Warrier's Collage on June 15, 2025

Welcome To Warrier's COLLAGE On Sunday June 15, 2025 Friends Happy Birthday to all readers having Birthday during this week. Nice Day M G Warrier A Cover Story : Silence, Please By Vathsala Jayaraman, Chennai "Guide : I welcome you all to the Niagara Falls.. These are the world's largest waterfalls, the sound intensity of the waterfall is so high, even 20 supersonic planes passing by can't be heard. Now I request the Indian ladies to keep quiet, so that we can hear the Niagara Falls...!!!" For the past two months all the Hindu temples have been celebrating their annual festivals, all noise and noise alone. AADI MONTH INTENDED FOR AMMAN FESTIVALS IS FAST APPROACHING. Our house is surrounded by 4 Amman temples on all the 4 sides. AADI WILL ARRIVE WITH NOISE nothing but NOISE. While the entire world is against noise pollution and the feasibility of low decibles, we wonder how the loud noisy tradition was being encouraged by elders and organisers of these festivals from time immemorial. It is said that when an unborn child is developing, the first thing they hear is the heartbeat of the mother, so when we hear a drum or rhythmic beat in music we naturally feel the presence and comfort of the mother. The beating of the drum vibrates through our bodies and symbolizes the heartbeat of the mother. While beating the drum, it connects us with spirit and grounds us to mother earth. The connection and bond with this sound is healing and needed for each and every one of us. The element in which the drums are constructed from is completely natural and very spiritual in making the connection with spirit. This relationship begins through the artistic journey and the co-creation with you, the wood and the sacred hide used in the bonding union of your drum. To each of us this journey is very powerful with a meaning more unique as the bond of the drum and its creation connect them into one. The only thing more powerful will be to add song and prayer to your drumming journey. The Hindu festivals and weddings are interwoven with loud sounds. They use to say that the significance of Sakala Vadyam during 'Kaappu kattu', Upaveetha Dharanam and tieing of the sacred knot is more to avoid any inauspicious speeches heard from the congregation. Though some people argue that peace prevails only in silence, the research on acoustics suggests that sound is the basis on which silence can be enjoyed. Drumming for personal meditation and relaxation has its roots in prehistoric times. Stone age humans discovered that the beating of a drum had, not only a way of changing the way they felt about the world, but also to some degree seemed to assist the drummer in gaining control over a hostile environment. The range and subtleties of its notes have led others to claim that by using the drum as a vehicle for meditation, deeper states can be achieved in six minutes that would take a Siddha six hours to achieve. Children, however, have this unique ability in abundance because of their innocence. The repetitive rhythm is the key to this form of drumming. Regularity and monotony are more important than the speed. As the brain begins to track the beat everyday, part of the brain becomes mesmerized and begins to release its control over the senses and conscious awareness. This is what makes us relaxed. In fact, what the brain is actually tracking is not the beat itself but the tonal resonance given off by the drum as it is struck, this resonance is the drum's own note and not the one being played by the drummer, and the result is to send the person into a light dreamlike state closer to sleep than wakefulness. In this respect the trance rhythms are very effective in stress reduction, relaxation and mood changing experiences. Noise, Noise, Noise getting transformed to peace, peace, peace. Vathsala Jayaraman Collage Bonus : The Music of the Plants https://amzn.in/d/eV5TYZR B Surprise Gift 🎁 I participated in a Seven Days Art of Living Basic Course (Sri Sri Ravishankar) some 20 years ago. On the last day of the program, the Course Coordinator asked each participant to answer this question : "Where you will live, once you leave this planet?" Participants were not allowed to share ideas. My answer was : "In whatever remains of my work, good, bad or ugly and in the memories of those who interact with me when I walked here" Remembered this reading Dr Lakshmanan's response* on receipt of my book "Open Book of Happy Memories". These are some moments when we forget our regrets about our overstay on this planet 🙏 *Excerpts from Dr Lakshmanan's response to his batchmate, my BiL Dr Surendran : He seems to be a great personality in the fields of banking and financial journalism and literature. I am a novice and layman in the field! So it may be outrageous on my part to engage in any debate with him. I am satisfied and grateful that he has acknowledged the salient points in my post as true! He says that the ideas of liberalisation, and globalisation and PPP all evolved before the days of Modi entering the arena! Quite true. Every idea or theory has a certain time to get mature and flourish and once that time has arrived, no force can stop it. Though the ideas of liberalisation and PPP etc. originated much earlier, it took time to get mature and flourish. And incidentally Modi and his government could reap the benefits!! Take for example, the lightening speed with which National Highways are being built these days involving investment of lakhs in crores of rupees. These were unthinkable, may be 10 years back. Will it be audacious on my part if I would like to know whether the Jalan Committee report was influenced politically? What was the basis on which the upper limit for RBI reserves was fixed at 7,5%? 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