Ravi Shankar and George Harrison

Ravi Shankar and George Harrison

 

I used to have an uncle (long since dead) who, I was told,  came home from work one day  and announced to his family that they were all going to be vegetarian. He played the sitar; I remember this instrument fascinated me as a child.

While we were still children he decided to move himself and his entire family, my auntie and four cousins, all the way to Wales. I never saw any of them again after they moved, they apparently moved to a cottage/ farm house type home in the middle of a field and half way up a hill. He became the village postman and … from what I am told, they all lived happily ever after.

When George Harrison developed his interest in the sitar it always made me think of my sitar playing uncle, my auntie, and my four cousins all lost to the hills of Wales

  

translation ( taken from the comments on youtube where it’s posted)

om saha nāvavatu saha nau bhunaktu saha vīryaṃ karavāvahai tejasvināvadhītamastu mā vidviṣāvahai oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ 

Om ! May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together;

May we work conjointly with great energy, May our study be vigorous and effective; May we not mutually dispute (or may we not hate any).

Om ! Let there be Peace in me !

Let there be Peace in my environment!

Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me