Rudra - Hymns from the Blazing Chariot - Official (HD)

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Directed by Jacen Tan © Hosaywood 2009. Filmed & Produced in Singapore
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'Hymns' is a heavy metal re-imagination of the ancient Sanskrit text, The Bhagavad Gita.
Before the start of the Kurukshetra War, Prince Arjuna is reluctant to go into battle as he has to fight his relatives, beloved friends and revered teachers.

In desperation, Arjuna turns to his charioteer and mentor, Krishna for advice. Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and reveals the nature of the Self.

LYRICS:
Dilemma amidst Kurukshetra yet Arjuna spoke like a wise man
The battle of shreyas and preyas enshrouds the Dharma yuddha

ashocyan anvashocas tvam (You grieve for those who are not worthy of grief)

In both Krishna and Arjuna It shines eternally
One knows and the other knows not
A reality that shines even in one's ignorance
And shines the same in one's wisdom

nasato vidyate bhavo nabhavo vidyate satah
ubhayorapi drshtontah tvanayostattvadarshibhih
avinashi tu tadviddhi yena sarvamidam tatam
vinashamavyayasyasya na kashchitkartumarhati

(The Self is eternal, and the visible physical body, is transitory. The reality of these two is indeed certainly seen by the seers of truth.

The Self by whom this entire universe is pervaded is indestructible. No one can destroy the Immortal Self.)

Amidst chaos tranquility is bestowed
In action you see inaction
To see beyond the horizon you've got to unlearn your learning
Amidst the Battlefield of Kurukshetra Brahmavidya was unveiled to Arjuna
That the Self is certainly Brahman
That which no weapons can kill!

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[ma8740]

Metal is the ONLY music that stands true to themes like mythology. Awesome.

[abhishekdash]

This is how schools should teach the Mahabharata to the kids, Pure Class!!!!!!! \m/

[nickbehot]

ah love it



[marcelo72br]

Congratulations from Brazil!!! Rudra rules! I really enjoyed your music! Hope to see you here someday...

[FraterAnonymous218]

Very good, my brothers.

Success.

Frater B. from BRAZIL.

[nnnppp19]

Musulman metal \m/

[TheSingmonk]

nyc video shity song

[freakingLORD]

this is not mythology. it really did happened. it will happen again.

[Blutroth]

@ma8740

Did you know mythologys changed over time/centurys ?

[hetgroenegif]

@stijnvanderveken It's like India's 'Homeros' (Ilias and Oddyseeia): it relates of ancient wars, gods intervening, et cetera. The stories are used as vehicles to illustrate Hindu ethics, philosophy and religion. The key difference between Homeros and the Mahabharata: the Mahabharata is a whole lot bigger, because the civilization that holds these texts sacred has been alive continuously since the Classical Age.

[hetgroenegif]

@albeanmagz19 I agree with Sir Winston below: they're not bashing it, they're re-imagining it. Only in the Christian West did religion need bashing, because as Nietzsche said, Christianity is the ethics of slaves. The warrior ethics that great metal bands rediscovered (like Immortal, Absu) has always stayed alive in the Gita.

[hetgroenegif]

Ever since Manowar's 'triumph of steel', I've been thinking someone should do the same with the Bhagavad Gita. And these guys did it, way beyond expectations.

I could ramble on here about how metal is by definition one of the most fitting musical genres for the Gita, but I think these guys prove it beyond doubt. Compare them to Absu, who, with Tara, did something similar: they revived the Bronze Age ethics of the Celtic Warrior Culture and cast it in modern term.