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.

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

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Vedanta

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 philosophical conclusion of the Vedas, emphasizing the non-dual unity of Atman and Brahman, and the path of knowledge to liberation.

Detailed Definition
Vedanta in poetry is the voice that says, “You are that”—not as belief, but as recognition. Poets use it to dissolve the seeker into the sought: the poem is not about God, but is God’s breath. It becomes the poem’s final line: not explanation, but awakening—the reader, at last, remembers.
Example
Example in poetry:
Vedanta is the end of knowledge—A Upanishadic poem: “Vedanta doesn’t teach—it removes the veil: ‘You are not the body, you are the awareness’”; A modern lyric: “I read Vedanta in a bus—suddenly, the noise faded, and I was the silence”; A haiku: “Not I. Not this. / Vedanta: ‘Thou art That’”; Another: “Vedanta isn’t philosophy—it’s the realization that you’ve always been whole”; A devotional verse: “Guru says: ‘Stop seeking—Vedanta says you are the sought’”; A minimalist line: “Final teaching. Non-dual truth. / Vedanta: you are Brahman.”
Additional Notes
Vedanta is not philosophy but direct realization; its core is “Tat Tvam Asi”—Thou art That; in poetry, it dissolves subject-object duality, making the poet and the divine one; this transforms verse from description to revelation, essential for interpreting Advaitic poetry as the voice of Brahman speaking through the human.
Also Known As
Vedantic Philosophy Upanishadic Philosophy End of the Vedas Brahma Sutras Tradition Upanishad
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