Raga is not a note
Raga lives in a note
—between the notes.
Vina?
A fret has a mere note.
Like wind does,
in and around mother-earth,
raga-s dwell.
Make your fingers, your chords
the danseuses
—raga-s are,
fragrances so myriad.
II
Singer is seen
Song is not
Raga-nada-laya is not!
Danseuse is seen
dance is not!
Poet is seen
that, which a poem contains
—is not!
Grieving is seen
grief is not!
Faqir is seen
faqiri is not!
Words’ a mere crucible
exists solely to contain
—Arth
—flight
—is seen not!
One merely witnesses
the temple,
not the deity
—the pilgrim within.
Dance
Poetry
Song
do occur,
but, in the inner sanctum.
III
Music is both
Cause and Effect.
Swaying from Saagar, ocean
to Gaagar, pitcher
—to Saagar.
Like from water
vapour
clouds
—then bound as if
a composition each
set to tala-s very many,
rivers
waves
a sip, ik ghutt.
The composer
The composed
The confused
—all One.
For it is after all,
Muse-Ik..!
While sharing, a note or two, with Nirvair K Khalsa.
bbs. 2012 12 06.
Natick, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Anād Foundation 
Thank you, like a dance is not a sequence of steps, or a series of static poses, the music is in the movement?
See II.
Thank you for more clarity. The music is not the effect that is witnessed, but the cause that generates?
See III.
love it! muse-ik!
For he would know,
And him do I ask
Who has traveled with ragas
Who has been blown away by them
Who has felt their gush against the face of his soul
Who has been bound by them
Who has been liberated by them
For aren’t ragas too like winds
Winds which rummage through us
render our souls danseuses
for the fragrances,
missed but away and gone
Winds which dwell within us
render our souls nomads
hunters of fragrances
missed but found and lost
I do not tell
But merely ask
Please do dwell
Set me up a task
beautiful
His answer, when it comes, shall be more so 🙂