Jagannātha Aṣṭakam Blog by Swamini Atmaprajnananda Saraswati

Jagannātha Aṣṭakam Blog by Swamini Atmaprajnananda Saraswatireminds me  “reportedly”. kalidasa , though earlier was a illiterate moorkha,  he by the grace  of kali sang ''manikya veena mupalaalayantheem ....'' his first stuti on saraswathi reportedly”. kalidasa , though earlier was a illiterate moorkha, he by the grace of kali sang ''manikya veena mupalaalayantheem ....'' his first stuti on saraswathi extempore, 

//not an oral tradition unlike the Vedas (Samhita).// i understand

in classical renderings , lyric is just a thin minimum fabric , and most of the time is'' left '' and music flows in aalaap , taane etc 


a song stays with us more by its enchanting flow of raaga and relevant rasa than by lyric 

in fact lyric gets enriched greatly by them 


yes, lyric helps in recalling the flow o sa re ga ma 's

also we remember certain songs by the tune, and certain tunes by by lyric, 

power of words is limited, hence support of sageeth is taken 

//Whose feet are worshipped by Ramā (Lakṣmī), Śambhu (Śiva), Brahmā, Amarapati (Indra), and Ganeśa, Oh! Lord! Jagannātha!//

yes, no doubt , here, chaithanya has gone deeper in his krishna to the level of jagannatha , jagadguru, the supreme , brahman , before whom/ which all devi devathas ,''yadwaare nikhilaanilimpa parishath sidhim vidhaththenisham srimath sri lasitham jagadguru padam nathaathma thrupthim gathah '' 

for every bhaktha, his istadevatha is the door'passage to go beyond and reach that supreme brahman 
the nam roopa mahimas of istadevatha , here krishna, are just initial steps, an he soon ascended and transcended, and so his astakam has endured decades and centuries , will stay on'//He, who sometimes out of great joy fervently plays His flute on the banks of the Kālindi (Yamunā),//
it's pure sangeeth , ''venu'' gopal's , he did not choose to sing, a lyric'/ sahithya 

thanks, shortly i shall read the blog on sidhartha in odissi
incidentally, we must learn more languages , each language opens the relevant culture'/ethos of that area
//not an oral tradition unlike the Vedas (Samhita).// i understand


in classical rendeings , lyric is just a  thin minimum fabric , and most of the time is''  left '' and music flows in aalaap , taane etc 


a song stays with us more by its enchanting flow of raaga and relevant rasa than by lyric 

in fact lyric gets enriched greatly by them 


yes, lyric helps in recalling the flow o sa re ga ma 's

also we remember certain songs by the tune, and certain tunes by  by lyric, 

power of words is limited, hence support of sageeth is taken 

//Whose feet are worshipped by Ramā (Lakṣmī), Śambhu (Śiva), Brahmā, Amarapati (Indra), and Ganeśa, Oh! Lord! Jagannātha!//

yes, no doubt , here, chaithanya has gone deeper in his krishna to the level of jagannatha , jagadguru, the supreme , brahman , before whom/ which   all devi devathas ,''yadwaare nikhilaanilimpa parishath sidhim vidhaththenisham srimath sri lasitham jagadguru padam nathaathma thrupthim gathah ''  

for every bhaktha, his istadevatha is the door'passage to go beyond and reach that supreme brahman 
the nam roopa mahimas of istadevatha , here krishna, are just initial steps,  an he soon ascended and transcended, and so his astakam  has endured decades and centuries , will stay on