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Sri Raagam
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This is a Janya Raagam of Karahara Priya ( Hari Hara PriyA ) ,the 22nd MeLakarthA Raagam . Prior to Saint ThyagarAjA's time , composers did not use Karahara PriyA much . Just as Sri Dikshitharmade the MeLa Raagam MaayA Maalava Goulai and its janya raagams famous through use in his krithis , Our Sadhguru Swami used Karahara PriyA MeLa Raagam for composing many of his krithis and also used many of its janya Raagams to salute this Raaga devathai .Hari NaarAyaNan has given room for Haran in His body and therefore thisraagam gets the special attention of Sriman Rama NaarAyaNan .Sri Raagam is one of the most auspicious janya Raagamsof Karahara priyA MeLa Raagam . For the sake of completeness ,I will compile the other Janya Raagaas of Karahara PriyA ,which have been used by our Sadhguru and his cohorts to offer their salutations to the Lord and His consort :AbhOgi , Kannadagowla , KalAnidhi , Kaanada , Kaapi ,Kumudapriya , JayanthasEnA , Jaya NaarAyaNi ,DarbhAr , DevaghAndhAri , DevamanOhari , DevAmruthavarshiNi ,NaadhavarangiNi , PushpalathikA , Pala Manjari ,BrindhAvana SaarangA , Manjari , MaNiranghu ,MadhyamAvathi , ManOhari , MaadhavamanOhari ,MaaLavasri , MukhAri , RudrapriyA , SRI , Sri Ranjanai ,Suddha DanyAsi , SvarabhUshaNi , SaaLagabhairavi ,Saindhavi , Hari NaarAyaNi , HusEni and many others . The SRI Raagam with its auspicious association withMahA Lakshmi stands out among them with its Special Rishabham . In this Raagam , Rishabham and NishAdhamserve as ChAyA Svarams as well . The experts have charactrized the place of Rishabham in Sri Raagam in the context of the other Rishabhams assoicated with the other four Raagams -- Naatai , Gowlai , Aarabhi andVaraaLi -- selected by the Saint for the four other Gana Raaga Pancharathna Krithis this way :" Sri Raagam raises Rishabham again from the shadow of thepowerful GhAndhAram , where it rested in the case of VarALi .The Rishabham of Sri Raagam ascends to its natural position and is present in its simplest , purest form , an unvaried tone freed from the curves and the implied directionality , which itcarries in Naatai , GowLai , Aarabhi and VarALi .... This total purity is the melodic correlate of the silence of Nirvikalpa SamAdhi and the Aanandham that is associated with that anubhavam " . The unique Rishabha Svaram of Sri Raagam is capable of conferring sarva ManagaLams in every direction it is heard.Its tonal auspiciousness is equivalent to the MangaLams that are conferred by the glances of Maha Lakshmi inany direction they fall ( YasyAm YasyAm disi ViharathE dEvi dhrishtistvadheeyA , tasyAm tasyAm ahamahimikAm tanvathE sampadhOghA : ) .
THE SRI RAAGA KRITHIS OF SAINT TYAGARAJA
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Saint ThyagarAjA composed three Krithis in Sri Raagam :1. Naama KusumamulachE pUjimchE --2. YukthamugjAthu Nannu RakshimthsayunTEthi--3. YentharO MahAnubhAvulu ---Before we focus on the Saahithya Vaakhyams of " YentharO MahAnubhAvulu " , it is appropriate to appreciate the devotion-soaked mind set of ourSadhguru as revealed in the " Naama KusumamulE--"krithi .
SAAHITHYA VAAKHYAMS OF " NAAMA KUSUMAMULE--"*************************************************************
Pallavi : Naama kusumamulachE pUjinchE nara janamamE janmamu --manasA
Anupallavi : Sriman Maanasa kanaka peeTamuna chElaka jEsikOni varasivarAma
CharaNam : Naadhasvaramanu vara navarathnapu Vaidhikapai sakala leelA vinOdhuni paramAthmuni , Sri Raamuni paadhamulani ThyagarAja hrudh bhUshaNuni ( Naama Kusuma --) ।In a Rithigowlai krithi ( Raagarathna MaalikachE --) ,Saint ThyagarAjA reminded us that Sri RamachandrA is shining with the garland of songs set in hundreds ofgems of RaagAs by him to gain his salvation । He invited us tojoin with him and sing His glories and attain all blessings from Him ( BhAga sEvichi sakala BhagyamOnnadhudhAmu rArE ) .In this Sri Raaga Krithi , he decribes the ArchanA that we should perform to the Lord seated on the gem-bedecked seat of susvarAs with the flowers of His thousand names . He invites usto perform maanaseeka ArAdhanam and worship Him with the flowers of His holy names such as RaamA , SivA ( Auspiciousness ) .The Raama chaithanyA points out that the life of a human being is truly blessed , when he or she installs the Lord on the golden throne of the mind and worships Him with His sacred Naama--KusumAs . He asks us and his mind as well to place the reveller in the sport of Universe ( BhOga Murthy ) , the ornament of ThyagarAjA's heart on the navarathna simhAsanam made up of SvarAs born out of NadhOpAsanA and cover His holy feet upto HIs ankles with the fragrant flowers of His nAmAs . Why this emphasis on Naamas and Naama KusumAs ? Sri VishNu sahasra nAmam explains to us that the names of the Lord are elaboration of His kalyANa guNAs ( Yaani nAmAniGouNAni ) . The Lord of infinite KalyANa guNas has infinite ,sacred names corresponding to them . Bhagavatham pointsout therefore , each name of the Lord is a tribute to His fame , valor and auspicious attribute ( NaamAnyananthasya YasOankithAni ) . The worship with the flowers of His naamAs gives us infinite bliss ( samaraNE Sukham -- Janaranjani krithi ) .The glories of this type of worship with flowers of His names purify every one from the great scholar to an unlettered person ( Paamara Panditha pAvanakara NaamadhEya -- Maahuri krithiof Sri Dikshithar , Maamava Raghuvara ) . The Upanishads and VedAs inform us about the blessings ofNaama kusumArchanA in the emotion-driven yugam of kali :1 . bhagavatha Adhipurushasya NaarayaNasya naamOccharaNa --mathrENa nirdhUtha Kalirbhavathi --Kali SantharONOpanishad ( At the very moment , when we recite the name of the primordialBhagavAn , Sriman NaarAyaNan , the dhOshams of Kali getsshaken off ) .2. Rg Vedam 2.1.13 : tvAm jihvAm suchascchakrirE kavE ( O poet of penetrating Vision ! the pious people have made YOU their tongue ) .3. VishNu purANam 6.2.17 : " Meditation( DhyAnam ) in Krutha YugA , sacrifices ( Yaj~nams) in TrEthA yugam , Worship in DvApara Yugam -- what these give , one attains their equivalent fruits in Kali Yugam by merelyperforming Naama KusumArchanai " .VishNu purANam goes onto say that One can get liberation from one'saccumulated sins by performing Naama KusumArchanA even as one walks , stands , lies down , drinks , eats or bends down ॥PrAyschitthAn asEshANi tapa: karmAthmakAni vai IyAni thEshAm asEshANAm KrishNAnusmaraNam param II( the expiation of all expiations is the thought of the Lord with the uttering of His names )HarE: nAmaiva nAmaiva mama jeevanam IKalou nAsthyEva nAsthyEva nAsthyEva gathiranyathA II ( In Kali yugam , NaamA of the Lord alone is the means ; there is no other path ) .maa RuchO maaYajusthAtha maa Saama pata kimchana IGOvindhEthi HarErnAma ghEyam gAyasva nithyasa: INaarAyaNEthi sabdhOsi vAgasthi vasavardhini ItathApi narakE ghorE pathanthee yethadh adhbhutham II( You need not recite Rig vEdic Rks , Yajus , or Saamans .Sing the Lord's names and offer Naama KusumArchanai .There are the Lord's names , there is the tongue under one's control , still humans descend into narakams ( hell ) . What a strange happening ? ) Naama SiddhAntham propounded by Saint ThyagarAjA is the NaamAmurutha SUryOdhayam for one's dark night of SamsAric Sufferings . This is the NaamAmrutha RasAyanam that chases away one's samsAric illness . That is why ,Saint ThyagarAjA celebrated the Lord's names as " VedasAramuNaamadhEyamunu " in his MukhAri Krithi , TalachinantanE .That is why , Sri Dikshithar celebrated Raama Naamam as " Naama keerthana Taarakam in his VasanthA krithi ,Sri Raamachandhram BhAvayAmi . As upAyA and upEyA ,the naamAs of the Lord and the manaseeka archanA ofthe Lord with those powerful names have no equal . The fragrant memory of the names of the Lord is the sure means for one's salvation . In the Sri Raaga Krithi extolling the sacredness of the Namesof the Lord , the Garbha BhaagavathA , Saint ThyagarAjA reminds us of the power of Naama KusumArchanai togain moksham . He taught us here UpEya Naama vivEkam .The power of Such a naama kusumaarchanA done by BhagavathAs is described by Saint ThyagarAjA in his SahAnA krithi ,Vandanamu RaghunandanA : " The Lord's Naama Japam and Archanaa with those names bring prosperity here on His earth , and lead one to the right path leading to the abode of Divinity ( Sri Vaikuntam ) " . Sri ThyagarAja Swamy , who performed 96 crores of ArchanAsat the Lord's feet with Naama Kusumams followed the vidhi ( injunctions ) set by Tatthva samgraha RaamAyaNam's Sundara KhAndham , which prescribes directions for the adorationof Raama naamA ( Raama Manthra Purascharanam and KriyA yOgam ) .It unambigously states that Raama ManthrA itself is to be used as the flowers for the Manaseeka pUjA in the pushpArchanA .Such is the power of Naama kusumArchanA of the Lord performed by true BhagavathAs . That is why , Saint ThyagarAjA celebrated Bhagavatha Nishtai as an unfailing method of Prapatthiin his Sri Raaga Krithi , " YentharO MahAnubhAvulu "I conclude this posting with the smaraNam of the Sacred feet of the Raghu Raaman standing on the top of the seven hills ,which are covered upto His ankles with the Naama KusumAsfrom the archanai of the BhagavathAs , dEvAs and Nithya sUris :aanUpurArpitha sujAtha sugandhi pushpa--sourabhya sourabhakarou samasannivEsou Isoumyou sadhAnubhavanE api navAnubhAvyou SRI VENKATESA SARANOU SARANM PRAPADHYE II( I surrender at the feet of the Lord of seven hills and seek those feet as my shelter. Those sacred feet add fragrance to the scent of the sweet-perfumed flowers offered upto Hisankles. These feet are symmetrically placed and are beautiful to experience with their coverage of forever fragrant flowers ( Naama kusumAs ) . They are enjoyable anew in an aparyApthAmurutham sense and gives us the anubhavam of never-ending aanandham ) .Sri SadhguravE Nama:Sri Jaanaki RamaNa ParabrahmaNE Nama:Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan
Derived from :
Raagas derived :
Song(s) in Sri ragam :
srikamalambike-sriragam-dikshitar.mp3 ====>Lyrics
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Sri Raagam
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This is a Janya Raagam of Karahara Priya ( Hari Hara PriyA ) ,the 22nd MeLakarthA Raagam . Prior to Saint ThyagarAjA's time , composers did not use Karahara PriyA much . Just as Sri Dikshitharmade the MeLa Raagam MaayA Maalava Goulai and its janya raagams famous through use in his krithis , Our Sadhguru Swami used Karahara PriyA MeLa Raagam for composing many of his krithis and also used many of its janya Raagams to salute this Raaga devathai .Hari NaarAyaNan has given room for Haran in His body and therefore thisraagam gets the special attention of Sriman Rama NaarAyaNan .Sri Raagam is one of the most auspicious janya Raagamsof Karahara priyA MeLa Raagam . For the sake of completeness ,I will compile the other Janya Raagaas of Karahara PriyA ,which have been used by our Sadhguru and his cohorts to offer their salutations to the Lord and His consort :AbhOgi , Kannadagowla , KalAnidhi , Kaanada , Kaapi ,Kumudapriya , JayanthasEnA , Jaya NaarAyaNi ,DarbhAr , DevaghAndhAri , DevamanOhari , DevAmruthavarshiNi ,NaadhavarangiNi , PushpalathikA , Pala Manjari ,BrindhAvana SaarangA , Manjari , MaNiranghu ,MadhyamAvathi , ManOhari , MaadhavamanOhari ,MaaLavasri , MukhAri , RudrapriyA , SRI , Sri Ranjanai ,Suddha DanyAsi , SvarabhUshaNi , SaaLagabhairavi ,Saindhavi , Hari NaarAyaNi , HusEni and many others . The SRI Raagam with its auspicious association withMahA Lakshmi stands out among them with its Special Rishabham . In this Raagam , Rishabham and NishAdhamserve as ChAyA Svarams as well . The experts have charactrized the place of Rishabham in Sri Raagam in the context of the other Rishabhams assoicated with the other four Raagams -- Naatai , Gowlai , Aarabhi andVaraaLi -- selected by the Saint for the four other Gana Raaga Pancharathna Krithis this way :" Sri Raagam raises Rishabham again from the shadow of thepowerful GhAndhAram , where it rested in the case of VarALi .The Rishabham of Sri Raagam ascends to its natural position and is present in its simplest , purest form , an unvaried tone freed from the curves and the implied directionality , which itcarries in Naatai , GowLai , Aarabhi and VarALi .... This total purity is the melodic correlate of the silence of Nirvikalpa SamAdhi and the Aanandham that is associated with that anubhavam " . The unique Rishabha Svaram of Sri Raagam is capable of conferring sarva ManagaLams in every direction it is heard.Its tonal auspiciousness is equivalent to the MangaLams that are conferred by the glances of Maha Lakshmi inany direction they fall ( YasyAm YasyAm disi ViharathE dEvi dhrishtistvadheeyA , tasyAm tasyAm ahamahimikAm tanvathE sampadhOghA : ) .
THE SRI RAAGA KRITHIS OF SAINT TYAGARAJA
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Saint ThyagarAjA composed three Krithis in Sri Raagam :1. Naama KusumamulachE pUjimchE --2. YukthamugjAthu Nannu RakshimthsayunTEthi--3. YentharO MahAnubhAvulu ---Before we focus on the Saahithya Vaakhyams of " YentharO MahAnubhAvulu " , it is appropriate to appreciate the devotion-soaked mind set of ourSadhguru as revealed in the " Naama KusumamulE--"krithi .
SAAHITHYA VAAKHYAMS OF " NAAMA KUSUMAMULE--"*************************************************************
Pallavi : Naama kusumamulachE pUjinchE nara janamamE janmamu --manasA
Anupallavi : Sriman Maanasa kanaka peeTamuna chElaka jEsikOni varasivarAma
CharaNam : Naadhasvaramanu vara navarathnapu Vaidhikapai sakala leelA vinOdhuni paramAthmuni , Sri Raamuni paadhamulani ThyagarAja hrudh bhUshaNuni ( Naama Kusuma --) ।In a Rithigowlai krithi ( Raagarathna MaalikachE --) ,Saint ThyagarAjA reminded us that Sri RamachandrA is shining with the garland of songs set in hundreds ofgems of RaagAs by him to gain his salvation । He invited us tojoin with him and sing His glories and attain all blessings from Him ( BhAga sEvichi sakala BhagyamOnnadhudhAmu rArE ) .In this Sri Raaga Krithi , he decribes the ArchanA that we should perform to the Lord seated on the gem-bedecked seat of susvarAs with the flowers of His thousand names . He invites usto perform maanaseeka ArAdhanam and worship Him with the flowers of His holy names such as RaamA , SivA ( Auspiciousness ) .The Raama chaithanyA points out that the life of a human being is truly blessed , when he or she installs the Lord on the golden throne of the mind and worships Him with His sacred Naama--KusumAs . He asks us and his mind as well to place the reveller in the sport of Universe ( BhOga Murthy ) , the ornament of ThyagarAjA's heart on the navarathna simhAsanam made up of SvarAs born out of NadhOpAsanA and cover His holy feet upto HIs ankles with the fragrant flowers of His nAmAs . Why this emphasis on Naamas and Naama KusumAs ? Sri VishNu sahasra nAmam explains to us that the names of the Lord are elaboration of His kalyANa guNAs ( Yaani nAmAniGouNAni ) . The Lord of infinite KalyANa guNas has infinite ,sacred names corresponding to them . Bhagavatham pointsout therefore , each name of the Lord is a tribute to His fame , valor and auspicious attribute ( NaamAnyananthasya YasOankithAni ) . The worship with the flowers of His naamAs gives us infinite bliss ( samaraNE Sukham -- Janaranjani krithi ) .The glories of this type of worship with flowers of His names purify every one from the great scholar to an unlettered person ( Paamara Panditha pAvanakara NaamadhEya -- Maahuri krithiof Sri Dikshithar , Maamava Raghuvara ) . The Upanishads and VedAs inform us about the blessings ofNaama kusumArchanA in the emotion-driven yugam of kali :1 . bhagavatha Adhipurushasya NaarayaNasya naamOccharaNa --mathrENa nirdhUtha Kalirbhavathi --Kali SantharONOpanishad ( At the very moment , when we recite the name of the primordialBhagavAn , Sriman NaarAyaNan , the dhOshams of Kali getsshaken off ) .2. Rg Vedam 2.1.13 : tvAm jihvAm suchascchakrirE kavE ( O poet of penetrating Vision ! the pious people have made YOU their tongue ) .3. VishNu purANam 6.2.17 : " Meditation( DhyAnam ) in Krutha YugA , sacrifices ( Yaj~nams) in TrEthA yugam , Worship in DvApara Yugam -- what these give , one attains their equivalent fruits in Kali Yugam by merelyperforming Naama KusumArchanai " .VishNu purANam goes onto say that One can get liberation from one'saccumulated sins by performing Naama KusumArchanA even as one walks , stands , lies down , drinks , eats or bends down ॥PrAyschitthAn asEshANi tapa: karmAthmakAni vai IyAni thEshAm asEshANAm KrishNAnusmaraNam param II( the expiation of all expiations is the thought of the Lord with the uttering of His names )HarE: nAmaiva nAmaiva mama jeevanam IKalou nAsthyEva nAsthyEva nAsthyEva gathiranyathA II ( In Kali yugam , NaamA of the Lord alone is the means ; there is no other path ) .maa RuchO maaYajusthAtha maa Saama pata kimchana IGOvindhEthi HarErnAma ghEyam gAyasva nithyasa: INaarAyaNEthi sabdhOsi vAgasthi vasavardhini ItathApi narakE ghorE pathanthee yethadh adhbhutham II( You need not recite Rig vEdic Rks , Yajus , or Saamans .Sing the Lord's names and offer Naama KusumArchanai .There are the Lord's names , there is the tongue under one's control , still humans descend into narakams ( hell ) . What a strange happening ? ) Naama SiddhAntham propounded by Saint ThyagarAjA is the NaamAmurutha SUryOdhayam for one's dark night of SamsAric Sufferings . This is the NaamAmrutha RasAyanam that chases away one's samsAric illness . That is why ,Saint ThyagarAjA celebrated the Lord's names as " VedasAramuNaamadhEyamunu " in his MukhAri Krithi , TalachinantanE .That is why , Sri Dikshithar celebrated Raama Naamam as " Naama keerthana Taarakam in his VasanthA krithi ,Sri Raamachandhram BhAvayAmi . As upAyA and upEyA ,the naamAs of the Lord and the manaseeka archanA ofthe Lord with those powerful names have no equal . The fragrant memory of the names of the Lord is the sure means for one's salvation . In the Sri Raaga Krithi extolling the sacredness of the Namesof the Lord , the Garbha BhaagavathA , Saint ThyagarAjA reminds us of the power of Naama KusumArchanai togain moksham . He taught us here UpEya Naama vivEkam .The power of Such a naama kusumaarchanA done by BhagavathAs is described by Saint ThyagarAjA in his SahAnA krithi ,Vandanamu RaghunandanA : " The Lord's Naama Japam and Archanaa with those names bring prosperity here on His earth , and lead one to the right path leading to the abode of Divinity ( Sri Vaikuntam ) " . Sri ThyagarAja Swamy , who performed 96 crores of ArchanAsat the Lord's feet with Naama Kusumams followed the vidhi ( injunctions ) set by Tatthva samgraha RaamAyaNam's Sundara KhAndham , which prescribes directions for the adorationof Raama naamA ( Raama Manthra Purascharanam and KriyA yOgam ) .It unambigously states that Raama ManthrA itself is to be used as the flowers for the Manaseeka pUjA in the pushpArchanA .Such is the power of Naama kusumArchanA of the Lord performed by true BhagavathAs . That is why , Saint ThyagarAjA celebrated Bhagavatha Nishtai as an unfailing method of Prapatthiin his Sri Raaga Krithi , " YentharO MahAnubhAvulu "I conclude this posting with the smaraNam of the Sacred feet of the Raghu Raaman standing on the top of the seven hills ,which are covered upto His ankles with the Naama KusumAsfrom the archanai of the BhagavathAs , dEvAs and Nithya sUris :aanUpurArpitha sujAtha sugandhi pushpa--sourabhya sourabhakarou samasannivEsou Isoumyou sadhAnubhavanE api navAnubhAvyou SRI VENKATESA SARANOU SARANM PRAPADHYE II( I surrender at the feet of the Lord of seven hills and seek those feet as my shelter. Those sacred feet add fragrance to the scent of the sweet-perfumed flowers offered upto Hisankles. These feet are symmetrically placed and are beautiful to experience with their coverage of forever fragrant flowers ( Naama kusumAs ) . They are enjoyable anew in an aparyApthAmurutham sense and gives us the anubhavam of never-ending aanandham ) .Sri SadhguravE Nama:Sri Jaanaki RamaNa ParabrahmaNE Nama:Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan
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