Sunday, August 5, 2007

Life history of St. Thyagaraja annotated in Songs!

Recently I came across this video in google videos, which is a "hari-katha" by Mrs. Vishaka Hari on the life and works of St. Thyagaraja, the foremost doyen and the father of carnatic music. Here it is for your listening pleasure.

Once again creadit and tons of gratitude for the uploader of this video. Mrs. Vishaka, I pray the Lord that you continue to enthrall us with such vivid and living imageries of the legends and continue to make them accessible to mortal minds forever !

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Google suggests quite well!

Got a small gift from Google by doing all my research while logged into my iGoogle... in today's recommendations it threw me up this video.

Many thanks are due to the uploader of this video.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

IshAvAsyam idam sarvam

"IshAvAsyam idam sarvam" means "Ishvara is [in] all of this". It is one of the great upanishat mahAvakyas that express a coherent and many times repeated truth in the great scripture that is "the upanishads": All this is Brahman or the absolute reality, the plurality is but an illusion. This thought repeats in many places in the upanishads.