Vande Mataram is played (informally) alongside with Janagana Mana at both national holidays (Jan. 26 & Aug. 15)
Gandhi wanted Vande Mataram to be our National Anthem and set to music. It has - and the rendition (by AR Rahman) I downloaded from Kaza is quite stirring (compared to the slow tempo Natioanl Anthem) even though I do not follow the lyrics.
(From: http://www.freeindia.org/vmataram/)
Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Dark fields waving Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.
Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Though who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove Back from plain and Sea And shook herself free.
Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath Though art love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nervs the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divine In our temples is but thine.
Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen, With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen, Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned, And the Muse a hundred-toned, Pure and perfect without peer, Mother lend thine ear, Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with thy orchard gleems, Dark of hue O candid-fair
In thy soul, with jewelled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Lovilest of all earthly lands, Showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, mother mine! Mother sweet, I bow to thee, Mother great and free!
Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA
From: Filomena Giese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet]WHAT A SHAME Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:13:35 -0800 (PST)
Dear Wilmarco, You have certainly researched the Indian National Anthem. More Indians should know why it was composed in the first place. Can you kindly give us the words of Vande Mataram. Where can we find the music on CD or tape? - has anyone set the music for a band? Filomena
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