Alongside the nine mutineers came six Tahitian men and twelve Tahitian women — an unstable human cocktail that would, over the next two centuries, define one of the strangest social experiments in history.

The goal is analogical: to trace how two distinct authorities (a modern lyric that weaponizes liturgical voice and an ancient scripture embedded in soteriological practice) produce convergent human effects.

“Govinda Gopala Mere Nandalala Mere Gopala… Murli Manohara Nanda Lala”🎉… What can one do…singing such words, really… but weep? Perhaps a few words… on the subject of weeping in separation from the Beloved…

In English, particularly to modern readers, “I shall not want” suggests provision, God as the one who satisfies material need. In Spanish, “nada me faltará” is heard as stability: nothing will fail me, nothing will cause me to falter, I will not stumble.

The psalmist turns to the most hidden and inaccessible place of all: the maternal womb. Here, the language shifts from spatial omnipresence to ontological origination. God does not merely observe life; He fashions it.