Song, as you teach it, is not desire, not
a wooing of something that's finally attained;
song is existence....
learn to forget how you sang....
Real singing is a different kind of breath.
A nothing breath. A ripple in the god. A wind.
- RAINER MARIA RILKE
Forge Yoga Centre, Totnes, Devon
Music of Universal Peace. Kerala, India.
Translations with kind permission:
Tyagaraja lyrics by William J Jackson
Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, by David Young