Led Zeppelin: Kashmir Meaning
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Kashmir Lyrics
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and...
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anonymous Mar 8th, 2014 3:45pm report
The song is about, when in a place or State of Nothing, one can more easily transcend, and find their true higher Self.
Sun beats down upon my face... worldly pressures, stars to fill my dreams... one's hopes for the future.
traveler... elders...gentle race... seldom seen... the few who are Enlightened, waiting for the day when All will Be Revealed (enlightened).
Next verse: he hears the message, but doesn't quite get it.
All I see turns to brown (the color of all colors mixed into One), my eyes fill with sand... for this journey sight is not required. Trying to find where I've been... the higher Self so easily distracted/lost by the same wasted land and ground that is burned by the sun.
Pilot of the storm, leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream... turmoil, trials, tribulations, in life are guides/lessons to the Way (Toa, etc.)
Heed the path that led me, Shangrila, will return again.... A brief experience of Nirvana or Enlightenment from the space created by nothingness (vast desert).
Father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years... a prayer that the higher energy or Being will give him the strength and guidance to make the journey... with no provisions but an open face.... open heart, no baggage, nothing, no Ego... along the straits of fear.... our self created psyche fears bind us in ego fabricated walls of prison... prayer to be free, supported by the Father of the four winds and his open heart... fearless.
When I'm on the way, when I see the way, you-stay... he is now able to transcend on the way, even though you stay... he can/will leave the unenlightened behind.
The song closes out by touching on all humans come down from Nirvana, but when he's down... let me take you there! Desire to show All the way to Nirvana...Starting from a place of Nothing! Nothing: meaning no past, no future, only Now, traveling forever in a sea of brown, with no judgement. -
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anonymous Jul 4th, 2008 7:08pm report
This song is about so much more than drugs or some trip to morroco.
"a traveler of both time and space"
"sit with elders of the gentle race"
"They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed"
"And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I’ve been."
"I’ve been flying, ain’t no denyin’, no denyin’"
Kashmir is the principal point of conflict, a tiny nation in dispute between Pakistan and India.
The history of this area, once the great Rama empire,is what made Robert Oppemheimer say the now famous words
and I qoute from Wikipedia...As Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the demonstration, he later said that a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita came to mind:
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
"This wasted land" is so because of a nuclear war fought there 5000 years ago.
Recorded in thier ancient records, along with hundreds of differnt types of flying machines, both terrestial and interstellar, is a war so devasating between a "gentle race" of spiritual people and a materialistic race of "war mongers" bent on world domination that it distroyed both sides.
Sound familar? History repeats itself to the doom of those who refuse to learn from it.
Great Britain gave back this area in 1947, aprox. Half to the Muslims (Pakistan) and half to the Hindus (India)
Kashmir is in between them both and in dispute.
It is currently again one of the world's most likely places for nuclear war to erupt...and just a small example of how religion is used as a tool in the hands of those who would bring the world again to the brink of annihilation. -
anonymous Nov 13th, 11:54am report
Yes I agree it’s about a travel experience.
Yes I agree it’s also about a drug trip. -
anonymous May 2nd, 2018 5:08am report
Zeppelin is from the future. They jumped back in time to save rock & roll and steer it high above the mountains . Lets face it. " Hammer of the Gods" ring a bell ??
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anonymous Jul 1st, 2017 7:00pm report
I tend to think that this song proves that not only were Led Zeppelin Fans of Tolkien but also viewers of Dr. Who. Just for a laugh imagine you are the companion learning about the Dr. through your experiences with him. A Traveller of both time and space, TARDIS, the Dr.s vehicle is an anagram for Time And Relative Distance In Space.
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anonymous Apr 3rd, 2015 4:59pm report
song about death, about meeting the makers, about traveling back in time & space to the past of one's life experience, about facing up to the sun & stars, about eyes wide open with sand filling in those eyes, about soul flying out of the dead body.
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debra.given.3 Nov 19th, 2014 11:07am report
Inspired time travel novels "The Elder Effect" and "Vital Perception" by D. L. Given
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anonymous Mar 27th, 2014 3:14pm report
Led Zeppelin's song "Kashmir" inspired the novels "The Elder Effect" and "Vital Perception." The author, (D. L. Given) stated in an interview she has no interpretation for the meaning of the song only that is an amazing piece.
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anonymous Mar 9th, 2014 3:19am report
It is about a person's journey to becoming a Bodisattva. If you don't see it, look up the meaning of Bodisattva on Wikipedia.
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anonymous Sep 18th, 2012 9:54pm report
It does seem to bring to mind Doctor Who. The traveler, "Talk and songs from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear" reminds me of "Planet of the Ood". I mean, I get Kashmir and the war, but the razed land, traveling time and space, him trying to find where he's been, it all sounds like it.
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anonymous Jul 21st, 2012 7:13am report
wow a lot of you people are pretty stupid. I don't know what souls and all that crap have to do with Kashmir. It's relating a trip to Morocco to the conflict in Kashmir. Nothing more nothing less. NONE of the member of Led Zeppelin HAVE EVER been to Kashmir.
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