July 22nd, 2008 - The universe is trying to tell me something
In the past week or so, THREE blogs I read have linked to the same video: Grace Writes about it the day after my birthday. And I can’t find the other two. I thought it was Tia or Blogging on Purpose but neither of them have it. Oh well. thank you to whoever did post it and make my day!
Then today my Astronomy Picture of the Day was the video as well.
Last week, after watching the video a couple times, I bought the soundtrack (one song, written, as far as I can tell, for the video but I’m not sure) and I’ve listened to it an awful lot. Combined with inspiration from reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, I’ve been trying to meditate with it as well as each night.
I’m not sure exactly what the universe is saying, but it has to be something important to have come up even on the picture of the day…when it has nothing to do with astronomy and isn’t a picture!
What is it?
Interested in the song? Here’s more info at Amazon, where you can also buy it. Here’s one person’s info about the lyrics:
The text is from the Bengali poem Gitanjali (”Stream of Life”) from Rabindranath Tagore:
Bhulbona ar shohojete
Shei praan e mon uthbe mete
Mrittu majhe dhaka ache
je ontohin praan
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde
Chittobinar taare
Shotto-shundu dosh digonto
Nachao je jhonkare!
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
I wish I knew what praan means.
And see more of Matt at Where the Hell is Matt? including a previous tour of the world (mostly dancing alone) and outtakes.