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rAga sudhA

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rAga sudhA rasa pAnamu jEsi raJjillavE¹ O manasA²
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O My Mind! Exult by drinking the nectarine juice of music.
yAga yOga tyAga bhOga phalamosaGgE (rAga)
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[Exult … music] which bestows all the benefits that accrue through Vedic sacrifices, the practice of Yoga, renunciation and worldly enjoyments.
sadAziva mayamagu nAdOGkAra swara
vidulu jIvanmuktulani tyAgarAju teliyu (rAga)
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Thyagaraja knows that those well-versed in the sapta svara, emanating from Pranava Nada, which is of the nature of the Supreme Lord, are indeed the living-liberated.
  • 1 raJjillavE - rAjillavE : rAjillu - means ‘to shine forth’; ‘raJjillu ’ means ‘to delight’ and also ‘to shine’. As ‘delight’ is the appropriate word, ‘raJjillavE has been adopted.
  • 2 O manasA – manasA

  • For some interesting information on ‘Nada Yoga’, [[http://www.frankperry.co.uk/nada_yoga.htm Nada Yoga]]

  • yAga – yajJA as described in Srimad BhagavadgIta are – dravya yajJA, tapOyajJA, yOga yajJA, svAdhyAya yajJA

  • yOga - aSTAGga yOga - yama, niyama, Asana, prANAyAma, pratyAhAra, dhAraNA, dhyAna, samAdhi . Four different methods of Yoga are described in Srimad Bhagavat Gita - sAMkhya (jnAna), karma, rAja, bhakti .

  • tyAga – renunciation is described as under in Srimad Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 18 -

  • kAmyAnAM karmaNAM nyAsaM saMnyAsaM kavayO vidu: | sarvakarma phalatyAgaM prAhustyAgaM vicakSaNA: || 2 ||

  • “The renunciation of Kamya actions (which are accompanied with a desire for fruits), the sages understand as Sanyasa; the wise declare the abandonment of the fruit of all works as Thyaga.” (Translation by Swami Swarupananda)

  • sadAziva – is not same as the Siva of Trinity – Brahma, Vishnu, Siva. By this word, Sri Thyagaraja means the brahman - parabrahman – paramAtmA. praNava - OM - is the name of the brahman. The following Patanjali Yoga Sutra is relevant –

  • tasya vAcaka: praNava: || I.27) || *“The word which express Him is OM.” (Translation by Swami Prabhavananda)

  • Sri Thyagaraja states that those well-versed (vidulu ) in this nAdOMkAra , which is the state of parabrahman , are liberated while still alive – jIvan mukta (jIvan muktulu ). Though Sri Thyagaraja has not made any mention of Bhakti aspect here, this is implied because as he has earlier stated that mere knowledge of music devoid of Bhakti will not lead one to the right path of Self-realization - nAdOMkAraM - the state of prabrahman – sadAziva (kRti ‘saMgIta jnAnamu’ - saMgIta jnAnamu bhakti vinA sanmArgamu galadE ). What Sri Thyagaraja refers here as ‘vidulu ’ means those who perform ‘nAdOpAsana ’. Please also refer to kRtis ‘mOkSamu galadA ’ and ‘nAdOpAsanacE ’ also.

Updated on 2024-11-26
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