Word: sanskrit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reader felt thrust into a time machine of disorienting simultaneity. And the poem had an unsettling habit of saying, out of the blue, "Oed' und leer das Meer," or something even more peculiar. It ended, in fact, with a cascade of lines in different languages--English, Italian, Latin, French, Sanskrit. Still, readers felt the desperate spiritual quest behind the poem--and were seduced by the unerring musicality of its free-verse lines...
...company that owns TIME). It makes sense, then, that Ray of Light draws on electronica for sonic inspiration. Madonna '98 is also a new mother (her daughter Lourdes is 17 months old); she has also been studying the Cabala (a form of Jewish mysticism), practicing yoga and learning Sanskrit...
Madonna, in the lyrics on this album, finds solace in family and philosophy. "You breathe/New life/Into my broken heart," she sings on Little Star, a swirling lullaby-like song about her daughter. On another track, the chanting Shanti/Ashtangi, Madonna sings in Sanskrit--something that, not too many years ago, would have been about as unthinkable as Hanson today singing in Serbo-Croatian. In translation, a line of Shanti/Ashtangi reads "I worship the gurus' lotus feet/ Awakening the happiness of the self revealed." Madonna in only six years has gone from sucking on feet to using them as catalysts for spiritual...
...roots of the word "love" can be traced back to the Indo-European root leubh, meaning "to care" or "to desire," approximated from words including the Latin lubet, "it pleases" and the Sanskrit lubhyati, "he desires." Along with "love," related English words like "libido" and "belief" also descend from *lebuh...
...were to let the study of Classics wither away, or the study of Sanskrit fade into oblivion, what would be next? Archaeology? The Renaissance? Buddhism? Or perhaps the Industrial Revolution, which in today's high-tech information age might strike some people as something close to ancient history?" Rudenstine asked...