Sing Always the Song of the Divine

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  • Shankara
  • wrote
  • the
  • first
  • verse
  • of
  • this
  • sweet
  • song
  • when
  • he
  • was
  • passing
  • through
  • a
  • village
  • and
  • saw
  • an
  • old
  • man
  • memorising
  • the
  • rules
  • of
  • grammar.
  • He
  • felt
  • pity
  • for
  • this
  • old
  • man
  • who
  • was
  • on
  • his
  • deathbed:
  • he
  • had
  • wasted
  • his
  • whole
  • life
  • and
  • now
  • he
  • was
  • wasting
  • his
  • last
  • moment
  • too.
  • All
  • his
  • life
  • he
  • had
  • never
  • remembered
  • the
  • divine
  • and
  • even
  • now
  • he
  • was
  • busy
  • with
  • grammar.
  • What
  • would
  • he
  • gain
  • by
  • memorising
  • the
  • rules
  • of
  • grammar?Bhajan,
  • devotional
  • singing,
  • kirtan,
  • divine
  • songs
  • and
  • dance
  • are
  • all
  • means
  • of
  • expressing
  • feelings.
  • Shankara
  • is
  • implying
  • that
  • without
  • saying
  • anything
  • you
  • yourself
  • should
  • become
  • a
  • song,
  • a
  • divine
  • song.
  • These
  • verses
  • are
  • very
  • simple,
  • these
  • sutras
  • are
  • straightforward,
  • and
  • they
  • are
  • written
  • by
  • a
  • genius
  • like
  • Shankara.
  • In
  • all
  • of
  • Shankara's
  • literature
  • there
  • is
  • nothing
  • more
  • precious
  • than
  • Bhaj
  • Govindam.
  • Shankara
  • is
  • basically
  • a
  • philosopher;
  • everything
  • he
  • has
  • written
  • is
  • very
  • complex;
  • it
  • is
  • all
  • words,
  • scriptures,
  • logic,
  • analysis
  • and
  • thought.
  • But
  • Shankara
  • knows
  • that
  • godliness
  • cannot
  • be
  • achieved
  • through
  • logic,
  • analysis
  • and
  • thought.
  • The
  • way
  • to
  • attain
  • it
  • is
  • through
  • dancing
  • and
  • singing
  • -
  • through
  • feeling
  • and
  • not
  • through thinking.
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