yaad piya ki aye
Yesterday evening i heard an excerpt of this track on Insta, which lead me to…
I can’t just stop listening to this song! it’s on loop for more than idk 3 hrs now even as i write, I walked in and out of the house, atop the terrasse i went, looking at the stars while listening, just don’t know why..
i didn’t cry, neither am i missing my piya. the tonality! the music!?
The first time i heard ,i was just uncontrollable, the joy, exuberance of sort was just outpouring and it’s a song where someone is going through unbearable aching in the heart as they think of their dearest one and missing their presence and yet is it the beauty of the music, that it turns such a pain into something that could heal upadrav of millions of hearts, touching the deepest corners of our cortex. It’s like how the strongest of venoms end up being an antidote or treating many mortal diseases. What lead that person to write such a song? how is it that I'm feeling this sense of great joy that i can’t explain while it being so miserable of an experience which is being described!
(I’m pausing the writing here for today)
(continuing from where i had stopped yesterday)
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My mind is filled with lots of questions and lot too many thoughts that are still taking shape, as i go through this feeling of indescribability. I’m not the first one to feel such a thing after listening to a song, i know, but if i could even begin to describe, it feels like the “volcano erupting deep down in the sea”. It’s not the burst of that anger but embracing the feeling of longing..
maybe it could be understood as one of the beautiful response to such strong feelings that manifest within us, resistance like that of the earth’s mantel which would eventually gonna give to the constant pressure thereby destroying what it once was, or if shown the least resistance like air does, which allows that outburst to go uncouth and addling the atmosphere but if the response is like that of the sea, with the flued embrace! filling each lacune of the volcano itself with it’s own debris even while it is lashing out wave after wave.
Her prem is such a chetana that the pain of separation from her piya has brought the pain itself to life. The skin of Virah is filled with quills like a porcupine, none want to touch it, everyone wants to run away from it. but she’s embracing it empathetically, making the pain itself to fall at her feet with the purest of devotion it can offer.
Yaad piya ki aaye..
It just created a tsunami within and I’m forever grateful.
Bade ghulam ali khan! I never knew this name before and “Shreya shankar’s” voice had me searching everything about this song..
That tabla, the flute, the guitar, ohhhh!! heavenly Thank you Indian Idol.
