It is Nostalgic for me to tell about my feelings about Rain! Needles to say that RAIN is one of the BLESSINGS to us by God ! The beauty of rain is simply unexplaineble! Just sitting behind the window and witnessing the falling rain is an amazing experience and getting drenched enjoying the same is much more amazing and I did it! The action just brought out the child in me. Reminded of the golden childhood days, when, in spite of tauntings from elders I used to go out in rains. Every time I get drenched while coming from school, the scoldings and question as to why I did not wait for the rains to stop, used to be nothing but an amusement to me! Rain is such a great pleasure. Leave along getting drenchd! Just seeing the rain falling is a great pleasure. It used to be nice seeing people running to get away from rains, searching for shelters; some would be scolding the rainfall in spite of holding umbrellas to cover themselves. Their usual grudge would be that the weather had completely changed and that it rained not in the usual rainy season, etc. etc. And very rarely you can see anybody enjoying the rain and walking in a relaxed way! The fall of rain used to be a music for my ears. The pouring is rythemic and one should enjoy the way it stops. The rain never stops abruptly. The way it slows down is musical and it reminds me the way a song gets ended. If one is able to love the rains, he would really love the whole humanity. This is my perception.
Here, let us hear a melodious flute recital depicting the fall of rain! Sounds associating to the fall of rain gives a clear picture of rain fall in front of our eyes. It is such a beautiful performance by Kudamaloor Janardhanan! This is one among the other beautiful songs in the list! Please get drenched in the musical rain too! (You can also hear a conversation in Malayalam with Kudamaloor regarding Music.)
One may not believe, as I am writing this , it has started raining outside already!
NATURE IS HUMANE!
Maharajapuram Santhanam
An excerpt from Wikipedia's page about the famous Carnatic Singer Maharajapuram Santhanam states the following:
"Besides studying with his father, he was also a disciple of Melattur Sama Dikshitar. Maharajapuram Santhanam was also a distinguished composer. He wrote many songs on Lord Murugan and Kanchi Shankaracharya, His Holiness Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Swamigal (Maha Periyavar). He was the Principal of Ramanathan College in Sri Lanka. Later he came and settled in Chennai. The songs which were popularised by Maharajapuram Santhanam are "Unnai Allal" (Kalyani Raga), "Sadha Nin Padhame gathi, Varam onnru" (Shanmukhapriya), "Bho Shambo" (Revati), "Madhura Madhura" (Bagheshri), "Srichakra Raja" (Ragamalika), "Nalinakaanthimathim" (Ragamalika),"Ksheerabdi kannike" (Ragamalika) among others. The Maharajapuram Santhanam Day is celebrated on the 3rd of December every year.He died in a car accident in 1992. His sons Maharajapuram S. Srinivasan and Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran and his primary disciple Dr. R. Ganesh are now carrying on his musical tradition.
His other most popular songs are Purandaradasa kritis: "Narayana ninna" (Shuddha Dhanyasi) and "Govinda ninna". His rendition of "Vilayada ithu nerama muruga" cannot be replicated by any other artiste. His renditions were full of Bhakthi"
Any admirer of Carnatic Music would definitely appreciate and enjoy the
lyrics of the Great MUTHUSWAMI DIKSHITHAR,
one of the three trinities of Carnatic Music. Muthuswami Dikshithar was born in
the year 1775 as the eldest son of
Ramaswami Dhikshithar abd Subbamma at Thiruvarur in Tanjore District of
Tamilnadu.
He created about 500 compositions in total. Most of his songs are widely sung
by Carnatic Musicians in their performances till today. Some of his krithis are set in rare ragas. The lyrics are in Sanskrit and most of them are easily understandable. The lyrics as such are very musical and very beautiful. All through his life, he had been travelling and had visited most of the temples in South India. The songs written by him are on the deities of the temples he visited. The unique feature of his writings is that all his krithis are created in an
excellent manner.
Let us hear some of his popular songs here.
1."siddhi vinAyakam anisham" in rAga 'shaNmukhapriyA' by Sri
K.J.Jesudas:
The list goes on and on.These are just samples of the Great veteran Sri Muthuswami Dheekshithar. I take pride in presenting these as a tribute to the great soul.
