I just found it a little weird that even in a ''highly'' religious function, people actually hire singer, or apprentices in a more polite word, to sing bhajans. Or any other religious song for that matter.
I mean since it is a devotion coming straight from the heart, shouldn’t the song essentially come from there only. And the ''sur'' shouldn’t matter a lot when people are so mesmerized by the beauty of the feelings. Like it is a tranquil environment that has taken over their heart and soul and there is no stopping the singing and ultimately the dancing in joy?
But rather there is this ''fakeness' in the whole process of dedicating the whole day to the Lord. It’s a paid singer singing that is, doing what she pretty much had to. I mean there is no spontaneity, you have to maintain your class and society (read dressing up well and wearing ridiculously expensive jewelry)
If the intention is to awaken the spirituality in oneself by releasing the liberations of the body, mind and soul and selflessly offering food to the great Lord, then why is there so much of boastfulness, unnecessary elaborateness and showing off?
I mean can’t it be simple, which according to me would connect more than anything
Another thing that i find VERY weird is that the hired singer/apprentice/dummy actually accepts the money which is being given to him/her for faking 2 hours or more of a high devotion and mesmerized feeling (whether the singer actually does that or not is another thing entirely.) but then again one COULD argue that, oh well, it is his/her living after all. She needs to sustain herself, right? There are endless counter-arguments too. For instance, the sustaining could be done in a more “ethical” manner. But who are we to define a person’s ethics.
Just a thought, that in this “still growing from old ideas and modernizing” era, have we really modernized? Or have we lost the entire essence of a process, and turned to dis-tasteful events, or “instant-ness?” Deep thinking is required my friends, and then some more.
