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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter J

Jagat

World Religion
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The manifested world, the realm of change and illusion in Hindu philosophy, often contrasted with the eternal and unchanging Brahman.

Detailed Definition
Jagat in poetry is the fleeting stage of illusion—the dancing lights, the shifting shadows, the laughter that fades. Poets use it to contrast the transient with the eternal, making every rose, every tear, every sunrise a reminder: all is passing. Yet in this impermanence lies the beauty that makes devotion possible—the world is dream, but the dream is holy.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Vedantic poem: "Jagat—dream of Brahman, / beautiful, fleeting, / not to be clung to"; A modern verse: "Social media scroll—/ Jagat’s latest illusion, / shiny and empty"; A haiku: "Cherry blossoms fall—/ Jagat’s truth: beauty / in impermanence"; Another: "Jagat isn’t prison—/ it’s the stage where / the soul plays and learns"; A devotional lyric: "Enjoy Jagat, but remember—/ you are the dreamer, / not the dream"; A minimalist verse: "World as play. World as test. / Jagat: temporary / reality."
Additional Notes
Jagat as the world of illusion (maya) is the stage for spiritual drama; in poetry, its transience is depicted through fleeting images—flowers wilting, rivers flowing—making it the foil for the eternal (Nitya), crucial for interpreting metaphysical poetry where beauty is poignant because it fades.
Also Known As
World Phenomenal Universe Maya
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