The classical music across board is the highest form
of religion. It has the subtle trick to keep consciousness alive even in
turbulent times of livelihood. To voyage into the world of classical music and
to realise the soul is a definite path to salvation. The world today is crumbled
with myriad troubles in all sphere of life. The growing menace of pandemic is
throwing us to a world of uncertainties which never been perceived. What is the
ultimate? - A billion dollar query of million minds.
Now what could be a best healing touch to livelihood?
All ancient religious scriptures always has been very focal to the inner
journey of mind and unveiled the way how we can control the outer world from
within. Apparently it seems unrealistic but out of our accord when we stay at
comfort everything around us seems so beautiful and pleasant. I think all
scriptures very meditatively have decoded the science behind ‘the comfort’, the
tranquil part of our attitude towards life. Music here plays a momentous role
to keep us alive in consciousness.
The raga
Bhairavi which mostly being known as queen of all ragas and technically a Hindustani classical heptatonic (Sampurna) Raga of Bhairavi thaat is all beyond attributed to primordial
mother goddess, the companion of Tripurantak
Bhairava according to Puranas and Tantras and also called as Subhankari, who does auspicious deeds to
her children. Playing and listening to the raga is a prayer to the divine which
surely will heal us in this critical injecture of life.
When its raga
Bhairavi I don’t like to lose the chance to share tales of Maihar, the home to
one of 52 Shakti Peethams, and Baba
Allauddin Khan, the Sarod player, multi-instrumentalist, a renowned composer of
20th century in Indian classical music and above all the founder of
Maihar gharana often said as Maihar-Senia gharana as he learnt music under the
tutelage of Wajir Khan of Senia gharana. Maihar’s Trikuta Mountain is also an
abode of Sarada Mai where he used to visit every dawn to pay his homage. Tale
has it that during one early dawn when Baba Allauddin Khan was playing raga
Bhairavi mother goddess descended and dance.
The raga has its speciality in the gharana and
on later so many followers including legends Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pt Nikhil
Banerjee, Annapurna Devi, Pt Ravi Shankar have chanted the mantra of Bhairavi
and lured the world. My Guruji Pt Prosenjit Sengupta, one of their prominent
successors in recent time, has paid homage to mother goddess in a monkish solitude.
Let us enjoy and feel the divine within.
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