Tosca Puccini
Through the expressive power of music, opera conveys the deepest and most complex human emotions. It allows us to enter the psyche of characters and experience the drama on a gut level. Opera, with its far flung story lines and sung libretto, can’t be approached literally, as if you’re watching a movie or a play. It has to be experienced as metaphor…a story unfolding through music.
I lived for art
I lived for art, I lived for love,
I never harmed a living soul!
With a discreet hand
I relieved all misfortunes I encountered.
Always with sincere faith
my prayer
rose to the holy tabernacles.
Always with sincere faith
I decorated the altars with flowers.
In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
why do you reward me this way
I donated jewels to the Madonna’s mantle,
and offered songs to the stars and heaven,
which thus shone with more beauty.
In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
ah, why do you reward me this way .
In the Vedas , Srimad Bhagavatam, and Bhagavad Gita, unalloyed devotion is described . Giving oneself fully to Divinity without any expectations, and if any difficulties are experienced , they are tolerated and one calculates, in the words of Srila Sridhar Swami, Prabhupada’s Godbrother, “I take the whole thing on my head , it is my doing and deserve ”
Devotional service is not a business transaction.
That is the consciousness of the pure practitioners , we must strive for that , be patient and regularly apply ourselves , causeless mercy is just that causeless , same time Krishna says one who wants to know Me and sincerely takes shelter in the proccesses I outline , I will give the intelligence and inspiration to come to Me . Its a decending process , not an academic ascending one .
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