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Vande Mataram
MUSIC IS FORMAT OF SOUL CONTENT.
AND, ALL NATIONAL SONGS INSPIRE DEDICATED UNITY OF PEOPLE TOWARDS INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES.
ALSO, SANSKRIT IS A DIFFICULT LANGUAGE, MORE SO WHEN IT COMES TO SINGING IN SANSKRIT TO A TUNE WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO INSPIRE NATIONAL FERVOR.
ONLY SANSKRIT SCHOLARS CAN SING "VANDE MATARAM" VERBATIM WITH THE FULL PURPORT OF ITS CONTENT.
BUT THAT WOULD MEAN ONLY SANSKRIT SCHOLARS CAN MAKE A CLAIM TOWARDS PATRIOTISM.
THE COMMON MAN ON THE STREET, IRRELEVANT OF THE RELIGION, WOULD WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FERVOR TOO.
FOR THEM, THE FIRST STANZA OF THE SONG IS ALONE ENOUGH TO INSPIRE THE RUSH OF PATRIOTISM.
ALSO, IT IS THE FORCE OF THE TUNE THAT INSPIRES THE BLOOD RUSH MORE THAN THE LYRICS OF THE SONG.
"VANDE MATARAM" MEANS "MOTHER, I BOW TO THEE".
THE SONG IS A TRIBUTE TO MOTHERHOOD.
SOME NATIONS REFER TO THEIR HOMELAND AS FATHERLAND.
SOME NATIONS REFER TO THEIR HOMELAND AS MOTHERLAND.
IS FATHERHOOD SUPERIOR TO MOTHERHOOD?
OR, IS MOTHERHOOD SUPERIOR TO FATHERHOOD?
OR, IS CHILDHOOD SUPERIOR TO BOTH FATHERHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD?
EACH CITIZEN IS THE CHILD OF HIS OR HER HOMELAND.
WITHOUT FATHERHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD THERE IS NO CHILDHOOD.
CHILDHOOD IS THE COMBINATION OF BOTH FATHERHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD.
TO SING PRAISES OF OWN FATHER OR MOTHER IS ALWAYS UNDERSTANDABLE.
THE CHILD GLOWS IN BLISS WHEN IT SINGS PRAISES OF ITS FATHER OR MOTHER OR BOTH.
LIKENING OF EARTH TO MOTHER NATURE IS NATURAL BECAUSE WE ARE ALL HELPLESS CHILDREN INFRONT OF NATURE OF WHICH WE ARE MADE AND WHICH GIVES US BIRTH.
SO TO SING PRAISES OF ONE'S ONE OWN COUNTRY IN THE FORMAT OF MOTHER NATURE IS UNDERSTANDABLE.
ALSO, PATRIOTISM IS A STATE OF THE HEART AND NOT OF THE HEAD.
THUS IT CANNOT BE FORCED UPON THE CITIZENS OF ANY COUNTRY.
IT HAS TO BE INSPIRED.
THE FIRST STANZA OF "VANDE MATARM" FORTUNATELY HAS BOTH QUALITIES OF PRAISE FOR THE LAND WHICH INDIANS LIVE UPON AND THE FERVOR OF THE TUNE ITSELF ALONG WITH ITS CHORUS AND BACKUP VOCALS.
ALSO, THE FIRST STANZA DOES NOT REFER TO THE LORD GOD IN ANY WAY.
SO, THE FIRST STANZA, IN ITSELF, DOES NOT RAISE THE TOPIC OF THE VARIOUS FORMATS OF GOD WORSHIP AND THEIR DIFFERENCES IN OPINION.
HENCE THERE IS NO ISSUE OF A RELIGIOUS DISPUTE IF THE CITIZENS OF THE COUNTRY WANT TO UNITEDLY SING THE FIRST STANZA IN ITS FULL GUSTO.
THE REST OF THE SONG CAN BE SUNG BY THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE SINGING AND WANT TO SING IT OF FREE WILL, A SECTION OF PEOPLE WHO CAN SPEAK SANSKRIT AND SINGERS WHO WISH TO SING THE REST OF THE SONG FOR ITS MUSICAL BLEND WITH RELATIVELY ALIEN LYRICS.
SUCH A GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE IN THE MINORITY ANYWAYS AS MOST INDIANS CAN NOT COMMUNICATE IN SANSKRIT.
INDIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHERE ALL FORMATS OF RELIGION EXIST TOGETHER, MOSTLY PEACEFULLY.
EACH INDIAN KNOWS THIS SUBTLE FACT AND MUST BE PROUD OF IT.
THAT IS THE STRENGTH OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.
THE POLITICIANS OF THE COUNTRY MUST USE THIS FACT FOR PROGENERATION INSTEAD OF DEGENERATION.
THE COUNTRY MUST LEAD THE WAY IN THE GLOBAL PEACE PROCESS.
"BHARAT BHAGYA VIDHATA".
(PATRIOTISM IS NOT SINGING A SONG. IT IS THE BLOOD RUSH THAT THE MUSICAL TUNE INSTIGATES.)
(IT IS THE FORCE OF THE MUSICAL TUNE, AND NOT THE FULL PURPORT OF THE LYRICS, THAT INSPIRES HUMANS TO WILLINGLY SACRIFICE THEIR OWN LIVES.)
(SADLY, AFTER ALL THE CONTROVERSY AND CONFUSION, NO ONE SANG THE SONG IN THE FERVOR IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SUNG WITH.)
(THE VARIOUS POPULAR ARTISTIC VERSIONS ONLY ADDED TO THE CHAOS IN WHICH THE TUNE, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUNG, GOT LOST AMONGST THE NATION'S OVER-ENTHUSIASTICALLY VICARIOUS RIDE TO PATRIOTISM.)
(IT IS INDEED SAD THAT PEOPLE USE ANCIENT CULTURE TO STAY IN THE NEWS RATHER THAN PAY TRIBUTE TO THE VERY EMOTIONS THAT ORIGINATED THAT PARTICULAR CULTURE.)
AMEN.
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