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Songs of Chidambaram
Assa - EAN : 9782889220601
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EAN : 9782889220601
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- EAN13 : 9782889220601
- Réf. éditeur : 164
- Editeur : Assa
- Date Parution : 11 mai 2021
- Disponibilite : Disponible
- Barème de remise : NS
- Nombre de pages : 145
- Format : H:210 mm L:148 mm E:13 mm
- Poids : 230gr
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Résumé :
Songs of Chidambaram
We submit this Songs (Chidambaram Geetham) at the feet of the Lord of Chidambaram. These songs were composed by Kavi Yogi Shuddhananda Bharati for his own meditation and worship. Today, Tamil Nadu is celebrating the magnificence of these compositions: these songs are being presented in many music concerts and played on the radio and concerts.
Some words about the meaning of Chidambaram. Chidambaram (Tillai) is one of the most ancient and most celebrated shrines in India, located in Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu. It is of great religious as well as historic and cultural significance. Chidambaram is associated with Lord Nataraja or Shiva in his “Ananda Tandava” pose (the cosmic dance of bliss) in the cosmic Golden Hall and the Hall of Consciousness (‘Chit Sa-bha’). Lord Shiva is worshipped here in the “formless form” of the Chidambara Rahasyam, and the temple is known for its Akasha Lingam (Sky Lingam), an embodiment of Shiva as formless space. This is one of the few temples where Shiva and Vishnu are enshrined under one roof. Chidambaram is also known as Tillai Ambalam.
Bowing to the wishes of the eminent classical Tamil expert and patron of the Tamil music movement, the Raja of Chettinad Dr. Sir Annamalai Chettiar, Swami had sent these compositions to Annamalai University. The Raja of Chettinad expressed his appreciation of these songs to the university faculty, listened to musicians singing these compositions and conveyed his happiness and encouragement to Swami in several letters. We are eternally grateful for his love and enthusiasm extended for the publication of this book!
We express our gratitude to the Registrar of Annamalai University Sri N. Viswanatha Iyer M.A., L.T., who has contributed greatly to propagate these songs with the help of many eminent musicians. The photographs of the holy temple of Chidambaram and the image of Lord Nataraja included at the beginning of this book are newly taken and sent to us with the kind consent of the Raja of Chettinad upon our request; we express our gratitude to his magnanimity.
The Lord Nataraja worshipped by him is the benevolent God worthy of worship by all religions; everyone’s heart is Thillai; the beloved light dancing there is Nataraja. Read its explanation in the book “Nataraja Upasanai”. All the secrets perceived by sages skilled in the Vedas and the Agamas, all the arts including dance, music and beauty, all the significance of Vedanta and Siddhanta and all the practices to attain pure, true enlightenment shine bright in Nataraja’s form. He who is endowed with the arm that bestows grace, the hand that nurtures the divine flame, the hand that shows the sacred feet, the Vedic hand that beats the drum to create music, the holy raised foot offering refuge to devotees, the benign divine face filled with the glow of blissful light our hearts melt with love thinking about our Father and Mother that is Lord Nataraja.
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Biographie :
Presentation of Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati 11th May 1897 – 7th March 1990
The wise one to the cosmic age.
Although more than 90 years old, in his school in the south of India, Kavi Yogi Maharishi (great divine visionary, wise poet), Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati worked like a young man of twenty. When he was asked his age, he answered: “My age is Courage!”
The Yogi wrote several hundred works in English, French, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Sanskrit: five thousand songs, and fifteen hundred poems in French. The magnum opus of the man conscious of the presence of God in him, Bharata Shakti, (in 50,000 verses) described his ideal: only One Humanity living in communion with only One God in a transformed world! Bharata Shakti is a monumental and unique work. The Yogi depicts the essence of all the religions, of all the prophets and saints, all the approaches of Yoga and all the cultures on an allegorical table. It is a book for any age which all spiritual researchers and all nations should read and meditate on. This work was completed and appreciated by Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Annie Besant, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw and so many others. It installs the author among the great, men such as Dante, Homer, Racine, Shakespeare, Vyasa, and Valmiki.
Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is one of the greatest Tamil poet, having translated into this language: Gita, Upanishads, Veda, the Bible, the Koran, Avesta, the Buddha-Dhamma-Sangha and Tattvartha Sutra, the life and teachings of Lao-Tseu and Confucius. From their original languages, he also translated into Tamil The Divine Comedy of Dante, the tragedies of Racine, the comedies of Molière, the dramas of Corneille, Shakespeare, Goethe and the novels of Anatole France, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and others.
Shuddhananda’s works are innumerable. Malcolm Macdonald, who chaired the Congress on the Unity of the Conscience in Singapore, said in his short speech about him: “He is such a remarkable man, having such a diversity of raised gifts, that it is difficult to know where to start and where to finish when one speaks about Kavi Yogi Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati. Few men have achieved as many things in only one human life.” His name appears moreover in the Encyclopaedia of the World’s Great Men, which says: “Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of literary works of varied styles: works epic and lyric, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral, romance, novels, biographies, commentaries on famous works and texts. Bharata Shakti is his magnum opus.” He had a presentiment that he would receive the Nobel Prize for Peace or for Literature but did not live to see it. His commitment is summarized in his book celebrating his life, “Experiences of a Pilgrim Soul (Expérience d’une Âme de Pèlerin)”.
God I loved and lived in him,
Making His commandment
Leave to Man his entire talents
This is my will! Dr. Shuddhanananda Bharati
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