I know it has been a long time since I have posted anything. But I feel that there is no point adding to the already existing cacophony on the net... and unless there is something that is so extraordinarily important to me that I need to put it out there in the hope of finding a resonance, it is better to reside in silence.
I heard Visakha Hari singing Sada Enna Hridayadalli on Friday evening.. the Durbari Kaanada composition by Vijaya Vitthala originally made famous by Bhimsen. I have since spent most of the weekend in a fugue state ... interspersed with a frantic delving into Durbari Kanada, Vijaya Vithala, other dasa compositions etc as if there is an answer therein to the longing encapsulated in Visakha's rendering on Friday. Needless to say, there has been a flagrant disregard for all the activities and chores earmarked for the weekend, which one will handle later.
I have heard this composition before. But the effect of Friday's rendering was profound. Visakha seemed to distill all the essential yearning and the ultimate futility of all our endeavours into a few minutes of singing. I shall not go into the free will versus destiny hoary cliche .. but the composition left me wondering if sound like that can be caused through practice? While practice might help, I feel one needs to go beyond practice and rules and norms and expectations.. Immersion, introspection, sublimination, a willingness to eschew anything extraneous, and ultimate divine intervention is needed to produce a nadam like this.
And yes, now that I have started again, I will post the 5th panchabutam krithi which has been pending for many moons
I heard Visakha Hari singing Sada Enna Hridayadalli on Friday evening.. the Durbari Kaanada composition by Vijaya Vitthala originally made famous by Bhimsen. I have since spent most of the weekend in a fugue state ... interspersed with a frantic delving into Durbari Kanada, Vijaya Vithala, other dasa compositions etc as if there is an answer therein to the longing encapsulated in Visakha's rendering on Friday. Needless to say, there has been a flagrant disregard for all the activities and chores earmarked for the weekend, which one will handle later.
I have heard this composition before. But the effect of Friday's rendering was profound. Visakha seemed to distill all the essential yearning and the ultimate futility of all our endeavours into a few minutes of singing. I shall not go into the free will versus destiny hoary cliche .. but the composition left me wondering if sound like that can be caused through practice? While practice might help, I feel one needs to go beyond practice and rules and norms and expectations.. Immersion, introspection, sublimination, a willingness to eschew anything extraneous, and ultimate divine intervention is needed to produce a nadam like this.
And yes, now that I have started again, I will post the 5th panchabutam krithi which has been pending for many moons
