Re: musings

Posted by Raga on December 06, 2007 at 11:36:21:

In Reply to: musings posted by MALLIKA on December 06, 2007 at 02:47:15:

Musing to myself too,
In my archaeological search I was drawn to read an abstracts of the book
Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture. By Yosef Garfinkel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 352 pp.
What I understood was that upto 5000 years ago there were plenty depictions of communal dance found on pottery ware , dance in the stone age seemed to have been a very spiritual function for many thousand years. I believe this did not disappear suddenly, as they say, but when monotheistic religion started 5000 years ago I found that the music still preserved in bharata natyam came into being. To me this danceform had been transformed then and preserves a spiritual massage far above commercial exploit. So if this can raise your soul to some ecstatic level, you achieved all you need. It may be too hazardous to communicate this to others.

Regarding talent, born with or not, I think little is understood. I once read „Sangita Ratnakara“, it had much to say how magical techniques can be employed to achieve excellence, but these are all not proven in
any way. But I found that for instance those who had a long family tradition in some field, say devadasis had developed so much natural talent that it might be impossible to learn that within one lifespan, no matter how much money one has available. This is probably not very much researched into yet.Thats just how I muse about it.