Mulla Nasrudin stopped his wife from jumping off a bridge. "If you jump in," he pleaded, "I will have to jump in after you. It's awfully cold and while we are waiting for the ambulance we will both get pneumonia and die. NOW, PLEASE, BE A GOOD WIFE AND COME
COME AND HANG YOURSELF."
On
the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept.
of Posts. Govt. of India launched a Special Day Cover at a
special function in the capital. 'Prem
Ki Madhushala' - a concert by Shubha Mudgal was also
held.
Meera's
sonnets are still being discovered - even 400 years later!
Although Meera passed into history over 400 years ago, new
sonnets by Meera are still being researched and documented
from oral literature, said Prof. Ashok Chakradhar, Head of the
Hindi Department at Jamia Millia University, New Delhi.
Launching Meera Week at Osho World Galleria in New Delhi on 10
June 2002 Prof. Chakradhar related how the first 21 sonnets by
Meera were published over 350 years after she died in a
booklet in 1898. The second book containing 201 Meera sonnets
was published 35 years later in 1933 by Dr. P. Chaturvedi
while the most recent publication of Meera's sonnets came in
1956 by Meera Prakashan Sansthan containing no less than 1,323
of her bhajans. Work is still going on to collect and
transcribe more of Meera's work as her bhajans are sung all
over the Hindi Belt, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and even Bengal,
added Prof. Chakradhar.
Although Meera is taught in schools and universities, it is
impossible to teach anything about her unless one is taught
about love. Maybe there should be a Master's degree in Love
and all its aspects before one ventures to teach Meera. No one
except Osho has touched upon and talked about the deepest
dimensions of Meera's devotion and emotions, maintained Prof.
Chakradhar referring to Osho's series of Meera discourses
entitled - Pad Ghungroo Bandh.
The Hindi professor explained the enigmatic title of Osho's
discourses with a conscious
amendment to one of the most famous sonnets of Meera - Pag
Ghungroo Bandh.
Instead of putting the dancing bells on Meera's feet, Osho has
put them on her sonnets by changing the title of his
discourses from 'Pag' to 'Pad', he said launching the MP3 CD
of these discourses. Meera bhajans by Ms Roopjeet Kaur
enthralled Osholovers with Meera bhajans during the
inauguration of Meera Week and Osho's discourses on Meera,
Meera bhajans and meditation were held every evening during
the week.
Says Osho, "I would also like you to be like Meera -- so
juicy that even today her songs are unparalleled. She is like
a garden in the spring. Meera says: "main to prem divani
-- I am madly in love, so madly loved that I am mad, mad,
mad!" Perhaps this may give you a little hint what kind
of songs she sang."
On
the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept.
of Posts. Govt. of India launched a Special Day Cover at a
special function in the capital. '
Although Meera passed into history over 400 years ago, new
sonnets by Meera are still being researched and documented
from oral literature, said Prof. Ashok Chakradhar, Head of the
Hindi Department at Jamia Millia University, New Delhi.
amendment to one of the most famous sonnets of Meera - Pag
Ghungroo Bandh.
