Its nikhil.kodilkar_at_ btw, you'll need a bittorrent client to download the mp3s from the above site. Any idea about the music director ? 10:55 PM Anonymous said.įorgot to mention my name & id. The music and voice of the songs are really hypnotic, I have downloaded the MP3s and I listen to it everyday. I had the line engrained in my memory ! Was searching for the meanings and the exact shloka. This post just made my DAY !!!!!!!! Awesome !!!!!!! If you want the starting and ending songs of this serial, check, they have it out there ! I could relate to what a number of people have written out here. can someone find the starting score in Mp3 that would be great. Hi Venkat, God bless you and the rest on the post for your effort. my id is regards, Nagesh 12:04 PM Nagesh Pai said. can anyone find a MP3 recording of that theme? let me know. hmmm, i'm surprised i remembered this much. Srishti se pehle sath nahi tha asath bhi nahi antariksh bhi nahi akaash bhi nahi tha chupa tha kya kahaan, kisne dhaka tha etc. Look who's here!!! LOL! 5:50 PM Anonymous said. May God bless you for posting this translation. Viswesh, a quick search on google showed up this: 5:50 AM anantha said. Thanks, Douglas Adams.Ĭan you post the original shloka too!! ( in english or devanagri if you please) viswesh 9:00 PM Venkat said. That this comes from a "religious" source like the Rig Veda makes it all the more startling.įor the likes of me, 42 sounds like a perfect answer to the big Question of the Life, Universe and Everything. "He surely knows, or maybe He does Not" (know the Answer). The twist in the last couple of lines of the Nasadiya Sukta still astounds me. What still amazes me is that the line of thinking behind this poetry is so bloody advanced- Imagine, 5000 years ago, people were contemplating philosophy, and making deeply existential enquiries into the beginning of creation.Īnd 5000 years hence, I am still coming to terms with where my next meal is going to come from (being a vegetarian in Singapore is notoriously difficult!) Then who can tell from whence it came to be? Whence was it born? Whence issued this creation? Who really knows? Who can presume to tell it? Thrust from below and forward move above. The Seers, searching in their hearts with wisdom,ĭiscovered the connection of Being in Nonbeing.Ī crosswise line cut Being from Nonbeing.īearers of seed there were and mighty forces, Stirring, through power of Ardor, came to be. That which was hidden by Void, that One, emerging, The One breathed without breath by its own impulseĭarkness was there, all wrapped around by darkness, There was no death then, nor yet deathlessness What was wrapping? Where? In whose protection?
Here's a translation from Sanskrit (by Prof: Raimundo Panikkar, courtesy Google) Many years later, I discovered that the theme was the Nasadiya Sukta from the Rig Veda. it had this strange, almost hypnotic effect on me. I remember sleepy Sunday nights when I would be quietly captivated by the gravelly voices of Om Puri and Roshan Seth (as Nehru) recounting the 5000 year history of India from Vedic times to the modern-day independance struggle.īut the thing that instantly hooked me on was the title theme. I mean, he directed the teleseries, not the childhood. This was a long running teleseries which formed an integral part of my childhood, directed by the venerable Mr. Twenty years on I continue to be fascinated.After months of trawling through a million sites with Google, I finally manage to hunt down the title credits theme from Bharat Ek Khoj- A Discovery of India. I can safely say, it was this discovery that first made me sit up and take notice of Hinduism. I read it over and over again, hardly believing this gem I had found. I still remember the day I stumbled upon this, twenty years ago, in a deserted library in Connecticut, US.
Why does religion have to have all the answers? Perhaps the joy is in contemplation. The questioning of everything, even God ! And the acceptance of ‘not-knowing’. This extraordinarily beautiful hymn called Nasadiya Sukta is from the Rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedas dating back to at least 5000 years.Īnd yet how modern it is. (translated by V.V Raman, University of Rochester)
Leaving with you one of my favourite hymns from the Rig Veda as I take a short sabbatical from the blog to deal with more pressing commitments and generally get a handle on my life :)