Janani

I am once again inspired to write my blog after a long time by the divine music of Illayaraja.

 A casual change of TV channels and I came across a devotional song "Janani Janani". Initially this old song didnt catch my interest.And then I realized thats its a song from film "Thai Moogambigai", showing Adi Shankaracharya meditating on kodachadri hill. I listened to the full song...and by the time it neared its end, I had tears streaming down my face.

Music had once again managed to take me to reverie.My heart wept for my own mother and the mother country I had left behind to move into foreign soil. The song and the meaning filled me with such love for the meaning of Janani. I wept for my helplessness. All I could do was to listen to this song over and over again.

I do not know if  goddesses exist in reality. But this song shows them in such beauty and devotion.....we just want them to be real.

When Guru Shankaracharya was blessed with the divine view of Devi Mookambika....he wrote Soundarya Lahiri describing the beauty and divinity of the goddess. He is the champion who saved hinduism.At a time when buddhism was getting stronger in India,Guru Shankaracharya

went about reminding Hindus what a great heritage they belong to. 

Hindu or any other religion, I have realized one thing....Music has no boundaries.If it can move and inspire me to feel for the biggest word of all languages, then I am sure it can move hearts and transform this world.

Link for Janani Janani "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eFjBl_r4jE&feature=related"