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Sadhguru (born Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev, 3 September 1957) is an Indian guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India.The foundation, established in 1992, operates an ashram and yoga centre that carries out educational and spiritual activities.
Music in ancient India, can be reproduced from written works dating to the Indian classical period, such as the Nātya Shastra, and through surviving examples of liturgical music such as the hymns of the Samaveda. Musical instruments dating to the prehistoric period have been recovered from archaeological excavations.
[14] [33] The eastern Ganges plain was dominated by another Indo-Aryan complex, which rejected the later Brahmanical ideology and gave rise to Jainism and Buddhism, and the Maurya Empire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Indo-European roots and syncreticism
Traditionally, the music has been Indian classical music, which is based on ragas and tala (rhythmic beat patterns) played on the Veena (or Been), Sarangi Venu (flute), Mridanga(or Tabla) (traditional Indian instruments). The Sikh Scripture contains 31 ragas and 17 talas which form the basis for kirtan music compositions.
Other texts, such as the Arthashastra and Indica of Megasthenes, which provide general information about the Maurya period, can also be used to make inferences about Ashoka's reign. [26] However, the Arthashastra is a normative text that focuses on an ideal rather than a historical state, and its dating to the Mauryan period is a subject of debate.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
Indian classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. [1] It is generally described using terms like Shastriya Sangeet and Marg Sangeet. [2] [3] It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani and the South Indian expression known as Carnatic. [4]
Isha may refer to: Isha (Fantasy), a fictional deity from Warhammer Fantasy; Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev; Isha prayer, the Islamic night-time daily prayer; Isha Upanishad, the Hindu religious text; International Students of History Association (ISHA) Storm Isha, part of the 2023–24 European ...