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July 8 - July 11, 2019
It is the simplicity that brings excellence. A woman does not need any ornament. No music needs any ornament. True, soulful music needs no ornamentation. Begum Akhtar
“My dear girl, it is not only Yashodha and Radha calling Krishna to come quickly; it is also the death, that is dark like Krishna, which is being invited by disenchanted maidens in love.”
Unlike other musicians, Ammi did not believe in restricting the diet to safeguard the voice. She would take cold water, ice-chilled water, ice-cream, pickles and spicy food, conforming to the view that as long as you do your morning riyaz, nothing affects your voice: “It is not the voice which makes you sing but the body.”
Pritam was charitable enough to share some fi ndings of her own research, and read out the correct order: Talab (Quest), Ishq (Love), Tauheed (Cognition and affirmation of the oneness of the Creator), Beniyazi (Seeing the Lord in everything), Haal (Ecstatic state of trance), and Fanna (Annihilation and merging with the Divine). The entire sagacious premise of Sufism rests on the belief that when the Individual Self is lost, the Universal Self is found.
