![]() If you don’t hear a hum, know that you are gone! Everyone has that sound within. If you want to make sure that you are alive, just close your eyes and ears and try to listen within. After practicing for a long time, you will be able to hear the anahata, or the inner sound. Through repeating the mantra, you gradually develop that sound vibration within. ![]() Mantra repetition itself is a Nada Yoga practice. When Sanskrit shlokas or lyrics are rendered in a popular medium like music ( and not in the original chandas) such deviations happen.Nada Yoga is the Yoga of sound and it includes practices using sound formulas and mantras. That is why we distinguish between Samskrit and Prakrit languages. Nor do the different castes speak any language in the same manner! Such differences are a part of life. Even Kannada is not spoken in the same way in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Tumakuru. Ultimately, it is the way a language undergoes changes in expression from region to region. Of course, MSS was known to take great pains to master the lyrics correctly. In the classical compositions, where Sanskrit words are used, Tamilians tend to pronounce them in a Tamilised form or idiom- which could annoy others. Among male singers, Balamuralikrishna alone could render the lyrics in any language without mutilating the words and without deviating from the Raga. As far as I have been listening to Carnatic music, it was only Mani Krishnaswami who could do justice to Sanskrit lyrics. Listen to the way she renders Bhaja Govindam, perhaps the easiest of Shankara's devotional compositions Notice how the change of Ragas mars the spirit of the Shlokas. It is also because the Sanskrit lyrics do not lend or bend easily to the musical notation, except in the original chandas in which they are composed. MSS was a great artiste, but her Samskrit pronunciation was not great, though correct. Listen to her rendering of Hanuuman Chalisa it is grammatically correct, as taught by Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha but listen to the rendering by Rajan Sajan Mishra or Pandit Jasraj you will notice the immense difference. It would be correct according to the book, but not according to the usage or idiom of native speakers of those languages. R Nanjappa 3y gautham MSS sang songs in many languages, but in languages other than Tamil, her pronunciation was not great. Subbalakshmi died on 11th December 2004, leaving behind her large repertoire of classical, bhajan and film recordings. The money from films went into the magazine Kalki.Ī series of top musicians, notable among them Semmangudi, Musiri, Brinda, composer Papanasam Sivan, and 'bhajan' singer Sidheswari Devi of Banarese, were persuaded to teach Subbalakshmi fresh compositions and styles of singing. After that she gave up films to concentrate solely on music. Her films were quite successful and her final film Meera released both in Hindi and Tamil was a hit. She started acting in films too, in 1938. They had met four years earlier and with his wide connections in the journalistic and political world, he became instrumental in the continued success of her already flourishing career. In 1940 she married Sadasivam, a well known figure in the Madras Congress circle, and a protege of Rajaji. She has given concerts all over the world like the ones at Edinburgh festival and at the United Nations, Carnegie Hall as the the inaugural concert at the festival of India in London in 1982. She started giving concerts when young, first accompanying her mother and then as a solo vocalist. Her first recording was at the age of ten, when she recorded a couple of songs for HMV in Madras. Her first guru Madurai Srinivasa Iyengar died early, but she kept practising on her own, and having a musician mother helped a lot. Her father, a lawyer by profession, was a music lover. Her grandmother Akkammal was a violinist. Subbalakshmi was born in the temple town of Madurai on 16th September 1916, to veena player Shanmukhavadivu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. ![]() Maami) (1916 -2004) was a renowned Carnatic vocalist. Her first guru Madurai Srinivasa Iyengar died early Read Full Bio Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (popularly known as M.S. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (popularly known as M.S.
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