Very good post. Niven
--- In [email protected], V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote: > > 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 >
