Beauty Path

The world is breathtakingly colorful when we see it through different cultures, languages and believes. Even if the entire world is transformed into some sort of hippie or rainbow culture, at a certain point we will start feeling ho-hum and try to turn back the time wheel and reinvent our made-extinct cultures. No one likes to watch a BW TV once they have watched the color ones.

We lost so many cultures, its followers and their believes in the name of progress and our quest to dominate our own human race. Many of the remaining cultures and their hopes of survival are hanging by the edge of a worn thread. Even if we have the sense of rebuilding them, we prefer sorry-no-time excuse since we are all well set to chase hard every single step of technology and bourses’ ups and lows. And so it goes!

Following words are taken from the album “Ahimsa” by K.J. Yesudas and others. The song “Beauty All Around” in the album is based on the American Indian poetry edited by late George Cronyn.

Adapted from traditional poetry of the Dineh people (Navajo), this composition is dedicated to all the native communities that have vanished in the name of progress, and to all those descendants that are now rebuilding their cultures on the timeless foundations of their ancestors. The Native American’s “Beauty Path” is peace, stewardship, and a reverent awe for life.

Beauty behind me
As I turn,
Beauty before me
Now I learn.
The timeless dance,
The song of wonder,
Oh...
Beauty All Around.
Ageless creation
Below,
Endless horizons
Above,
A shining star,
With it I wander,
Beauty
Above me,
Beauty
Below me,
Oh...
Beauty All Around