One of my friends, some 24 year old, visited me yesterday and was using my pc and playing songs. He happened to put Kisna songs and was playing them all randomly so he reached put "kisna them [inst]".
And I noticed a sudden change in his composure. All his usual restless had disappeared in an instant, all those quick changing windows purposelessly, quickly shuffling songs, putting one with eagerness and loosing interest in that after listening just for a few moments and putting next -- all these were gone. He was physically here but I could sense that his mind has gone somewhere else. He kept on listening to the same in repeat, still doing some purposeless things on pc just to pretend himself busy, but the speed of all that shuffling windows was very slow. After some 5 mins, I asked him what r u thinking. He looked at me as if he is noticing now that I am there. He took a long exhale, on the verge of a sigh, thought for a few moments - and then he shared with me about his GF, 2 years younger to him whom he knows for some 6 years. He shared with me that he has proposed to her a dozen times and she always refused saying that you are my best friend but I have never thought abuot you, looked at you from this angle, and had always declined the proposal. They continue to remain best friends. Even after repeated questioning, she never told him why she doesn't "start" looking at him at this angle or why doesn't she give to thought to it. let me clarify that there was no melodrama at this time. He was not weeping or crying. Quite a confident and balanced guy. He was in introspection, retrospection mode. He is not a fan of ARR. The 59 seconds were playing in loop. We were listening to it. The music starts on slow notes, I think that is what it is called, slowly rises, reaches a mini crescendo and at 50th seconds ends - sort of "unannounced", there was no sudden stopping of music, but the flute stops, some other instruments play for 2 seconds creating a "mist" sort of sound, and then all sounds stop and there is an utter silence for 5 seconds. and then it plays again. That meant we could never sense when the music has "finished" in a particular play. When the sounds stopped, we thought it was some temporary effect and more sounds will come and the repeat play of the song appeared like those awaited sounds have eventually arrived. I mean it was not a start-play-stop music. It was "continuous" music, endless, timeless. I confess that I was noticing all this for the first time. :-) I am a lyrics man, didn't like the no-lyrics music much. OK. then, he didn't ask anything, but I could see that his mind is asking him why, why, why. Why she doesn't think about him as a BF. So, without lecturing, I started analyzing his nature/ behavior/ personality, softly and slowly, giving him time to absorb it, not accusing him, but as if we two were talking about some other person. I am not sharing that part as that would be "private" for him. The 59 seconds were playing and we were talking. The world didn't exist for us. I didn't exist, he didn't exist in person, only his mind and persona existed as the only entity in universe. For the first time in his entire life, he was in touch with himself. He was revealing himself, not even noticing that he was doing so, because, being a worldly wise "control"-freak guy, he wudn't open his vulnerable side to anyone, often not to me also. For some 50 minutes, those 59 seconds kept on playing. He got a few insights about himself, he made some resolves, some he told me, some he kept to himself. And then he went. He didn't become a fan of ARR as such though this particular piece of music would now hold a special place for him for a long time if not for life. -- So, that was it. Whatever happens now to him or to their relationship is not really an issue here. The issue here is the power of music that we have only heard in legends that some piece of music turned lives, a piece of music has stopped people from committing suicide, a piece of music has stopped fights and wars, a piece of music has cured people, motivated and rejuvenated people. I saw all those legends come true in front of my eyes. Our man didn't get any Filmfare, Golden Globe, Oscar for this 59 seconds, but that only proves that awards is not an issue. The issue is the purity of music that our man composes, musics that are legendary, musics that bring self-awareness, musics listening to whom is equivalent of doing mediation and tapasya, musics that change the speed of time, musics that make time and space disappear. Our man would not know of this incident, but several such incidents must be happening across the world every now and then where our man's creations are helping making people better humans, making the world a better place. My salutes to our man for composing such music. I wish God gives him a long and healthy life to continue his this social work, to continue making the world such a place that God wants it to become. -- Rawat
