When i was writing my last post, i had a compulsion to write about this word Musth..but refrained because it was not really relevant to the main story (.may be remotely...if at all.)..and feared it would have taken the emphasis out of the main character.....But now, i must...
It tickles me...The word Musth...It must have been an urdu word...Literally means INTOXICATING..as an adjective ..and as a noun in particular cases like the person in my last post....Usually , you can call a heavily inebriated man as being in a state of musth...It is that pinnacle of mindset,semi consciousness, where a man..or a woman, as the case may be....lose their faculties , inhibitions, senses and ultimately themselves in the clouded mists of vapours of the intoxicant..Whew...How i tied myself into knots in trying to put it into words.......
Kenneth Anderson describes Musth as a periodic ailment that affects male elephants from time to time..akin to sexual excitement....During this stage ,a fluid oozes from their eyes and they become a menace to everything on legs...They become insane and resort to violence...often tramping on anything on hand to pulp...He warns that jungles are usually safer than many cities and metros...only watch out for three things...an elephant in musth, a cubbing tigress, and ofcource mating big cats....Don"t ever go near them and lord help if you ever do...
Common though is the MUSTH of drinks and opiums,and their after effects, now , i want to talk about the range of the word musth in sufi or bhakthi philosophy...for..the highest state of philosophical enlightenment and devotion is nothing short or even lenghthier than the other musths..And no languaze sang it better than urdu.... In fact, once you understand that devotion is nothing more than love towards God...even the sleaziest of lyrics sound like sookthi mukthavali...Just read this one..The famous hide and seek song from Jawaani Diwani....
jaan-e jaan
doondhtaa phir rahan
ghoomoom mein raat din
mein yahaan se wahaan
mujh ko aawaaz do chup gaye o sanam tum kahaan?
mein yahaan
The distraught lover, pained by the non -appearance of his Mashooq is roaming across the land...seeking his beloved hither and thither in frenzied quest..---just as the seekers and mystics run after the ultimate truth...pleading with him to answer...
o mere humsafar
pyar ke raah par
saath chale hum magar
kyaan khabar?
they are lamenting how tortoured are these ramblings...
Rasthe mein kahin
khogaye humnasheen
we were united at first, but lost contact midway...
The mashooq-in this case, -god, replies playfully
Haath mein ho bus aisi hi
chod kar chal diye
Why did you leave my hand when i was accompanying you so faithfully?
pas ho tum khade
mere dil mein chupe
aur mujhe kuch pathaa naa chale
ultimately the lover is found out..in his own heart..not hidden anywhere else...He is wondering how he did not ever look inside.....To which, the lover replies rather meaningfully
dil me dekha nahin
dekha sara jahaan
or this song from phool aur kaante
door tumse rahoon tho hon bechainiyan
pas aaoo tho badhthee hai betaabiyaan
ho na jaaye kabhi tu mujh se judaa
ho na jaaye kabhi tu mujh se judaa
ye dil tere liye hi machaltha hai
tum se milne ko dil kartha hai
tum hon woh jis pe dil martaa hai
Once , he tasted this musthi,he is not willing to let go of it..and craves the union forever...
jab se tum se shuroon yeh kahaani huyi
log kehthe hai ke main tho deewanee huyi
jaane kyaa baat aisi hai tujh mein sanam
jaane kyaan bat aisi hai tujh mein sanam
He is lamenting that people are now calling him insane...Oh..What was it in you that makes me this mad?
See..how the rather commonplace lyrics of a b-rated movie are going straight to heart?..
In Hinduism, this kind of love is called mathura bhakthi and is generally confined mostly to vaishnava saampradayam....krishna and his gopikas and the legend of Goda,...meera..It reached it"s best expression in the gopika geethas and bhramara geethas of Pothana in andhra bhagavatham
nee charana yugmambu channula meeda mopi
badha harimpu varimpu Madhava
kitiyeie kougita cherchenu
vatudye vardhilli koliche
vadi krishnundye itu padachinhambulide
krindati bamunanemi nochithamma dharithri
The gopis have lost their siggu, lajja, abandoned husbands,and lactating babies in an unabashed pursuit of the lord in thousand ways..as they went through the all stages of love..the seduction, pursuit, viraham, doubts and jealousies,
Alternately the lord is loved upon as a master,friend,parent,and child too,with an intense abandon as the devotees got ready to renounce families,friends,and the self in a no holds barred display of bravado..for this exacting lover who demands complete surrender..
So.?what is the secret of this musth ?
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