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Thread #164527   Message #3938023
Posted By: Joe Offer
17-Jul-18 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Evening Rise, Spirit Come
Subject: RE: Origins: Evening Rise, Spirit Come
I found lyrics here: https://mein.yoga-vidya.de/profiles/blogs/evening-rise, which says the song is from "Female Affairs." Lyrics are an endless repetition of:

Explanation: Evening Rise Spirit Come is the English version of an Indian song, probably a Hopi song. It is one of the best known shamanic songs. Meanwhile, it is also sung in numerous Christian churches, in children's choirs, etc. Unlike other Indian shamanic songs, it's more of a quiet, sustained, meditative song.

There are several ways to translate the Evening Rise Spirit Come. Basically, the meaning of a kirtan is more than the meaning of each word. For a bhakta, a worshiper of God, a kirtanist, a kirtan is a praise of God. Often, even in India, the singers are unaware of what the meaning of the words is. They simply feel Bhakti, devotion, love, closeness to God.

"Evening rise, spirit come" is a song based on an ancient Native American tradition, it is a song that can be found on the Internet again and again. "Evening rise, spirit come sun goes down when the day is done" is a song that is based on an Indian folk song. We love to sing that at Yoga Vidya, it's also a three-part evening song, which came by way of Christian Bollmann to Germany, but you can find it even in older traditions already in America. "Evening rise, spirit come" is thus an Indian song, a shamanic song, a song of natural spirituality, which is also referred to in the Christian as a creative spirituality.

"Evening rise, the evening is coming, spirit come, the spirit is coming, sun goes down, the sun is going down, when the day is done, when the day is over. Mother Earth awakens me, Mother Earth awakens me, with the heartbeat of the sea, with the heartbeat of the ocean, the sea. "Evening rise", so "the evening rises and the spirit comes." What expresses, especially at sunset and sunrise, the divine spirit is particularly noticeable, the soul, ultimately the divine mother is particularly noticeable at sunrise and sunset. The sun may set when the day is over, but Mother Earth will awaken you in a deeper way. It awakens you with the heartbeat of the sea, but it also awakens you when you sing, when you meditate, when you tune in to the Divine Mother, you feel it very strongly.

And so this "Evening rise, spirit come" is a beautiful song, it is a happy song, but at the same time a yearning song. One can say that the spiritual songs can either be very dynamic, ecstatic, they can be very yearning, or they can also be happy, march-like. "Evening rise, spirit come" is a mixture of a happy song and a yearning song that touches the heart deeply. "Evening rise, spirit come, the evening is coming, may the soul come, may we experience the divine spirit."

Here's a recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJNqua_Plm0