Whenever Yogis or Nath-Yogis meet, they greet each other with the salutation “Adesh-Adesh!” Gorakshanath the Maha Yogi wrote:
Aatmetu paramaatmeti jiivatmeti vicaarane
Trayaanaam aikya-samshutir asdes’s iti kiirtitah
In our relative thought we distinguish between Atman, Paramatman, and Jiva.
The Truth is that these three are one and a realization of it is called Adesha.
Thus the yogi in his contact with others expressed only the simple truth in the words, “Adesh-Adesh!” .
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Baba Kalgilal Maharaj track 3 Lalit,According to the Babas introduction in his own voice, the music tradition was transported from Rajasthan, India ar
Music of the Kumbalgarh Tradition This disc offers possibly the only reproduction of the wonderful music of Baba Kalgilalji Maharaj, a musician, who excelled in vocal music as well as in the playing of the Rudra Veena. This great musician lived in near obscurity in Nepal through the latter half of the 19th century and near the first half of the 20th century. No exact dates are available and this is an informed guess. An unknown European traveler recorded him, according to the brief speech of the Baba on this disc in the Nepali language, in 1910. I came upon these recordings on som highly damaged discs in Najibabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, some years ago. To my unbelievable luck the person, who had the discs also had a photograph. According to the Babas introduction in his own voice, the music tradition was transported from Rajasthan, India around the 15th century, and survived through the association of the spiritual movement, founded by Baba Gorakhnath. The music while scaling heights of virtuosity has a direct and powerful appeal. Even allowing for the limitations of sound equipment of those times, the resonant and powerful strokes of the veena stand out. Could the Baba have been using rhinoceres gut to string his instrument? In his short speech Baba Kalgilal describes his tradition as Kumbal Vani, associated with the Rajasthan town of Kumbalgarh. We usually associate Dhrupad singing with the four banis or styles. Was there in fact a fifth? Unfortunately there is
Music of the Kumbalgarh Tradition This disc offers possibly the only reproduction of the wonderful music of Baba Kalgilalji Maharaj, a musician, who excelled in vocal music as well as in the playing of the Rudra Veena. This great musician lived in near obscurity in Nepal through the latter half of the 19th century and near the first half of the 20th century. No exact dates are available and this is an informed guess. An unknown European traveler recorded him, according to the brief speech of the Baba on this disc in the Nepali language, in 1910. I came upon these recordings on som highly damaged discs in Najibabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, some years ago. To my unbelievable luck the person, who had the discs also had a photograph. According to the Babas introduction in his own voice, the music tradition was transported from Rajasthan, India around the 15th century, and survived through the association of the spiritual movement, founded by Baba Gorakhnath. The music while scaling heights of virtuosity has a direct and powerful appeal. Even allowing for the limitations of sound equipment of those times, the resonant and powerful strokes of the veena stand out. Could the Baba have been using rhinoceres gut to string his instrument? In his short speech Baba Kalgilal describes his tradition as Kumbal Vani, associated with the Rajasthan town of Kumbalgarh. We usually associate Dhrupad singing with the four banis or styles. Was there in fact a fifth? Unfortunately there is
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