Divine Notes From The Divine Dream Poem by Varanasi Ramabrahmam

Goddess Saraswathi [1] is playing on the Veena [2]
Melodious and blissful Divine Notes;

Lord Brahma [3] is creating from the Notes
Provided by Lord Vishnu and Lord Siva;

Musical notes and creative notes
Merged together and poets are created;

I am there along with Vaalmiki, Vyaasa, Bhaasa, Kalidaasa
Bhavabhooti, Maagha, Visaakhadatta, Sudraka [3],
The eminent Sanskrit poets and dramatists seated in one row;
In a row opposite, I saw Homer, Shakespeare, Bretolt Brecht, Gurajaada Appaarao [4],
And many Asian, European and American and other Continental poets and dramatists;

In another row are seated Tyaagaraja, Muthuswami Diskshitar, Syaama Sastri [5],
Beethoven, Morzart and many composers, and musicians like M.S. Subbulakshmi [6]
From the east and the west together with Einstein, S.N. Bose, Yallapragada Subbarao - the eminent scientists,

Ravivarma [7], Picaso and other artists and sculptors too are seated
In another row with Bharatha Muni, Siddhendra Yogi [8] and other dance theoreticians and dancers

I am there to learn the art of writing drama
From Goddess Saraswathi and creative techniques from Lord Brahma;

Saraswathi while playing veena looked gracefully at Bhaasa,
Who in turn looked at Kalidaasa, and the rest of Sanskrit dramatists;
They all benevolently looked at me enchantingly
I became blissful and one with My Self;

And Gurajada Apparao too glanced at me in a friendly way
Together with Shakespeare, Bretolt Brecht and the rest;
My heart started singing the glory of the Divine Congress
Of poets, dramatists, intellectuals, artists, technicians, composers and musicians I have witnessed;

In me has taken place such a transformation
I started writing a drama then and there itself;
It is like a dream; literally it is a Divine dream
And after waking up I felt I am blessed
And started composing a drama based on
The Divine Notes I shared just now
Collected from my Divine dream


[1] Saraswathi is Goddess of fine-arts, language, literature in Indian tradition
[2] Veena-stringed musical instrument of south Indian Carnatic Music
[3] Lord Brahma is the Consort of Saraswathi and is in charge of creation among the Trinity, Lord Vishnu-taking care of sustenance of all creation and Lord Siva-caretaker for rhythm in creation (laya kaaraka) and also cessation of creation.
[3] Vaalmiki, Vyaasa, Bhaasa, Kalidaasa
Bhavabhooti, Maagha, Visaakhadatta, Sudraka are great poets and dramatists in Sanskrit Language
[4] Gurajada Apparao is an eminent Telugu dramatist.
[5] Thagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri are Carnatic Music Trinity, all born in Tiruvaarur, Tamilnadu, India and are great saint-composers and musicians.
[6] M. S. Subbulakshmi most popular Carnatic Musician
[7] Ravi Varma is a famous artist and painter from Kerala of South India.
[8] Bharata Muni and Siddhendra Yogi (from Kuchipudi, Andhrapradesh, India) are theoreticians of Dance Drama in Indian tradition