Sir Bapa wrote:
>
>A general, "philosophical" question: Isn't it the case that
>viplavaatmaka kavitvam at its highest level would deal with some
>eternal questions of the human condition and therefore will not
>be transient but eternal? Sorry I can't produce any examples here,
>but is it justified to say that viplavaatmaka kavitvam by its
>nature is ephemeral?
>
>Bapa Rao
Possible - that is how Bhagavad Geeta started with Arjuna Vishaada yoga.
But that again - it could lead to creative long lasting poetry. The long
lasting ness depends as a poetry back to not because of the temporal aspect
of it but for the lyrical beauty and the hRdayaanni dravimpace bhavamu.
But as phylosophy it may last long because of its contents. If everything
is there then it is most beautiful - That is what one gets the impression
when one reads Sri Sankaraachaarya's Bhajagovindam.
Some one has remarked in the discussion that chandas is an old garment and
the modern poetry has to change rather than ware the grandfather garmet.
The analogy makes no sense. The absurdity becomes self evident when one
applies the same analogy to ragaas which are meterical forms similar to
chandas. Chandas does not make some thing old or new it is just a metrical
forms and one can develope new ones if the existing ones are not suitable
to express the bhavas. They are develped to enhnace the esthatic sense,
Nothing more and nothing less. That makes the poetry good or bad, old or
new. Old can fall flat like the new ones. Those that fall flat do not
last long. This applies to old as well as new to chando to non-chando
poems. Between Nannaya, tikkana and yerrapraggada there must have been
thousands of poets living and writing poetry and they got burried in time
without name and fame.
I was called by some one as chodOfanatic - I donot know much about chandas
- my knowledge is only 8 monts old and that too whatever I got from
Pillalamarri - But I do find some beauty in the metrical forms;
here is a simple example a common meter I see mostly in sanskrit: in each
of the four line:
taa taa ta - taa taa ta - ta taa ta - taa taa;
essentially ta,ta,ja, ga ga - ganas - an example or some time
imtermingled its cousin ja, ta, ja, ga ga -
Remainded me of the dO -rE mee fha song- It does not mean any thing until
you fit the words! - is itnot what the song says?
an example: From the slokas I wrote yesterday on my teacher for the
gurupurnima:
vaatsalya ruupam trigunairateetam
aanandasaadram amalairnidhaanam|
shrii chinma yaananda gurO praniitam
sadaa bhajatvam tava paada pankajam||
(there is nothing wrong in the last line) The last line is a litle
variation in the meter itself.
Most of the words familier paricularly to telugu people.
Bottom line - chandas is traditional and old, non chando is non-traditonal
is new does not make any sense to me. I donot know how many people really
agree with such classification.
Hari Om
Sadananda
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