Endaro Mahaanubhavulu Back Ground

Thyagaraja began his musical training under Sonti Venkataramanayya, a noted music scholar, at an early age. He regarded music as a way to experience God's love. His objective while practising music was purely devotional, as opposed to focusing on the technicalities of classical music. He also showed a flair for composing music, and, in his teens, composed his first song Namo Namo Raghavayya in the Desika Todi ragam, and inscribed it on the walls of the house. 

A few years later, Sonti Venkataramanayya invited Thyagaraja to perform at his house in Thanjavur. On that occasion, Thyagaraja sang Endaro Mahaanubhavulu, the fifth of the Pancharatna Krithis.

Family Units in a Film on Occasion of Tyagaraja Utsavam

Archetypal Power of Tyagaraja's Life and Lyrics

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Sanyas - Renounced Order of Life

Legend has also embellished the story of his last days on earth. The kritis of this period have reference to a mood of calm and blissful resignation to the Divine Will.  'Vidajaladhura'  (Janaranjani), mirrors such a mood, and it seems likely that allusions in such kritis, not understood in their delicacy and true import, gave rise to the accounts that Sri Rama ordained a further birth for his devotee, or that under the divine mandate Tyagaraja assumed the ochre robes of Sanyasa, by this re-birth both fulfilling the words of Sri Rama; and destroying further transmigration. Tyagaraja was initiated into Sanyasa before he died, in accordance with a tradition and practice largely in vogue at that period. A rare printed biography of the master in Tamil by a disciple of the Sishya Parampara informs us that he assumed the appropriate name of 'Nadha Brahmananda', as a Sanyasi.He Left thisWorl on Vaikunta Ekadasi.

Group Kritis

Nannu paalimpa - BackGround

His disciple WalajapeT Tai Vekataramana Bhaagavatar brought a picture of Raama, walking all the way from WalajapeTTai to Tiruvaiyaar. Tyagaraaja sang "Nannu paalimpa," (You Brought Me Up)overwhelmed by this act.

Sage Haridas

Once a sage named Haridas asked him to recite the name of Raama 960 million times. which he also faithfully carried out in 21 years with rigorous chanting of 1,25,000 Namas every day.

After doing so, Tyaagaraaja went to offer his prayer when he heard a knock on his door. Raama, Seeta, and Hanumaan were entering his prayer room and he was blessed to see the coronation of Raama. Moved with wonder and devotion, he sang "Baalakanagamaya" (the anupallavi of the kritis "Ela nee dayaraadhu" and "Bhavanuta").

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