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Longing and Creativity

Is there a connection between the feeling of longing and creativity? Can a sense of longing affect the level of creativity in a person?

This was the question that was bothering me since the day when unable to sleep, I got up and wrote a bhajan at 3 in the morning! In meager 15 minutes time! To find out the answer, I read up (a little) on what Guruji has to say about ‘longing’ and ‘creativity’ and also consulted my YES!+ teacher. Reading one of Guruji’s quotes sent by this teacher and connecting to something that G had said in one of the Geeta Paths, I came up with a simple, child like understanding of the whole thing.

So here are the two of Guruji’s quotes that I connected-

“Longing- the pain of separation- increases love in you and that increases prayerfulness in you”

                                                           

                                                and

Something that comes out of the heart, is Geeta (probably not exactly in Guruji’s words)

Hence I reached to the conclusion that- longing ness increased prayerfulness and love in me- when I called out to Guruji with this love, the words that came out took the form of a song!

I don’t know if I’ ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ but it doesn’t matter as I’m happy!

(Guruji please correct me if I’m wrong ;))

As for the bhajan I wrote, read and sing along!

Nand ke lala

Masti ka tu pyala

Teri shararto se 

Bana sabka tu pyara

Tarsa na ab aur

Aaja Gopala, Aaja Gopala

Aaja Gopala, Aaja Gopala....

Karna ho karna

Radha ke mann mohna

Mor mukut dhare tu

Lage hai sohna

Tarsa na abb ajaa- ajaa

Radhe krishna , ajaa ajaa radhe krishna

Hey Murli wale

Shyam rang nirale

Aas bhare naino se

Tujhe thaku na nihare

Tote sa mann mera rate

krishna radhe radhe

krishna radhe radhe

krishna radhe radhe

krishna radhe radhe

(The above experience and Bhajan was shared by YES!+ volunteer Manisha Yadav).