Sing Always the Song of the Divine

Shankara wrote the first verse of this sweet song when he was passing through a village and saw an old man memorising the rules of grammar. He felt pity for this old man who was on his deathbed: he had wasted his whole life and now he was wasting his last moment too. All his life he had never remembered the divine and even now he was busy with grammar. What would he gain by memorising the rules of grammar?

Bhajan, devotional singing, kirtan, divine songs and dance are all means of expressing...