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Mirando Al Sur Radio, CD Review >>
Meera Bai was a poetess from western India back in the Sixteenth Century. When her young husband, Lord Krishna died, she refused to obey the predominant widow suicide tradition of being burnt at his funeral because in her view Lord Krishna was still alive.
The story says that for this she was excluded from the patriarchal society of the time, but Meera Bai was followed by many in her loving devotion to Krishna.
Imagine in a parallel story, present time, vocalist and architect Vandana Vishwas, an Indian native residing in Canada that tells the story of this controversial Indian poetess, symbolically by composing one song for each phase from Meera Bai’s collection architected in harmony with instruments from Indian classical music.
For someone coming from another culture (like me), I found the Lord Krishna and Meera Bai stories to be a thunderstorm of knowledge to process. I made twice the intent to read and understand the Bhagavad Gita and I remember it to be a very important Hindu Scripture, but in this musical presentation Vishwas makes everything more decently and amazingly attractive -if you like music-.
Check out this story and listen to Vandana Vishwas’ album -Meera -The Lover- and while she takes me back with her music to the Buenos Aires’ Hare Krishna Temple in my teenage years, from where the vegetarian menu comes back to haunt me, I imagine Meera Bai expressing her romantic feelings; taboo in sixteenth century India but inspiration for a present role model, vocalist Vandana Vishmas. 12/07/09 >> go there
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