Andrew Stroud Production Designer: Guy Treadgold Editor: Stewart Reeves @ WORK Editorial Colourist: David Gibson Post Production: Blockhead VFX Lorde
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor (born 7 November 1996), known professionally as Lorde (/lɔːrd/LORD), is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Taking inspiration from aristocracy for her stage name, she is known for employing unconventional musical styles and introspective songwriting. Lorde’s music is primarily electropop and contains elements of subgenres such as dream pop and indie-electro.
Born in the Auckland suburb of Takapuna and raised in neighbouring Devonport, Lorde expressed interest in performing at local venues in her early teens. She signed with Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2009 and collaborated with producer Joel Little in 2011 to start recording material. Initially self-released in 2012 for free download on SoundCloud, UMG commercially released the pair’s first collaborative effort, an extended play (EP) titled The Love Club, in 2013. The EP’s international chart-topping single “Royals” helped Lorde rise to prominence.
Her debut studio album Pure Heroine was released that same year to critical and commercial success. The following year, Lorde curated the soundtrack for the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and recorded several tracks, including the single “Yellow Flicker Beat”. Her second studio album Melodrama (2017) received widespread critical acclaim and debuted atop the US Billboard 200.
Lorde’s accolades include two Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards, and a Golden Globe nomination. She appeared in Time‘s list of the most influential teenagers in 2013 and 2014, and the 2014 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30. In addition to her solo work, she has co-written songs for other artists, including Broods and Bleachers. As of June 2017, Lorde has sold over five million albums worldwide.
There’s something magical about Sanskrit Mantra called invincible but also there is something special about Sanskrit, maybe it’s that it’s new and refreshingly different for me, or maybe that it’s the sweetest singing language ever invented but what if it were forgotten from our consciousness?
The words of this Sanskrit Mantra is the reason why we like it so much, just immerse yourself and enjoy. You are invincible, this song is the code to program your own mind.
The Sanskrit Mantra is for Invincibility in sense of Freedom from destructive tendency of thought patterns.
The Sanskrit College and University
Sanskrit (/ˈsænskrɪt/, attributively संस्कृत-, saṃskṛta-, nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam) is a classical language of South Asia belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies.
A 19th-century illustrated manuscript from the Bhagawad Gita composed in Sanskrit ca 400 BC – 200 BC, Chapter 1, portions of verses 20, 21: … प्रवृत्ते शस्त्रसम्पाते धनुरुद्यम्य पाण्डवः ॥ २० ॥ Then, beholding the sons of Dhritarâshtra standing arrayed, and flight of missiles about to begin, … the son of Pându, took up his bow, हृषीकेशं तदा वाक्यमिदमाह महीपते । अर्जुन उवाच । … ॥ २१ ॥ And spake this word to Hrishîkesha, O Lord of Earth: Arjuna said:
Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan varieties. The most archaic of these is Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda, a collection of 1,028 hymns composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes migrating east from what today is Afghanistan across northern Pakistan and into northern India. Vedic Sanskrit interacted with the preexisting ancient languages of the subcontinent, absorbing names of newly encountered plants and animals; in addition, the ancient Dravidian languages influenced Sanskrit’s phonology and syntax. “Sanskrit” can also more narrowly refer to Classical Sanskrit, a refined and standardized grammatical form that emerged in the mid-1st millennium BCE and was codified in the most comprehensive of ancient grammars, the Aṣṭādhyāyī (“Eight chapters”) of Pāṇini. The greatest dramatist in Sanskrit Kālidāsa wrote in classical Sanskrit, and the foundations of modern arithmetic were first described in classical Sanskrit. The two major Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, however, were composed in a range of oral storytelling registers called Epic Sanskrit which was used in northern India between 400 BCE and 300 CE, and roughly contemporary with classical Sanskrit. In the following centuries Sanskrit became tradition bound, stopped being learned as a first language, and ultimately stopped developing as a living language.
Historic Sanskrit manuscripts: a religious text (top), and a medical text
The hymns of the Rigveda are notably similar to the most archaic poems of the Iranian and Greek language families, the Gathas of old Avestan and Iliad of Homer. As the Rigveda was orally transmitted by methods of memorisation of exceptional complexity, rigour and fidelity, as a single text without variant readings, its preserved archaic syntax and morphology are of vital importance in the reconstruction of the common ancestor language Proto-Indo-European. Sanskrit does not have an attested native script: from around the turn of the 1st-millennium CE, it has been written in various Brahmic scripts, and in the modern era most commonly in Devanagari.
Sanskrit’s status, function, and place in India’s cultural heritage are recognized by its inclusion in the Constitution of India‘s Eighth Schedule languages. However, despite attempts at revival, there are no first language speakers of Sanskrit in India. In each of India’s recent decadal censuses, several thousand citizens have reported Sanskrit to be their mother tongue, but the numbers are thought to signify a wish to be aligned with the prestige of the language. Sanskrit has been taught in traditional gurukulas since ancient times; it is widely taught today at the secondary school level. The oldest Sanskrit college is the Benares Sanskrit College founded in 1791 during East India Company rule. Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial and ritual language in Hindu and Buddhist hymns and chants.
Sanskrit Mantra in music at it’s best here – https://linktr.ee/Gaiea
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