| Samsara Blues Experiment – Brahmin's Lament Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Correction in the first paragraph, it should say: Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn when their time in the afterlife runs out, which is proportional to one's merit. | |
| Samsara Blues Experiment – Brahmin's Lament Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Sorry that the info below is not a cohesive statement, but hopefully it helps to clarify the base ideas behind this song. Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn after your merit has run out. The brahman's lament, or expression of sorrow, is for the death and soon to be rebirth of the person still stuck in the cycle, who has again failed to truly comprehend the identity of his or her soul. The meaning of Samsara: - Samsara means a circuit of living where one repeats previous states, from one body to another, rebirth, growth, decay and redeath. - Contrasted with the concept of Moksha (nirvana), which refers to liberation from this cycle of aimless wandering - Some religions believe that reincarnation is cyclic and endless Samsara, unless one gains spiritual insights that ends this cycle, leading to liberation. They introduce the idea of the afterlife in heaven or hell in proportion to one's merit, and when this runs out, one returns and is reborn. This idea appears in ancient and medieval texts as the cycle of life, death, rebirth and redeath - such as sections 6:31 of the Mahabharata and section 6.10 of Devi Bhagavata Purana. Excerpt from Devi Bhagavata Purana on Samsara and the Brahman: [book 7] ".... The Goddess explains she is the Brahman that created the world, asserting the Advaita premise that spiritual liberation occurs when one fully comprehends the identity of one's soul and the Brahman. This knowledge, asserts the Goddess, comes from detaching self from the world and meditating on one's own soul" |
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| Six Feet Under – Deathklaat Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| From what I've gathered from various online sources, "klaat" or claat or klatt depending on the region means cloth/rag. The only thing I can think of is that deathklaat might mean a shroud/burial cloth in this context. Similarly, the Soulfly song "Bumbklaatt" is a Portuguese word that generally means "motherfucker", derived from the Jamacian-Creole word bumboklatt/clat/claat meaning about the same thing. The literal translation appears to be either "toilet paper" or to be etymologically derived from bumbaclot or "blood cloth" (as in the cloth used for menstrual blood) and in this context you're are saying that someone came from a blood clot and not an ovum from their mother's womb. Both Portuguese and Jamacian-Creole resources say this is about the worst insult you can say, the Jamaican ones claim you can even be arrested for saying it. As far as Deathklatt goes, I didn't have much luck finding the exact definition, only that "klatt" litterally translates to cloth/paper/rag and is used in combination with a number of other word but the lists did not include death as one. | |
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