Sacred songs

Recently a song was cooking within me.
This is a poem by Saadi, the great Persian mystic, poet and thinker of the 13th century, on the indivisibility of humanity. Raya, a neice of mine, who is Iranian, had put up the calligraphed Farsi lines on Facebook, together with a nice translation in...

अनेकजातिसंसारं, सन्धाविस्सं अनिब्बिसं।
गहकारकं गवेसन्तो, दुक्खा जाति पुनप्पुनं॥
गहकारक दिट्ठोसि, पुन गेहं न काहसि।

Today 21 June (2007), the day of the summer solstice, is World Music Day as well as World Peace & Prayer Day.
To commemorate this day, I have created this Sacred Songs site. I like to think that sacred chants and songs are the soil of which all melody and singing are formed....