The ancient innovations in India: beyond philosophy, theology and logical thinking of millenniums...

Dear all,

Following from some of the articles shared with my university alumni during 2002-04 I read in books and internet websites those days..

What they say…

"Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago."

- GRANT DUFF, British Historian of India.

 " If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point out to India."

- MAX MULLER(German Scholar. 1823 - 1900).

 "There can no longer be any real doubt that both Islam and Christianity owe the foundations of both their mystical and scientific achievements to Indian initiatives"

- PHILIP RAWSON (British Orieantalist)

Australian Historian ARTHUR BASHAM writes,...

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"The ancient civilization of India existed long before the sun rose on the kingdoms of Egypt or set on the Roman Empire; even before it sparkled upon the Chinese civilization. When much of Europe was still sunk in sleep, Hindu astronomers were mapping the skies, doctors were performing surgery and seers were composing scriptures".

 "The truth of the culture aims to sustain the whole of creation, not just one particular species or group. It promotes a civilization founded on the spiritual principles and not just reason and inquiry. Hence, this Culture has survived for millennia, uninterrupted even by the innumerable intrusions and invasions. And despite these continual provocations,

history shows that the Indians have remained silent, never aggravated into war or enemity".

 "The ancient civilization of India differs from those of Egypt, Mesopotamia & Greece, in that its traditions have been preserved without break to the present day."

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 "If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when Man began the dream of existence, it is India."

- ROMAIN ROLLAND - French Philosopher 1886-1944

 The examples of elements of material culture and civilization that originated in ancient India and which the world owes to the genius of ancient Indian scientists and inventors...

 - the technique of manufacturing crystal (sugar)cane sugar (the word sugar is derived from the Sanskrit term "Sharkara").

- the making of camphor (this word is derived from the Sanskrit root word "Karpuram" according to Oxford Dictionary).

- the making of tin (the technical English word for tin is Cassiterite which is said to have been derived from the Sanskrit term "Kasthira").

- the distillation of perfumes.

- the weaving of cotton (muslin) cloth.

- the techniques of algebra and algorithm, the concept of zero.

- the technique of surgery.

- the concepts of atom and relativity.

- the principle of magnetism actually utilised in making a Mariner's Compass.

- the herbal system of medicine.

- the technique of alchemy.

- the smelting of metals:

 - According to information culled out from various Roman and Greek texts, metals like iron, gold, tin, copper and brass were imported from India.

- Other items like glass, ceramics, ivory, betel nuts and betel leaves, areca nuts and even rice were exported from ancient India.

By or before 100 BC, The decimal system flourished in India:

"It was India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by the means of ten symbols (Decimal system)... a profound and important idea which escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two greatest men produced by antiquity"

- LA PLACE.

 The highest prefix used for raising 10 to a power in today's maths, is 'D' for 10^30 (from Greek Deca). While, as early as 100BC Indian Mathematicians had exact names for figures upto 10^53.

ekam = 1, dashakam = 10

... dashalakshaha = 10^6, kotihi = 10^7, ...

vishamagnagatihi = 10^47 , sarvagnaha = 10^49, vibhutangama = 10^51, tallakshanam = 10^53

 Sanskrit - The Mother of Languages:

- The Sanskrit language is the oldest, most systematic language that has survived the longest period through history.

 - It has the power of expressing all types of thoughts in their appropriate terminology - from mythology to literature, science to philosophy, poetry to prosody, astronomy to anatomy, as well as, genetics, mathematics, and cosmology.

 - An amazing wealth of words and synonyms gives a great versatility to expression power. With 65 words for Earth and 70 for Water (Each word being originally Sanskrit, not derived from any other language).

 Astronomy:

Indian Astronomers have been mapping the skies for 3,500 to 4000 years.

1,000 years before Copernicus:

Copernicus published his theory of revolution of the Earth in 1543. A thousand years before him, Aryadhatta in the 5th Century (400-500 AD) stated that the Earth revolves around the Sun. In his treatise Aryabhatteeam, he clearly states that Earth is round, rotates on its axis, orbits the sun and is suspended in space. And explains that lunar and solar eclipses occur by the interplay of the sun, the moon and the Earth.

 500 years before Newton:

The Law of Gravity was known to the ancient Indian astronomer Bhaskaracharya. In his Surya Siddhanta, he notes : "Objects fall on the Earth, Planets, Constellations, Moon and Sun are held in orbit due to attraction." It was not until the late 17th Century in 1687, 1,200 years later, that Sir Issac Newton re-discovered the Law of Gravity.

Measurement of Time:

34,000th of a Second TO 4.32 Billion Years India has given the idea of the smallest and largest measure of time.

Krati = 34,000th of a second, 1 Truti = 300th of a second, 2 Truti = 1 Luv, 2 Luv = 1 Kshana

30 Kshana = 1 Vipal, ... 432 Sahasrabda = 1 Yug (Kaliyug), 2 Yug = 1 Dwaparyug, 3 Yug = 1 Tretayug

4 Yug = 1 Krutayug, 10 Yug = 1 Mahayug(4,320,000Yrs), 1000 Mahayug = 1 Kalpa, 1 Kalpa = 4.32 Billion Years

World's First University - Takshashila:

about University at Takshashila:

- Not only Indians but students from as far as Babylonia, Greece, Syria, Arabia and China came to study.

- 68 different streams of knowledge were on the syllabus.

- A wide range of subjects were taught by experienced masters: Vedas, Language, Grammar, Philosophy, Medicine, Surgery, Archery, Politics, Warfare, Astronomy,  Accounts, Commerce, Documentation, Music, Dance, etc.

- The minimum entrance age was 16 and there were 10,500 students.

 Have a look on the Sloka (couplet) from the Atharva Veda which embodies the true spirit of humanness expressed, Not Today, but Four Thousand years ago.

"We are the birds of the same nest, We may wear different skins,

We may speak different languages, We may believe in different religions,

We may belong to different cultures, Yet we share the same home - OUR EARTH".

"Born on the same planet, Covered by the same skies, Gazing at the same stars

Breathing the same air, We must learn to happily progress together,

Or miserably perish together, For man can live individually, But can survive only collectively".

India’s legacy is that can help human beings in all corners of our globe to rejuvenate our spirit:

not to conquer one another, but to conquer oneself;

not to destroy, but to build;

not to hate, but to love;

not to isolate oneself, but to integrate everyone

into one global society and to achieve much more in

the future to enrich human civilization to result in:

 "The maximum welfare of the maximum number" or as in Sanskrit it is called: "Loko Samasto Sukhino Bhavantu" and "Samasta Janaanaam Sukhino Bhavantu."

In my personal views, a fun and intuitive way, a "law of reflection of thoughts"...

The length of period of thought source at history equals the length of period of visualized object of future! I mean, history should be used as the preventive medicine for the present and future errors of human beings.

 That is, the more length of period we can look back and learn from history (which includes all -isms, -ions, -logies, -tals, and -ics of past time of universe), the more focused and long distanced vision and visualizing power each of us can get.

regards,

Rajesh Sulabha.

Highlights of 9000 Years History of India

Dear all,
Have a nice day.
Following from some of the articles to my university alumni during 2002-05.
Subject: Highlights of History of India since 7000 BC.
Motivation: To convey the fact that there is more of India than Gandhi, freedom fights movements and the unfortunate political dramas of the recent past 400 years of India.

7000 BC: Indus-Sarasvati area residents of Mehrgarh grow barley, raise sheep and goats. They store grain, and construct buildings of sun-baked mud bricks.

6500 BC: Rig Veda verses say winter solstice begins in Aries (according to Dr. Frawley), indicating the antiquity of this section of the Vedas.

6000 BC: Early sites on the Sarasvati River, then India's largest, flowing west of Delhi into the Rann of Kutch; Rajasthan is a fertile region with much grassland, as described in the Rig Veda. The culture, based upon barley (yava), copper (ayas) and cattle, also reflects that of the Rig Veda.

5500 BC: Mehrgarh villagers are making baked pottery and thousands of small, clay female figurines and are involved in long-distance trade in precious stones and sea shells.

5000 BC: Beginnings of Indus-Sarasvati civilizations of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Brick fire altars exist in many houses, suggesting Vedic fire rites, yajna. This mature culture will last 3,000 years, ending around 1700 BC.

4000 BC: Excavations from this period at Sumerian sites of Kish and Susa reveal existence of Indian trade products.

3928 BC: July 25th, the earliest eclipse mentioned in the Rig Veda (according to Indian researcher Dr. Shri P.C. Sengupta).

3100 BC: Early Vedic period ends, late Vedic period begins. India includes Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia.

2600 BC: Indus-Sarasvati civilization reaches a height it sustains until 1700 BC. Spreading from Pakistan to Gujarat, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, it is the largestof the world's three oldest civilizations with links to Mesopotamia, Afghanisthan, Central Asia and Karnataka.- Major portions of the Veda hymns are composed during the reign of Vishvamitra I (Dating by Dr. S.B.Roy).

2500 BC: Main period of Indus-Sarasvati cities. Culture relies heavily on rice and cotton, as mentioned in Atharva Veda. Ninety percent of sites are along the Sarasvati, the region's agricultural bread basket.

2300 BC: Sargon founds Mesopotamian kingdom of Akkad, trades with Indus-Sarasvati Valley cities.- Indo-Europeans in Russia's Ural steppelands develop efficient spoked-wheel chariot technology, using 1,000-year-old horse husbandry and freight-cart technology.

2050 BC: Vedic people are living in Persia and Afghanistan.

2000 BC: Indo-Europeans (Celts, Slavs, Lithuanians, Ukranians) follow cosmology, theology, astronomy, ritual, society and marriage that parallel early Vedic patterns.

1900 BC: Drying up of Sarasvati River, end of Indus-Sarasvati culture. After this, the center of civilization in ancient India relocates from the Sarasvati river to the Ganga river, along with possible migration of Vedic peoples out of India to the Near East.

1500 BC: Submergence of the stone port city of Dwarka near Gujarat, where early Brahmi script, India's ancient alphabet, is used. Recent excavation by Dr. S.R. Rao said its larger than Mohenjo-daro. Indicates second urbanization phase of India between Indus-Sarasvati sites like Harappa and later cities on the Ganga.- Indigenous iron technology in Dwarka and Kashmir.

1450 BC: Early Upanishads are composed during the next few hundred years, also Vedangas and Sutra literature.

1316 BC: Mahabharata epic poem composed by Sage Vyasa.

1300 BC: Panini composes Ashtadhyayi, systematizing Sanskrit grammar in 4,000 rules.

975 BC: King Hiram of Phoenicia, for the sake of King Solomon of Israel, trades with the port of Ophir (Sanskrit: Supara) near modern Bombay, showing the trade between Israel and India. Same trade goes back to Harappan era.

950 BC: Jewish people arrive in India in King Solomon's merchant fleet. Later Jewish colonies find India a tolerant home. Gradual breakdown of Sanskrit as a spoken language occurs over the next 200 years.

900 BC: Iron Age in India. Early use dates to at least 1500 BC.

800 BC: Upanishads are recorded. Later smriti is composed, elaborated and developed during next 1,000 years.

750 BC: Priestly Sanskrit is gradually refined over next 500 years, taking on its classical form.

700 BC: Life of Zoroaster of Persia, founder of Zoroastrianism. His holy book, Zend Avesta, contains many verses from the Rig and Atharva Veda. His strong distinctions between good and evil set the dualistic tone of God and Devil which distinguishes later Western religions.

623 BC to 543 BC: Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, born in north east of India.

600 BC: Life of Sushruta, of Varanasi, the father of surgery. His ayurvedic treatises cover pulse diagnosis, hernia, cataract, cosmetic surgery, medical ethics, 121 surgical implements, antiseptics, use of drugs to control bleeding, toxicology, psychiatry, classification of burns, midwifery, surgical anesthesia and therapeutics of garlic.

599 BC to 527 BC: Lifetime of Mahavira Vardhamana, revered renaissance Jain master. His teachings stress strict codes of vegetarianism, asceticism and nonviolence.

560 BC: In Greece, Pythagoras teaches math, music, vegetarianism and yoga along knowledge/cultural exchanges from ancient India's wisdom ways.

500 BC: Dams to store water are constructed in India.Over the next 300 years (according to the later dating of Muller) numerous secondary scriptures (smriti) are composed: Shrauta Sutras, Grihya Sutras, Dharma Sutras, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Puranas, etc.

500 BC: Tamil Sangam age begins. Agastya writes Agattiyam, first known Tamil grammar. Tolkappiyar writes Tolkappiyam Purananuru, also on grammar; gives rules for absorbing Sanskrit words into Tamil.
Other famous works from the Sangam age are the poetical collections Paripadal, Pattuppattu, Ettuthokai Purananuru, Akananuru, Aingurunuru, Padinenkilkanakku.

400 BC: Panini composes Sanskrit grammar, the Ashtadhyayi.

350 BC: Rainfall is measured by Indian scientists.

326 BC: Alexander the Great of Greece invades, but fails to conquer, Northern India. His soldiers mutiny. He leaves India the same year. Greeks who remain in India intermarry with Indians. Interchanges of philosophy influence both civilizations. Greek sculpture impacts Indian styles.

305 BC: Chandragupta Maurya, founder of first pan-Indian empire; at its height under Emperor Ashoka, the Mauryan Empire includes all India except the far South of India.

302 BC: Kautilya (Chanakya), minister to Chandragupta Maurya, writes Arthashastra, a compendium of laws, administrative procedures and political advice for running a kingdom.

302 BC: In Indica, Megasthenes, envoy to King Seleucus, reveals to Europe in colorful detail the wonders of Mauryan India: an opulent society with abundant agriculture, engineered irrigation and 7 professional classes: philosophers, farmers, soldiers, herdsmen, artisans, magistrates and counselors.

273 BC: Ashoka , grandson of Chandragupta, is coronated. Repudiating conquest through violence after his brutal invasion of Kalinga, he converts to Buddhism. Excels at public works and sends diplomatic peace missions to Persia, Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Crete, and Buddhist missions to Sri Lanka, China and other Southeast Asian countries.

200 BC: Lifetime of Tiruvalluvar, poet-weaver who lived near present-day Madras, author of Tirukural, "Holy Couplets," the classic Tamil work on ethics and statecraft (sworn on in today's South Indian law courts).

145 BC: Chola Empire of Tamil Nadu is founded, rising from modest beginnings to a height of government organization and artistic accomplishment, including the development of enormous irrigation works.

10 BC: Ilangovadikal, son of King Cheralathan of the Tamil Sangam age, writes the outstanding epic Silappathikaram, classical Tamil treatise on music and dance.

...and the start of A.Ds....

4 AD: Jesus of Nazareth, founder of Christianity, is born in Bethlehem (current Biblical scholarship).

80 AD to 180 AD: Lifetime of Charaka. Court physician of the Kushan king, he formulates a code of conduct for doctors of ayurveda and writes Charaka Samhita, a manual of medicine.- Lifetime of Shandilya, first systematic promulgator of the ancient Pancharatna doctrines.- Zhang Qian of China establishes trade routes to India and as far west as Rome, later known as the "Silk Roads/Routes".

175 AD: Greek astronomer Ptolemy, known as Asura Maya in India, explains solar astronomy, Surya Siddhanta, to Indian students of the science of the stars.

200 AD: Indian kingdoms established in Cambodia and Malaysia.

205 AD to 270 AD: Lifetime of Plotinus, Egyptian-born monistic Greek philosopher and religious genius who transforms a revival of Platonism in the Roman Empire into what present-day scholars call Neoplatonism, which greatly influences Islamic and European thought.

350 AD: Imperial Gupta dynasty flourishes. During this "Classical Age" norms of literature, art, architecture and philosophy are established.

350 AD: Lifetime of Kalidasa, the great Sanskrit poet and dramatist, author of Shakuntala and Meghaduta.

400 AD: Laws of Manu (Manu Dharma Shastras) written. Its 2,685 verses codify cosmogony, four ashramas, government, domestic affairs, and morality.- Shaturanga, Indian forerunner of chess, has evolved from Ashtapada, a board-based race game, into a four-handed war game.
- Vatsyayana writes Kamasutra, famous text on erotics.

450 AD to 535 AD: Life of Bodhidharma of South India, 28th patriarch of India's Dhyana Buddhist sect, founder of Ch'an Buddhism in China, known as Zen in Japan.

499 AD: Aryabhata I, Indian astronomer and mathematician, using Indian numerals accurately calculates pi to 3.1416, and the solar year to 365.3586805 days.

500 AD: Sectarian folk traditions are revised, elaborated and reduced to writing as the Puranas, encyclopedic compendium of culture and mythology.

570 AD to 632 AD: Lifetime of Mohammed, preacher, founder of Islam. Begins to preach in Mecca, calling for an end to the "demons and idols" of Arab religion and conversion to the ways of the one God, Allah.

598 AD to 665 AD: Lifetime of Brahmagupta, preeminent Indian astronomer, who writes on gravity and sets forth the astronomical system in his Brahma Sphuta Siddhanta. Two of 25 chapters are on sophisticated mathematics.

600 AD: Life of Banabhatta, master of Sanskrit prose, author of Harshacharita and Kadambari.

610 AD: Muhammed begins prophecies (to Mecca in 622)

630 AD: Vagbhata writes Ashtanga Sangraha on Ayurveda.

630 AD to 644 AD: Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang (Huan Zang) travels in India, recording voluminous observations. Nalanda Buddhist university (his biographer writes) has 10,000 residents, including 1,510 teachers, and thousands of manuscripts.

650 AD: More than 60 Chinese monks have traveled to India and her colonies. Four hundred Sanskrit works have been translated into Chinese, 380 survive to thepresent day.

750 AD: Indian astronomer and mathematician travels to Baghdad, with Brahmagupta's Brahma Siddhanta (treatise on astronomy) which he translates into Arabic, bestowing decimal notation and use of zero on Arab world.- Valmiki writes 29,000-verse Yoga Vasishtha.

788 AD: Adi Shankara (788-820) is born in Malabar, famous monk philosopher who writes mystic poems and scriptural commentaries including Viveka Chudamani, and regularizes ten monastic orders called Dashanami.

1017 AD to 1137 AD: Life of Ramanuja of Kanchipuram, Tamil philosopher.

1440 AD to 1518 AD: Lifetime of Kabir. (his Hindi songs remain immensely popular to the present day).

1469 AD to 1538 AD: Lifetime of Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, originally a reformist sect of Hinduism stressing devotion and faith in guru.

1498 AD: Portugal's Vasco da Gama sails around Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala, first European to find sea route to India.

1520 AD: Poet Purandardas (1480-1564) of the Vijayanagara court systematizes Carnatak music.

1589 AD: Akbar rules half of India, shows tolerance for all faiths.

1647-49 AD: Shah Jahan completes Taj Mahal in Agra beside Yamuna River. Its construction has taken 20,000 laborers 15 years. Also Red Fort is completed in Delhi.

1780 AD to 1830 AD: Golden era of carnatic music. Composers include Thyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shastri.

1803 AD to 1882 AD: Lifetime of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet who popularize Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads in US.

1800 AD to 1947 AD: British-ruling of India and freedom fights of Gandhi and team till independence in 1947!.

For reference:
1. Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar (1993) By Konrad Elst.
2. Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization (1995) By N.S. Rajaram and David Frawley (World Heritage Press)
3. Dawn and Development of the Indus Civilization (1991) By S.R. Rao.
4. The Astronomical Code of India (1992) By Subhash Kak.
5. Aryan Invasion of India: The Myth and the Truth By N.S. Rajaram.

regards,
Rajesh Sulabha.

'Scientific form of Music' or "Saasthreeya Sangeetham"

From: Rajesh Sulabha
Date: Fri Mar 14, 2003

To: Macemates <macemates@yahoogroups.com>

CC: macebangalore@yahoogroups.com, computers97@yahoogroups.com

Subject: If you can walk you can dance, If you can talk you can sing...!

Dear All,
The motivation for writing this is some of the fun debates with my x-colleagues, and some great learning, on the topic during 2002-03:

Carnatic classical music and the healing positive powers of “saasthreeya sangeetham" or 'scientific form of music' or Carnatic classical music. And about the effectiveness, with which it can build positive mental discipline, eliminate negative mental habits and help to focus and organize thoughts.

First of all,
I love to share the highlights of the thought sharing (in my ex-colleagues’s E-group) of one of our talented musician, Manasan Parassini, who is a senior IT professional working in UK for last some years. His, the below pasted, thoughts is the motivation and inspiration for this column.

If I share my thankful appreciation about thoughts of Manasan on classical music, I would say, "some of his points I would not have come to know in my whole lifetime".

-----By Manasan Parassini (March’2003)-----
Many people hesitate to admit the fact that music is a science. Music/Sound has many powers and we all experience how a good tune can alleviate our tensions. Once more I am quoting  Sankaracharya, he says in Yoga Taaravali, “By one who is desirous of attaining perfection in Yoga, 'Nada' alone has got to be closely heard, having abandoned all thoughts and with a calm mind.”

There are very convincing theories about music/sound in "Nada Yoga" and "Nada Bindu Upanishad", sound can give negative effects as well as positive effects, the mantras like “hreeeeem hraaaam” it doesn’t have any meaning, but it can create certain vibrations in our body and cure or create some problems, how is it possible? Because sound can potentially rearrange molecular structure within the body and it is a proven fact.

Not only in India, music has played a significant role in the healing of humankind. Music and healing were communal activities that were natural to everyone.

In ancient Greece, Apollo was both the god of music and medicine. Ancient Greeks said, "Music is an art imbued with power to penetrate into the very depths of the soul. These beliefs were shared through their doctrine of Ethos. In the mystery schools of Egypt and Greece, healing and sound were considered a highly developed sacred science.

And in India until about a thousand years ago there was no such thing as `concerts' in the Indian
tradition. There was no `performance' of music or dance or singing. Music was attached or confined to the temples for sacred ceremonies and rituals. They were not entertainment forms of music, but very potent sound formulas. They are like different elements; you put them together and you get a certain effect.

So these sound formulas were used in ancient times to bring tranquility and peace to agitated minds and tired bodies, as well as to change and transform the listener. On the one hand it had a therapeutic effect; to heal disease, to heal sickness. On the other hand its aim was to focus the attention of people who came to the temple – towards one-pointedness.

When we are centered and one-pointed our lives take on a different meaning. When, on the other hand, our minds are scattered, the way we experience things is also influenced. So in order to achieve that focus, music was instrumental.
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- What they Say...

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Albert Einstein:
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. (When asked about his theory of relativity).

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (on DEC. 15, 2002), the President of India.
"Music can bring peace and harmony in the universe as it unifies minds and hearts of people transcending all geographical boundaries”. “Music had a divine power that could generate peace, happiness and harmony and he had the confidence that it could provide a permanent solution to various problems the mankind faced today".

William Shakespeare:
If music be the food of love, play on: give me excess of it.

Plato:
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

Pythagoras:
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

Benjamin Britten:
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Arthur Winter:
Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Henri Frederic Amiel:
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both. Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Ludwig Van Beethoven:
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

George Eliot (1819-80), [Mary Ann Evans] British writer:
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Charlie Parker:
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

James Taylor:
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), [Lord Byron] English romantic poet.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Truman Capote (1924-84), American novelist, short-story writer, Breakfast at Tiffany's:
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Eric Anderson:
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit—enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Samuel Butler (1612-80), English poet, author
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

i). What is Carnatic Music? and Why?
http://www.carnatic.com/

ii) CMANA, Carnatic Music Association of North America Established in 1976, is a Tax-Exempt, Non-profit organization registered in New York and New Jersey. The objective of CMANA is to promote learning and understanding of Carnatic music and related fine arts in North America.
http://www.cmana.org/

Enjoy your music…!

regards,
Rajesh Sulabha