About a month ago my older son showed me a really hilarious break-up video by a pop star named P!nk. Click here on the song title to view that video: “So What”

I could SO relate to the feelings that P!nk portrays in that video. I love how she uses humor (and even some crudeness) to act out the anger, despair, and sorrow that often come with the pain of a broken heart.

After watching that video several times, and laughing heartily each time, I couldn’t get the song and the images out of my mind. Gradually a plan developed for my sons and me to produce a parody video of that song.

So, this past Sunday we converted our temple cottage into a video production studio, and many hours later we uploaded our video to YouTube. Click here on the video title to view: Yogini Tejaswini’s Parody of P!nk’s So What.

Deep gratitude to my sons, Zak and Gabe, for accompanying me on instruments and for filming and mixing… I couldn’t have made this video without their help. They are amazingly bright and talented beings, and I bow to them.

I dedicate this video to all the broken-hearted beings out there. The sorrow of longing for that which cannot be is one of the most difficult emotions to bear. When I am in the depths of that grief, I tell myself (over and over), “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” (Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet) I also just keep chanting the Names of God, knowing that in due time the sorrow state will shift and I will then shine the Light even brighter than before. As I sing in the video, “Om Namah Shivaya. I wanna spread the Light!”

May all beings everywhere know Joy, even amidst the sorrows of life.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of Teja playing harmonium (for So What (P!nk) Parody video) by Gabe Bendat.