Saint Tyagaraja’s Aradhana
2018
We do not respect any
symbolism but lap up criticisms.
All the noise about
celebrations of a Saint of great musical
Sounds.
Saint Tyagaraja Aradhana, DD’s insensitive telecast and the
defense minister’s correct observations and utter indifference of all other channels.
We fail to write even proper
biographies of great souls.
I am saved because I do not watch television at all but I came across all the noise through social
media about the event celebrating the anniversary of a great soul who imbued
our hearts with wonderful sounds.
It is really unfortunate that we do not respect the great souls
and great contributors to this great nation and its culture even with sincere
symbolism, though sometimes it may be ritualistically performed , still, at
least some reminder happens.
Immediately we flood the society with criticisms like whether Pancharathna
Kritis are meant for goshti ganas [group singing], how can sruti’s of all can
synchronize etc.
We fail to realize that something is better than nothing in a society
which has scant respect for its really most valuable cultural aspects.
The Carnatic Music which has contributions from various composers
like Sri Purandara Dasar, Saint Tyagaraja, Sri Muthuswamy Dikshithar, Sri Shyama Sastrigal, Sri Sadhasiva
Brahmendral, Sri Muthuthandavar , Sri Subramanya Bharathiyar and so on.
Even on biographical sketches of these great souls we tend to
divert from the intrinsic value they added to our lives and discuss irrelevant
things.
It really does not matter whether
Saint Tyagaraja’s stomach was concave or
convex or whether he went to any temple daily because what matters more is his compositions are
imbued with excellent musical structures and patterns and ooze such an enormous
aesthetic emotions that sober the heart, still the mind and carry the soul into
a trance and when one returns back to normal consciousness one finds floating
in an enormous ocean of musical world.
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