A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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.

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

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Sthita Pragya

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 person of steady wisdom, one who remains undisturbed by pleasure or pain, as described in the Bhagavad Gita.

Detailed Definition
Sthita Pragya in poetry is the one who stands in the storm and does not move—the eye of the hurricane, the calm within the cry. Poets use them to depict true strength: not resistance, but surrender to stillness. They become the poem’s ideal: not to conquer the world, but to be untouched by it.
Example
Example in poetry:
Sthita Pragya is the steady sage—A Gita-inspired poem: “Sthita Pragya sits in storm—no fear, no pride, just stillness”; A modern lyric: “My boss yelled—I breathed, smiled, stayed calm—Sthita Pragya in a suit”; A haiku: “Riot outside—Sthita Pragya: / inner silence, outer peace”; Another: “Sthita Pragya isn’t emotionless—it’s the deep calm beneath the waves”; A devotional verse: “Krishna says: ‘He who is unmoved by pleasure or pain—Sthita Pragya is he’”; A minimalist line: “Unshaken mind. Steady wisdom. / Sthita Pragya: the awakened one.”
Additional Notes
Sthita Pragya is the ideal of unshakable wisdom in the Bhagavad Gita; such a person remains equanimous amid pleasure and pain, success and failure; in poetry, this state appears as stillness in turmoil—a warrior unmoved by battle, a lover undisturbed by loss—making it the hallmark of enlightened verse, where emotional constancy signals spiritual maturity, not suppression, essential for interpreting ethical poetry as inner sovereignty.
Also Known As
Steady Wisdom Person of Steady Intellect Gita’s Ideal Sage
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