Sa Pa Ma Ga Ma Dha Re Sa
Sa Pa Ma Ga Ma Dha Re Sa 

Alakh chalanu, kone gher bhanu?
Alakh chalanu, kone gher bhanu?

Invisible movement, where’s the party?

(Context: Kids shout the slogan while playing four corners. They exchange corners so fast that they are invisible to the challenger who has to catch a vacant corner… the chain of cause-effect movement is invisible… it’s improbable that one can guess where the party is going to kick in.)

Rut hai to run hai
Poore mein purna hai
Tera tu hi hai khudah 

There’s debt because there’s order
Complete lies within complete
You are your own God. 

(Context: Ideas from the ancient Indian texts – Vedas. The Vedas believe that there’s a central law, an order in nature – a cycle in the apparent chaos – and you are essentially indebted to this order. You play your part in the great cycle till you become one with the order itself. From complete is complete born and subtracting complete from complete still leaves a complete remainder. You are the creator and you are the created and it all depends on from where you see it.)

Khole jo aankh
Aaye prabhat
Rahe tu phir kyun judaa

It will dawn
When eyes will open
Why do you choose otherwise? 

Khel yun hi bas chalta rahe
Mast mohallam chalta rahe 

The game plays on (the show goes on)
And how! 

Rut hai to run hai
Tera tu hi hai khudah
Kya kyun kaise hua
Kab kaun aur kahaan
Sab sawalon ka ek hi matlab hai
Who hai tujh se jooda 

What, why, and how?
When, who, and where?
All questions lead to one meaning

That (The elusive law / the ultimate answer) is connected with you. 

Sa Pa Ma Ga Ma Dha Re Sa
Sa Pa Ma Ga Ma Dha Re Sa

Purnamada punamidam purnat purnamuchyate
Purnasya purnamadaya purnamevavashishyate

That is complete, This is complete
From complete is complete born,
Add to complete or subtract from it
The remainder is still complete.

Khole jo aankh
Aaye prabhat

Tadko Tadko Tadko Tadko
Tadko dham dham
Tadko mam mam
Tadko tadko tadko
Ame saacha tamey saacha
Tadka na tukdao saacha
Tame saacha amey saacha
Tadka na tukdao saacha

Sunny heat, sunny heat
You are right
We are right,
The pieces of sunny heat are right

(Context: Gujarati poet Labhshankar Thaker’s take on matter and energy dualism within non-dualism)

Khel yun hi bas chalta rahe
Mast mohallam chalta rahe
Purnat purnamuchyate
Jal bich kamal, kamal bich kaliyaan
Ta par bhanwar niwasi
Aiso mann trelok bhayo hai
Yati sati sanyaasi
Yati sati sanyaasi

From a pond stems a lotus,
From the lotus its petals,
Within the petals lives a bee,
Thus consciousness lives in the universe,
The ascetics and the enlightened say.

(Context: Excerpt from the 16^th century Indian Sufi poet Kabeer.)