Naw Ruz celebration podcast
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- Created: Monday, 20 March 2006 12:01
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I've done a special podcast to celebrate Naw Ruz. It's a 10-minute devotional podcast, with readings and sounds. It's different, and needs to be listened to when you have some quiet time to sit, relax and take it in. Please feel free to use this audio for your devotional programmes.
I have obtained the audios of the sounds from an amazing site called the Freesound Project: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php. It allows you to download sounds for free so long as you attribute them. The sounds are from all over the world and remind me of Baha'u'llah's words that his revelation is announced by all the atoms of the earth.
Download the 10-minute MP3 audio of the Naw Ruz podcast
Naw Ruz podcast programme
Bell rings - this is an audio of a church bell in La Vinzelle, Aveyron, France. I downloaded the audio from the website http://www.hibberts.co.uk/collect/vinz.htm. The bell rings symbolise the announcement that the Day of God has begun. Also, I think the refrain from the Tablet of the Bell is intended to mimic the sound of a ringing bell.
Reading from Tablet of the Bell (interspersed with sounds):
"O monk of divine unity, toll the bell, for the Day of God hath been made manifest and the Beauty of the All-Glorious hath been established upon the Throne of manifest holiness.
[bell rings]
Praised be Thou, O He; O He that is He; O He that there is none other than He.
[trumpet: audio by "prico", http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=9383]
O Hud of the decree, blow upon the trumpet in the name of God, the Mighty, the Generous, for the tabernacle of holiness hath been established upon the throne of inaccessible glory.
Praised be Thou, O He; O He that is He; O He that there is none other than He.
[guitar: audio by "plagasul", http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=1275]
O Countenance of Eternity! Strike with the fingers of the spirit upon the rebec of a wondrous holiness, for the Beauty of the Essence hath appeared clothed in a robe of shining silk.
Praised be Thou, O He; O He that is He; O He that there is none other than He.
[icecream-bell horn: audio by "beatbed", http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=15787]
O angel of light, blow into the horn in this revelation, for the letter ha' hath come riding upon a letter of ancient majesty.
Praised be Thou, O He; O He that is He; O He that there is none other than He.
[Birds by a river: audio by "acclivity", http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=13553]
O Songbird of Paradise, trill thou upon the branches in this wondrous age, for God hath shone forth upon all that dwell in the kingdom of earth.
Praised be Thou, O He; O He that is He; O He that there is none other than He.
[Tibetan throat singing: audio by "djgriffin", http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=15363]
O Inhabitants of Paradise, sing and chant in the most melodious and charming of voices, for the song of God hath been raised behind pavilions of exalted holiness.
Praised be Thou, O He; O He that is He; O He that there is none other than He. "
"Do not bring our fasts to an end with this fast, O my Lord, nor the covenants Thou hast made with this covenant. Do Thou accept all that we have done for love of Thee, and for the sake of Thy pleasure, and all that we have left undone as a result of our subjection to our evil and corrupt desires. Enable us, then, to cleave steadfastly to Thy love and Thy good-pleasure, and preserve us from the mischief of such as have denied Thee and repudiated Thy most resplendent signs. Thou art, in truth, the Lord of this world and of the next. No God is there beside Thee, the Exalted, the Most High." Baha'u'llah: Prayers and Meditations, LVI
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=15661
"Praised be Thou, O my God, that Thou hast ordained Naw-Ruz as a festival unto those who have observed the fast for love of Thee and abstained from all that is abhorrent unto Thee. Grant, O my Lord, that the fire of Thy love and the heat produced by the fast enjoined by Thee may inflame them in Thy Cause, and make them to be occupied with Thy praise and with remembrance of Thee." Baha'u'llah: Naw Ruz prayer, Prayers and Meditations, XLVI
Bell rings
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