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2006-08-29 India-Pakistan

Indian Hindu, Muslim groups tussle over song

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Posted by ryuge 2006-08-29 07:31|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Entire Text of Vande Mataram

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!

Probably not be heard at Ireland's Four Courts in Arlington of a Friday night but......

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-29 08:10|| 2006-08-29 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 God I hate it when I agree with muzzies.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-29 08:52|| 2006-08-29 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 VANDE MATARAM

The problem may be the diety refrenced min the song, Bharatma - is female and unveiled, and is depicted with a lion... Power symbol indeed!

Posted by BigEd 2006-08-29 12:19|| 2006-08-29 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 If the damn Muzzies can't support the national song, let them pack their asses (and donkeys too), and head to Pakland.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-29 13:50|| 2006-08-29 13:50|| Front Page Top

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