Good morning everyone. Today's title is You Never Know Why a Song Becomes Your Favorite and the subtitle is You Will Eventually Know For Sure If You Dig Deeper and this is in response to a daily prompt Day 7 What Is Your Favorite Song? Tell us why? Share some of the lyrics that mean something to you.
Wow, okay. Today's prompt transported me from my childhood to adult to elder ears. Want to know how? For loving the song, tune, background music and scene from the Hindi movie Goody, G-U-D-G-I, Goody and had no idea of what the lyrics meant as an innocent child.
Absolutely. You know what? This is another thing that I want to reveal and that is when I listen to a song, I get carried away by the tune. How the tune makes me feel.
Does it make me feel empowered, joyous, happy, fulfilled, thankful or does it make me feel sad? You know, I don't even look for lyrics. That's how I enjoy a song, okay. Alright.
For learning the song in her 30s using a tape recorder by playing one verse listening, hitting the pause button, learning that verse and repeating the process. That's what I did in when I was 30 years old using those tape recorders. For participating in an English writing challenge but wanting to share with her audience her favorite Hindi song as a lady graciously embracing her elder ears. So I have shared the video of that song from the movie Goody and the title is It's a Hindi.
The title is Hamko Manki Shakti Deena. Please give it a try, even if you don't speak Hindi, music has no language. It's long since I sang this song actually. I and in fact this writing, this article was published way back in September 2022 and I'm recording this episode in what?
On April 30th, 2023. Okay. So the song goes something like this. I do not remember the lyrics much now but then it's something like this.
Let me try to, let me try to, what to say. Humb the song. And pardon me if the lyrics are wrong, if the tune is wrong. Hey, I'm singing from the bottom of my heart while recording this episode.
That's it guys. Now I have to go ahead recording the episode. So the title is Hamko Manki Shakti Deena language is Hindi and I'm trying to translate it for you in English. Give us strength to overcome our mind.
That's the English translation. Now here is the English translation of the lyrics, of the Hindi lyrics of this song. Oh God, give us strength to overcome our mind ourselves before attempting to conquer others, conquer oneself. Let us cleanse our mind of discrimination of persons.
Let us try to forgive the mistakes of friends. Let us discard falsehood and follow the path to truth. Whatever the difficulties in the path, we will continue to work. We will treat the path of righteousness with the blessings of dharma.
We will persist the self-confidence to fight evil. Translation produced translation piece was produced from the website rasikas.org. I've given credit from where I've got this translation. You can go and check it out please.
Okay, it all makes sense to me how my core value was ingrained in the song, how it came to me by chance and how I was attracted to it organically without even knowing the lyrics at that time. Okay, because I loved it. I don't know why I loved it. I loved it.
I loved it. This thing. Okay, how it came to me by chance and how I was attracted to it organically and is even more meaningful today when I read the meaning in English. And also now I understand that in the meaning, as I said, I would get carried away by the tune.
I would get carried away by how I feel inside when I listen to the tune. I wouldn't look for the meaning of the lyrics. I knew Hindi, but I wouldn't I wouldn't look for the meaning at all. It doesn't it's not something it's something like I was like, I'll just see through it.
That's it. I'll see through it. I will not have any desire any inclination to sit with the lyrics and understand. No, okay.
Yeah, I completed today's prompt. Thank you. Nancy Blackman. Now for the blurb, please subscribe and support.
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