Match The Wavelength, Flow Like A Stream

 

Match The Wavelength, Flow Like A Stream

According news writer Arup Mitra from the Books of Speaking Tree

 In the Indic tradition of spiritual and cultural pursuits, classical music and dance play a pivotal role in exploring the depth of one's existence, offering unconditional joy to rejuvenate life thoroughly. The Natya Shastra of Bharat, a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts, is considered as the pancham, fifth, Ved. In fact, classical dance is treated as the greatest form of sadhana as it takes the body, mind and the inner existence to a state of high-level equilibrium. It helps open the doors to ultimate realisation.

The logicality which is involved in following the derivations of mathematical/statistical sciences is the same as that of pursuing the rhythm in music and dance. The first-time derivation of a density function and moment generating function of a random variable is a discovery –not innovation-because for a technical person it is the realisation of something which already exists. It is through the matching of the wavelength that one is able to perceive what flows like a stream. The analogy can be drawn to explain how rhythm works in us.

In fact, nothing exists without a cadence: starting from an atom to huge planets, everything is being set in a rhythmic motion. Because of this rhythm, the universe is a cosmos and not a chaos. The lord of the universe is conceptualised as a dancing manifestation- Nataraj: life and death, the twins, dance with every movement of the supreme dancer, as Tagore perceived.

It is the merging of the unheard and what can be TREE experienced through sense organs that gives us satiety.The inner spirit in us is restlessness, we try to trace the right track. Once one among us achieves it, the others also benefit. The Puranas say that Bhagirath with his untiring patience and perseverance brought the Ganga to the planes true, if the Ganga of knowledge can be discovered by one, many others can benefit.

All this concept of rhythm is not complex to understand. A little silence, a little withdrawal from the madding crowd is required to realise. Otherwise, the enormous potential of the mind remains lost in the midst of the daily trifles. Dhyan is nothing but a method to tune ourselves to catch the wavelength of that implicit rhythm which is in play in a continuous manner.

The greatest joy emanates as we are able to get that internal rhythm to flow in our day-to-day activity. This entails the creation of a new world because the internal rhythm is all-inclusive; it cannot entertain selfishness. In the welfare of the larger entity is involved the individual well-being: the vice versa may be true in a highly limited sense. Spiritualism always addresses the vast.