An incredible balancing act - poetry, dance and music.

[Rsachi]

Beauty, harmony, balance ... on so many levels. A truly amazing balancing act. Dance artist Miyoko Shida was born in Fukuyama-shi, Japan. She performed as a dancer and choreographer at the Rigolo Nouveau Cirque in Switzerland and currently lives in Paris, France.
Click on the picture to watch her balance several palm leaf stems with incredible ease and confidence. What does it take to do THAT!
(raga Kafi has travelled all the way to Spain!)

[vasanthakokilam]

Wow, incredible.

The final act reminded me of the thirukkuraL 'pIli pei sAkADum achchirum appanDam sAla mikuththupeyin' ( too great a load of even peacock feathers can break the cart's axle eqv to the last straw that broke the camel"s back) but with the opposite meaning 'You remove the feather, the whole thing collapses'. 'pIli pei sAkADum achchirum appanDam angillai enil'!!

I better get going on my practice to balance on one leg on top of a semi-spherical ball in the gym. Trivial compared to this but it ain't easy.

You think the background music is kAfi huh?

[Rsachi]

VKM, Well put! So many expressions...from the gross 'last straw on the camel's back' to the 'butterfly effect' all are attempts to describe the mind-boggling balancing act that this whole universe around us is. As Bill Bryson says, even the exact timing of the Big Bang had to be so microchronometrically precise....

This video is simply a startling reminder to us that we don't need any more prompters than everyday episodes to show us how everything in creation is so delicately poised.

To me the ultimate book is the Bhagavad Gita. It says it all SO beautifully. In the tenth chapter Krishna explains how everything derives its 'vibhuti' or specialness by His presence. Finally he says,




KAfi sOchke rAg ka nAm batAya lEkin....I suspect some notes like Dha and Ni are deviating sometimes from kAfi.