Welcome to "Ssshhh!" (Shrudhi, Shruta, Shraddivam)

4/27/2013

Vak-devi by Gopal Kumawat

Shrudhi shruta shraddivam

Listen! You, who everyone has heard of. I will tell you something worth listening to!"

Welcome to the first entry of the new blog, "Sshhh!", a extemporaneous sharing of personal musings on sound and self. I've taken the title from the Vak Suktam, hymn 10.125 of the Rig Veda credited to female poet/rishi Vak Ambrini in which the goddess Vak — reputed to bring the world into being thru sound vibration — lets loose in a freestyle one-woman battle of braggadocio 2000BCE- style. "Listen, you!," she commands. "You, who everyone has heard of! You, who everyone speaks of! You, who are supposedly so famous!," she continues. "Listen to me. And I will tell you something worth listening to."

(Listen to all eight verses of the Vak Suktam being chanted by a group of men in the presence of Sai Baba>)

I'm no goddess (or am I? Aren't we all? But that's a different post...), but I do hope that the coming "Ssshhhhh!" entries will offer you something worth listening to, or at least inspire you to listen more deeply. This blog is as much about you as it is about me, so I would like to begin our conversation by asking:

"What do you find worth listening to?"

You have my attention — I'm listening!

13 Comments

Coral Cadman

4/27/2013 07:25:30 am

Lovely site, Ann. Looking forward to seeing you, soon! What is worth listening to?---Where to start!??

Ann

4/27/2013 02:47:56 pm

Thanks, Coral! It's just a start -- we'll see how it grows!

Stephanie Bruce link

4/28/2013 04:24:22 am

I live on a very noisy street. After 7 years in the presence of street traffic, a Bart station, a bus stop, a siren route, and freeway entrance, I have learned to tune out "noise". The music I listen to (currently in love with various African sounds - Cameroon, Mali), happens only when I can truly enjoy it. The rest of the time - my own mind is highly entertaining, so I converse with my various selves, sometimes in foreign accents of dubious origin.

Carla Koopal link

4/28/2013 10:14:43 am

...i listen to..:
* birds * Intuition * silence * progressive radio stations KALW & KPFA in the car daily as I drive from city to city to teach * foreign accents * world music as often as possible: I love for it to co-create my reality *

Rita Hurault

4/29/2013 01:31:41 am

Birds, rain, the ocean. My husband's voice (and breath at night ). Children conversing, young people in gaggles. My dad's grandfather clock ticking. Music of all kinds. Trains in the distance.

Ann Dyer link

4/29/2013 01:12:15 pm

Such beautiful sound images! thank you everyone for sharing.

Elaine

4/30/2013 11:57:48 am

I now (thanks to you and chanting) listen to everything, even the mad dogs barking! However, I have learned to hear without judgment and to listen with pleasure and discernment, if that makes sense. Keep the blogs coming!!

Ann

5/14/2013 04:22:39 am

God bless you, Elaine! And the mad dogs outside your window!

Julia

5/11/2013 12:48:38 pm

I was just wondering what Saraswati would think of this performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7UK-6aaNA

(John Cage said: "Everything we do is music" and I guess SHE would agree).

Ann Dyer Cervantes

5/14/2013 04:21:51 am

Oh, I think she would love it!

Graham Ajit Bond

5/16/2013 11:06:32 am

What do I find worth listening to? Well of course so many things are glorious, fascinating, entertaining in flashes - even "low-level" music/noise.
But I'm going to give the "pious" answer, because I know it's how the Indian tradition would respond...
All kind of music/poetry may have flashes of beauty, but.... as Leonard Cohen's "Halleluia" says... "They're not somebody who's seen the Light."
However,the words/songs of Great Beings are always worth listening to because they come from the ocean of Silence - ParaaVak. As Jnanadev says in "Jnaneshwari"... "They speak words which are oceans of nectar."

Graham Ajit Bond

5/16/2013 11:47:55 am

As a P.S... I may sound pretty "exclusive", but I feel ANYONE who's "seen the Light" is a mini-great-being and I love listening to songs/speech/poems from all the many levels of awakening.

Joan Bajsarowicz

5/18/2013 01:08:20 pm

The gods were very gracious when they gave us the “gift” of listening and hearing.
To appreciate-know-become one with SILENCE, we must have its opposite which is SOUND. Both are essential for Life and being!

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