Welcome to Rhythm Divine! What if instead of Shri Krishna chanting the Bhagavad Gita to you in Sanskrit, He was rapping it to you in English? Would you resonate more with His message? A team from across North America, guided by Shri Vivek Gupta of Chinmaya Mission Niagara, has worked to make this a reality, translating the top 70 verses (10%) of the Bhagavad Gita into English, in the same meter as the original -- to bring the authentic message of the Divine into a modern rhythm for contemporary audiences. In this episode, we're tuning into the divine message from Chapters 4-6.
Welcome to Rhythm Divine! What if instead of Shri Krishna chanting the Bhagavad Gita to you in Sanskrit, He was rapping it to you in English? Would you resonate more with His message? A team from across North America, guided by Shri Vivek Gupta of Chinmaya Mission Niagara, has worked to make this a reality, translating the top 70 verses (10%) of the Bhagavad Gita into English, in the same meter as the original -- to bring the authentic message of the Divine into a modern rhythm for contemporary audiences. In this episode, we're tuning into the divine message from Chapters 4-6.
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Poets: Bhagavan Krishna, Shri Vivekji, and Sudarshan Atmavilas
Rappers: Sudarshan Atmavilas and Ananya Chakravarti
Singer: Divya Sundaram
Mridangam and Kanjira: Aryan Ramesh
Piano: Divya Sundaram
Bansuri: Chethan Anant
Producers: Chethan Anant and Divya Sundaram
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4-8
To protect all virtues & growth
To correct all vices-ego
To bring all back to evolving
Again-again, I manifest
4-13
Four personality types, I
Designed with qualities-actions
Although, true, I’m its designer
I’m non-doing, never changing
4-34
Know That Truth through full surrender,
Deep inquiry, serve your Master
He will guide you to that Knowledge,
You’ll be wise, see the Foundation
4-38
There ain’t no purifier like
Self-Knowledge in this world of change
One who’s evolved to Perfection
Feels this in their Core -- give it time
4 Chorus Sankalpa Vakya
Rhythm Divine, just follow His Call
Enter the Shrine, & surrender it all
Just by His Grace He comes to manifest
Revealing that Knowledge that we’re so blessed
5-7
Live for growth, with really pure mind
Conquer the ego, and senses
Feel Self in All as your Own Self
Though doing, truly just “Being”
5-17
Being That, That Reality
Established in That, That sole Goal
They go where there’s no returning
Knowledge destroying all vices
5-18
Having Knowledge, humility,
A teacher, cow, and elephant,
Dog, lazy, careless one too -- the
Wise see all with equal vision
5-22
Pleasures from external objects
Are only the source of sadness
They got a beginning and end
The wise ain’t elated by them
5 Chorus Sankalpa Vakya
Rhythm Divine, just follow His Call
Enter the Shrine, & surrender it all
Realize you’re not in control, it’s so freeing
Outside still acting, inside: just Being
6-5
Lift yourself by your Self alone
And don’t allow yourself to fall
You alone are your own best friend
You alone, your worst enemy
6-9
With the large-hearted, friends, hostile,
Indifferent, well-wishers, vengeful,
Relatives, selfless, selfish, Be
The same with them all -- you’ll excel
6-35
Undoubtedly, mighty-armed one
Your mind’s distracted and restless
But by practice, independence,
Kaunteya, you can be its boss
6-40
Partha, not in this world nor next
Is the sincere seeker destroyed
That striving seeker never will
Fall permanently, my dear son
6 Chorus Sankalpa Vakya
Rhythm Divine, just follow His Call
Enter the Shrine, & surrender it all
Takes so much training to feel that Salvation
It’s only possible through contemplation