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வாரும் அத்தி வரதரே… போய்
வாரும் அத்தி வரதரே…
வாரும் நாற்பது
ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பின்…
வாரும் நாற்பது
ஆண்டுகளுக்குப்
பின்..இப்போ
தாரும் உங்கள் அருளாசி
நமக்கு..இப்போ
தாரும் உங்கள் அருளாசி
நமக்கு…
காரும் சீரும் உலவும்
காஞ்சியில்
ஊரும் உலகும் கண்ட வரதரே
பாரும் எங்களை…உங்கள் கடைக் கண்ணினால்…
BHAJA GOVINDAM
STANZA 2
Give up, O fool, your thirst to amass wealth, devote your mind to the thoughts of the Real, let dispassion fill your mind. Be content with what comes through actions already performed in the past.
If man has lot of wealth, he utilizes it for the pleasures and sense gratifications. wealth by itself is innocuous.
Adi Shankara wants us to give up the thirst for wealth.
Being in the world, we have to give up only our greed and covetousness.
This mental renunciation at once brings peace of mind and happiness and slowly leads us to immortality.
” Not by rituals, not by progeny, not by wealth, but by renunciation along some attained Immortality.”
Mudha jahini dhanagamatrsnam
kuru sadbuddhim manasi vitrsnam
yallabhase nijakarmopattam
vittam tena vinodaya cittam
…. Bhaja Govindam… Bhaja Govindam….Bhaja Govindam…
From Sri Ramakrishna math
From Delusion to Reality.
…. V.Meenakshi Jayakumar
EVERY SEEKER OF TRUTH who cares to achieve self mastery and sense control should carefully read and assimilate the teachings of Sri Adi Shankara.
Self knowledge is vital. All other forms of knowledge are of secondary importance. To stress this point to make everyone to understand as who man is so foolish as he is in his conduct and behaviour to give him a real shake up of his values and to show him the path for attaining eternal and inner peace and feel blessed.
Bhaja Govindam has a universal appeal as its meaning goes straight to the heart.
from today lets begin to chant and understand the real meaning behind Bhaja Govindam…
Character is Self restraint.
Self restraint is Self direction
Self direction is concentration.
Concentration when perfect is Samadhi.
From perfect work to perfect mukti.
This is the swing of the soul.
Let us then be perfect in work.
….The Vedanta Kesari. June 2019.
If the poor cannot come to education… Education must go to them.
Swami Vivekananda
I am not the body.
I am different from the body.
I experience The Truth through this body.
Mind that matters.
If something known to the mind then it affects. If ignorant then no problem.
So keep the mind United with which is Sacred .
Do work. Be workaholic. No problem. But able to withdraw anytime without any attachment is really matters.
NOWKA CHARITRAM
INTRODUCTION
OPERAS:
Saint Sri Tyagaraja… the great Rama Bhaktha,, Avatara of Purandaradasa, previously, Valmiki, before that Narada Himself.. wrote Nowka Charitram.
Nowka Charitram is a Opera. Opera is a musical drama. Opera is a drama of any description set to music. Actually in some dramas, there is no music and there are some dramas with music, it is merely incidental. But for Operas music in an indivisible element. In fact is forms an integral part of it. Whereas drama is a literary form, opera is a musical and a literary form combined.
Gita Govinda of Jayadeva 12th century and Krishna Leela Tarangini of Sri Narayana Theertha 16th century are classic examples. Both these works were however designed by the respective authors as dance drams. But in South Indian Languages operas come only from 17th century.
Operas are popular in all countries. In German, there are words to express the opera meaning. In the history of every country, we find that the opera comes later than the drama. The European opera had its origin about three and half centuries ago. It had its beginnings in Italy and since then has had a continuous development ( Prof. P. Sambamoorthy)
Operas are interesting art forms. Well trained orchestraspovide the musical accompaniment in operas. Operas appeal o the initiated and the uninitiated alike. In the Opera, the happy consummation of all the fine arts. It is not right to think that opera is merely a concert in costume. Music is not super imposed on the play.
Points to be kept in mind for operas:
INFLUENCE OF MUSIC
The influence of music upon emotions has been studied for a long time.
Experiments and observations have been collected, recorded and discussed. We know that music can elicit certain psychological , psychosomatic reactions with the spheres of circulation, respiration and others. it is found that music can influence the mood and other psychological conditions in a large group of people. Here music definition differs and also the effect differs from individual to individual. Effects may be classified as physical, emotional, behavioral, quantitative, qualitative, integrative, etc.,
music may vary, effect may vary but yet we can find out the required result by careful planning proper control over the situation, proper conduct of experiments a various levels.
we need musically trained psychiatrist and musicologist to be present and engaged in the activity.
—to be continued
DR.V.V.MEENAKSHI JAYAKUMAR
OBLIGATIONS
We know not when we leave, when life returns
So with this body, let us do good turns.
The soul often changes the body according to karma when and how we do not know .
Life is a mystery which comes and leaves the body and where it goes we cannot see.
Life is sure, only as long as it lives in this body
A bomb, a quake, a flood, a war can root out cities in no time.
The phase of the world changes daily.
Our body is doomed to fall one day life the petals of a flower.
So while yet it ensures, let us hasten to perfect ourselves and help our fellow-beings as best as we can.