Move over patriotism... It's time for matriotism!

National song of????bhārat+4??Xtra?

stanzas of ????? ?????? by r?i bankim?

candra cattōpādhyāya, set to?

rāg dé? as performed on AIR?

& a rā?tra-gāna ?ubh-ā?itaM

??Theme??:?

Move over patriotism…?

it’s time for matriotism!

??Lingo?? : bengāli+sanskrit

??Songs??:?

ratnā-kara dhauta-padāM?

& FULL vande mātaram?

Just the first2??of this 1870s poem’s?

6??stanzas were adopted as bhārat’s?

national song on Jan 24th 1950,?

but VasanthiMā endeavours to?

bring back to life all 6?? today in?

their original spirit & fervour,?

preceded by an anonymous seer-

steered rā?tra-gāna ?ubh-ā?itaM.?

There’re a few others who’ve sung?

the full song but have partially

contemporarised the lyrics,?

allowing for population growth.?

Since our channel’s USP is always?

a-dvaitic interpretation, there was?

no such need to meddle with r?i ?rī

bankim candra cattōpādhyāyaji’s?

original poetic & prophetic words.

??Melody??:?

rāg??dé?????

??Rhythm??:?

??ādi??tāLam???

??Event??:?

It’s????Republic Day amidst?

amrit mah-ōtsav: 75th year?

of bhāratīya independence.?

These commonly-used but equally?

commonly-misunderstood words?

“republic“ & “independence” are?

far more significant in their original?

references in the timeless védās.?

For example, ‘re-public’ actually?

refers to a categorical bodily ??

armour tech (ga?-tan-tra), equally?

applicable to individuals & national?

bodies, illustrating ever-expansive?

bounds of one’s duties (sabkā?

prayās) as much as one’s rights?

(sabkā sāth, sabkā vikās, sabkā?

vi?vās).?

Similarly, ‘independence’ refers to?

ourSelf’s rule over the bodily ??

armour tech (sva-tan-tra), with the?

soul of the nation being identical to?

the individual ātmā, as a practically

-feasible training ground even for?

novices in life’s journey, before?

eventually embarking towards?

the truth of universal oneness?

(vasudhéiva kutumbakam).?

??♂?Protagonist??♀?:?

Our??motherly??microcosmic??

Self@ātmā??, which??unfurls????

itself into the macrocosmic????

creativity@??bhārat????mātā??,?

as an??educative??precursor??

to its??universal????motherhood??

(vasudhéiva kutumbakam) &?

eventually embarking??inward?

towards the ultimate truth of?

universal??oneness??beyond???

the??cyclicity??of ??spacetime?.?

??Location??:?

??akhand???? bhārat, ??♂?headed in?

the??cool??,??♂?still????♂?&??♂?masculine

????♂?himālayās??&??grounded??in?

the??warm??,?dynamic?? &??♀?

feminine??♀???Indian??Ocean??.?

This is in total??contrast?? & a????

polar opposite??to hot??-headed??

arrogance??& ??cold??-??footed

??cowardice??, ??exhausting?? a

??negative??thermal??gradient??

reacted?by a??downward??flow

??& hence??wastage??of the??

????precious??♀?mystical??kundalini

??energy??.?

??Composer??: r?i bankim candra?

catta-upa-adhyāya‘s (????Jun 27th,?

1838—Apr 8th, 1894??) 1870s?

poem entered as??lyrics into his?

1882 novel & a 1952 movie: both?

by the name ānanda-maTh, 1st set?

to music by hémanta mukha-upa-

adhyāy & jādunāth bhatt-ācāryā;?

sung by rabindra-nāth tagōre &?

popularised by ?rī auro-bindō ghō?

who right then gave a clarion call?

for British+Congress-mukt bhārat!?

In fact, ?rī auro-bindō ghō? wrote a?

detailed article titled “Slaying of the?

Congress” likening the grand old?

party to the reverse goat-headed?

dak?a prajā-pati; bhārat mātā to?

dévi sati, sedated into tamas by the?

invaders; eventual soulful destiny?

of bhārat to mahādév ?ivā & the?

free-spirited gaNās as the true?

Indians, unaffected by Macaulay’s?

‘educational’ brainwash!

Indeed dévi sati‘s body parts are?

what constitute bhārat mātā, via?

the 51 literally powerful (?????)?

consecrations (???) across the?

length & breadth of this vast nation.

Extending this analogy to dévi sati‘s?

future incarnations, yōgi auro-bindō?

goes on to predicting the post-1947

true individual freedom of ourSelf-

rule (sva-rāj) in bhārat@pārvati@

bhavāni, well into the future beyond?

this year’s amrit mahotsav!?

Just like an individual, the nation?

also has 3?? bodies:?

physical, subtle & causal.?

It’s time now to go beyond our?

preoccupation with the first 2?? both?

at the individual & national levels!

For this, we as individuals & as a?

nation need to transcend karmās?

of all 3 categories:?

past, present & future ::?

accumulated balance,?

current lifetime withdrawal,?

fresh deposits as investment ::?

sancita, prārabdha & āgāmi!

Acknowledgement:

This week’s????RD??Parade was?

unique in many ways including the?

spectacular??75-??aircraft??air??

show??with DD’s??eyes??even in?

the sky??. But the show-stealer for?

VasanthiMā was the grand finale of?

a year-long multi-stage competition?

which resulted in a??dance????

medley (nritya utsav) by nearly 500?

dancers constituting 36 classical,?

folk, tribal & contemporary/modern?

troupes from 15 states of bhārat to?

the song vandé bhāratam@the 73rd?

gan-tantra divas of azādi ka amrit?

mahōtsav composed by 2 maestros:?

a Grammy Awardee Ricky Kéj & an?

Oscar Nominee/contender Bickram?

Ghō?. Well, that’s the inspiration for?

VasanthiMā’s latest single, releasing?

this weekend right here & now:

https://youtu.be/W0gKLbrLwq8