February 7_RJ
Padmaja Sastri recently mentioned how her daughter won full marks in physical education exam by perfectly executing two simple yoga posts, where as her daughter's class mates took harder to execute yoga positions, didn't execute them well and hence got lesser marks.
The statement got me thinking. What is it about the difficult activities in life that prevents people from executing them well ? Most of the time, i believe it is because people don't take the simple acts aka the beginner's steps seriously. They jump to the more difficult activities directly because they think by excelling in complicated tasks they can show his/her mastery over the subject. Nothing can be farther from truth.
Over a period of time, i have understood that it is more difficult to be good or close to perfection in the day to day activities of life or the beginners steps in any chosen field. Here you don't have any where to hide and performance is all that counts. And the mind set that gets one to be good at simple tasks of life also helps them master the more difficult steps .
So today, if i want to know how good a cook is, i will ask them to make me a dal chawal ( lentil and rice) instead of an elaborate biriyani. Since i believe that their mastery of cooking will come out easily in the way they handle a simple dish.
Today's song in MWC, 'eppaDi paaDinarO' set in the ragaam karnaataka devagandhaari is one such example of a maestro showing her complete command through a simple tamil song. while many people have sung this one, i chose this particular rendition and singer for the simplicity, sincerity and the divine feeling the singer brings to the song.
The song is short at just 6 minutes and 6 seconds and i request the listeners to focus on the singing from 3.40. The sheer brilliance at display is just a reminder of their virtuosity that they could make a simple song, unforgettable.
http://youtu.be/54yIqReUGl4
The lyrics and meaning of the song are given here, for those of you who don't understand tamil -http://www.karnatik.com/c1265.shtml. But the way D K Pattammal makes you feel, you really don't need that :-)
Padmaja Sastri recently mentioned how her daughter won full marks in physical education exam by perfectly executing two simple yoga posts, where as her daughter's class mates took harder to execute yoga positions, didn't execute them well and hence got lesser marks.
The statement got me thinking. What is it about the difficult activities in life that prevents people from executing them well ? Most of the time, i believe it is because people don't take the simple acts aka the beginner's steps seriously. They jump to the more difficult activities directly because they think by excelling in complicated tasks they can show his/her mastery over the subject. Nothing can be farther from truth.
Over a period of time, i have understood that it is more difficult to be good or close to perfection in the day to day activities of life or the beginners steps in any chosen field. Here you don't have any where to hide and performance is all that counts. And the mind set that gets one to be good at simple tasks of life also helps them master the more difficult steps .
So today, if i want to know how good a cook is, i will ask them to make me a dal chawal ( lentil and rice) instead of an elaborate biriyani. Since i believe that their mastery of cooking will come out easily in the way they handle a simple dish.
Today's song in MWC, 'eppaDi paaDinarO' set in the ragaam karnaataka devagandhaari is one such example of a maestro showing her complete command through a simple tamil song. while many people have sung this one, i chose this particular rendition and singer for the simplicity, sincerity and the divine feeling the singer brings to the song.
The song is short at just 6 minutes and 6 seconds and i request the listeners to focus on the singing from 3.40. The sheer brilliance at display is just a reminder of their virtuosity that they could make a simple song, unforgettable.
http://youtu.be/54yIqReUGl4
The lyrics and meaning of the song are given here, for those of you who don't understand tamil -http://www.karnatik.com/c1265.shtml. But the way D K Pattammal makes you feel, you really don't need that :-)
UD:
ReplyDeleteThoughtful write up RJ. Beautiful song by DKP. One more thing in this dong i like is u can byheart the names of Adiyaars. "Kaadalinaal urugi" phrase and "thanith thamizh solinaal" phrase are awesome. I also wonder akways "karunaik kadal perugi"- why by adiyaar, shud it not be for adiyaar - a different usage probably. Lovely rendition.
RJ:
Deletein the context of the song, i think the usage of 'karunaik kadal perugi' makes sense as the poet wants to sing like the adiyars. And adiyars being a fountain of karunai is a given because without that one can't compose like that. btw, this song is a special - read this blog to understand why https://sujamusic.wordpress.com/suddhananda-bharati/