February 27, 2006

Whats in a name ??

Why do we need names for everything ? Why to categorize and describe ? Why to assign a meaning and put it in a dictionary ?

In Black, the deaf-dumb girl is taught to associate feelings of the senses with names for it. This is knowledge for her.

But why ? Is it really that important or necessary ? What are the 7 Surs of Music; they are simply a series of frequenices with

a fixed interval. Why to give it a name Sa Re Ga Ma..... why to say this frequency will be Sa and then others have to be in the order...

Why cant Ga replace Ma......Who is to decide that.... Rather why do we need to decide order in each and everything ? In Tabla, why to

think of sounds as Dha Dhin Dhin Dha, etc and then make up ragas and taals ? Why cant we just play to our heartbeat.....Why to have an

order in such things, why do we need to follow the rules made up for these.....Why not be free and play these to the mood and the energy

we feel and the sync we are in with at the time ?????

A whole new industry is up...not with the knowledge that the world or the nature has to give us, but, with the maze of words that

we have created for ourselves. Take languages for example, I mean the grammar aspect of it......So much is said, rules set down, rigidly

followed (myself included). True it is required to set down some order, or chaos would follow. But when things go out of hand, when ppl

make this language ( made up in their own limited sense of hearing, speaking ) , a question of pride, of life or death....Prime examples are

Hitler.

We definitely cant do without naming things, but sometimes it gets irritating and boring and utterly pissed off feeling, to shut off

what your senses tell you in abstract and give a name to everything it means.......Some things cant and shouldnt be expressed in words.

These are better felt by the language of the heart and the soul.

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