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Dear Friends,

Recently updated on (http://saptharathnas.blogspot.com).This write up
is based on Brahmsri TS BAlakrishna sAstrigals upanyAsam

srI:

jai sathguru sWAmina:
jAnakI kAntha smaranam, jai jai rAma rAmA.

The 59th dasakam in the SrinArayaneeyam composed by the great devotee
of guruvAyoorappan,srinArAyana bhattathiri goes like this

rAgasthAvajyAyathey hi swabhAvAth mOkshOpaya: yatratha syAnnavAsyAth
thAsam tvEkam tadvayam labdhamAsIth bhAgyam bhAgyam pAhi mAm mArutheshA ||

He says that all the gOpikA sthrees went to krishna bhagavan only with
intense love and desire to be with him. They left everything else
behind. Friends, relatives, wealth ,everything behind.
This is rAgA in its highest form. Thinking bhagwan as ones bharthA
(husband)and this bhAvam is refered to as nAyakA- nAyakI bhAvam. This
kind of intense desire towards bhagawan gives jnAnam and
mOksham.(mOkshOpAya) whereas
the desire for anything else gives only bhandham (attachment) and
pApam (sin).

Only very few mahAthmAS have shown this kind of highest for of bhakthi
bhAva. SRi nammAzhvAr, Sri AndAL, Sri RAmAnujAchArya are some of the
mahAns in the vaishnava sampradAya who enjoyed this kind of sAThvikA
nAyaka- nAyaki bhAvam. A pathivrathA (a chaste and loyal wife) will
always think about her husband when separated even while performing
the daily chores. Just like that, these mahAns performed all the
karmAs but were always immersed in thoughts about bhagwAn.

Just like that sathguru has melted his ishtanAthan, sriRAmachandran
with hundreds of krithis in the nAyaki bhAvam. Not only that, he has
lived along with sreeRAman and has enjoyed him as koThanda Raman ,
kalyAna RAman, pattAbhi RAman,bAlya rAman, vEEra rAGhavan,
sharanAgatha vathsalan and so on. When he enjoyed him so and so, all
the bhAvam and the RAgam came out as beautiful krithis shining
brilliantly like the rays of the morning sun.

Here, in this post, we are going to enjoy one such moving and highly
enjoyable krithi in reethigowla rAgA , which i heard and learnt from
brahmsri TS bAlakrishna sAstrigals upanyAsm in tamil.

The krithi starts with a special gift for sreerAmachandran.

pallavi:

rAGA rathna mAlikache ranjillunata hari shatha (rAGa)

Sathguru says he is offering rathna mALikAS to sree rAmachandran.
Being very poor, how can he afford rathnA mAlAs? Not just one rathna
mALA, but hundreds of them. Also, there are only 9 rathnaS right?
(navarathnAs).
Stop wondering! He himself says what are those rathnAS. Shatha rAga
rathna mAlikachE i.e 100s of rAgAs. Each rAgam is a rathnamAlika to
sree rAmachandran.One doesn't need to have money to offer these
garlands but sathbakthi and sangItha jnAnam.

rAgam also mean intense love for bhagawAn like those of the gOpikA
sthrees. Thus, he is offering hundreds of rAGa rathna mAlikAs
representing 100s of bhAva rAgAs. Thus singing sathguru's krithis
without those bhAva rAgAs is like flowers decorating a dead corpse.
Both rAGam(musical sound) and anurAgam (desire to be with god) should
be present. rAga lakshana can be obtained by constant practise but
anurAgam can not be obtained so. anurAgam can easily be obtained
through the anugrahAs of utthamAs like sathguru thyAGabrhmam. Let is
move further in the krithi.

When one offers us something, we should thank him for that and we
should feel happy that he has given us something. It can even be a
very small thing. bhagAvan showed this in rAma avathARa when he tasted
the fruits offfered by old shabari and in krishna avathARa when he
partook food with vidhuran. Just like that, we should feel happy and
content when someone offers us something. Sathguru says that his
ishtanAthan will listen to his krithis with joy. (ranjillunata)

The anupallavi goes like this

bAga sEvinchi sakalabAgyamandu dAmu rArE.

He invites us all to his little house in thiruvaiyARu to enjoy the
darshanam of sreerAmachandran adorning the rathna mAlikAs. More
importantly and rightly, he asks us to listen, sing and enjoy those
krithis, which adorn his rAGhavan. He asks us to enjoy those krithis,
which gave joy to him and to sreeRAman. Somebody might ask, sir. why
should i do that? Let us see what our sathguru says.

sakalabAgyamandu dAmu rARE. He says that one will be blessed with
everything. (sakala bhAgyamandu ). Another person is asking already,
athu eppadi avar appadi sollalAm , appadi enna thAn irukku andha
krithigalil ( what is there after all in his krithis so that one can
be blessed with everything). Brahmasri TS BAlakrishna sAstrigal says
in his upanyAsam that some of his gurus had the perception that
"thyAGaiyer krithis la appadi enna irukku. rAma enna kaapAthu, avana
kApathiniyey, athey madhiri ennaiyum kApAthu, deekkshithavAL thaan
neraiya sollirkAr ( what is there in his krithis, RAma,please save me,
you saved gajEndrA on that day, just like that save me too.Only
deekshithar has told us lot of things). Let us see sathgurus answer in
the charnam, which goes like

naigama sath-SAshthra purAna sahithamada

He gives a foreword on his krithis , "vEdam,shat-Sastram, purAnam,
Aagamam " everything is present in his krithis. He doesn't have to
tell us. It is there but we are not digging those things. We are
digging only " neravals, swarams, rAgAlApanA,tAnam pallavis et al". We
quickly sing the keerthanam and rush to the swaram part so that we can
display our manOdhArmic skills and our proficiency in music, which we
got only through bhagawath and bhAgawatha katAkshams not just because
we did hours of sAdhakam. We seldom realize that the saptha swarAs
emerge from pranava nAdham . By getting closer to the pranava
nAdham,we also gain mastery over the saptha swarAS. More importantly,
we get sathbhakthi and are directed in sanmArgA. Thus, the main
ingredients of sathgurus krithis are the sArAms of those veDAs and
upanishads and the rAGAs are just spices that add flavour to the
truths that are bitter to an average samsArin. Just like a mother who
feeds her child with healthy but bitter food by mixing it along with
something that the child likes and by uttering sweet words, our
sathguru feeds us those krithis rich in the true values of life, which
are bitter to an average samsArin by giving it rAGam and anurAGam. Let
us continue with the charnam

yOgivarulu Anadhamu nondhE sanmArgamata

We are all bOGis. He says that ,yOgis, who have sacrificed everything
will forget themselves and enjoy these krithis.

bhAGavathOthamulu koodi pAdE keerthanmulata

These krithis are sung in chorus by sathbhAgawathAs just like the
group rendition of pancharathnams. When such a group renders his
krithis, the joy we get knows no bound right?

thyAgarAju kadathEra thARakamani chEsina

Why did he sing those krithis? to please us or his contemporaries? or
to impress his contemporaries and to get name and fame? Not at all. He
himself says, "ThyAgarAju kadathEra thARakamani chEsina" . For getting
his ishtanAthans krupai to get closer to him and to attain vaikunthA(
kadaithEra).

What a beautiful krithi? One has to enjoy the taste of his krithis
word by word. Not just stick to the notes and do sAthakam to attain
musical harmony,melody and perfection.

This article is 90% based on Brahmasri TS BAlakrishna sAstrigals
upanyASam and I have added my own comments occasionally. If there are
mistakes in this write- up, it is only beacause of my ignorance and
all credits go to Sathguru and Brahmasri.
I have attempted to render the krithi, based on what i heard from the
upanyAsam. I am recording and sharing the audo just to share my
anubhavams. If you don't like it, sreerAman will listen to it anyway.
You may download it here.

Having known the greatness of sathgurus krithis from himself , i will
most likely start posting on the pancharathnams one by one from the
next post.

with sathguru dhivya kamala pAdha smaranams,
adiyEn
thyAgayya and rAmAnuja dAsan.
sarvam seethArAmachandrARpanamasthu.



 

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