Dhrupad is a style of music influenced by the incantatory resonance of Sama Veda. The Seers of the Vedas are often referred to as Vipras: the word vipra being a cognate of the English words vibration and vibe. The Vipra "may have denoted a moved, inspired, ecstatic, and enthusiastic seer as a bearer or pronouncer of the emotional and vibrating, metrical sacred words (Jan Gonda, Vision of the Vedic Poets, p. n 45). The Vipra, then, was one who experienced the vibration, energy, and rapture of religious and aesthetic cognition. The word dhrupad is derived from the words dhruva (Pole Star) and the word pada (poetry). All Indian classical music orbits tonally, in unwavering waves of contemplation, the bright, unmoving "Pole Star" of the tonic. Devotional rather than merely for entertainment, the dhrupad style flows from the heart's utter core. Scholars trace dhrupad imagery back to Ajaikapada (Aja Ekapada) of the Vedas.Ekapada-Trimurti
Swami Lakshmanjoo and Pandit Muju's 1974 – 1975 original reads as follows:
Verse 116
Wherever (towards any object or idea) the mind moves (outwardly or inwardly) God-consciousness is there, at that point. Absence of God-consciousness cannot be.
Please refer to Jaideva Singh's The Yoga of Delight Wonder and Astonishment and to Lakshmanjoo & Hughes's The Manual for Self-Realization for comments.
