Thursday 20 November 2014

Lakshmi nrusimha laali ...A Telugu devotional Lullaby


Lakshmi-nrush

Dear friendz,
My mother Smt.Puttaparthi Kanakamma was also a noted poetess and lyricist. She wrote 'Gandhiji Mahaprasthanam' (An elegy for Mahatma Gandhi) and 'Ahniveena' (free verse) along with my father Dr.puttaparthi. 
she also wrote many devotional songs on  Lord Srirama, srikrishna, Lakshmi Narasimha, Ganesha, Parvathi, Lakshmidevi and saraswathi goddess. Her ankitha mudra was ' Paramatharaka' a name of Lord Srirama. She has completed the Valmiki Ramayana Sapthahams 108 times. That was by-heart text for her. when she was on death bed even attacked by 'brain hemerage' and lost her complete memory,  she used to recognise the wrong spells (deliberately made) by my father Puttaparthivaru. That was her deep attention towards Valmiki Ramayana. 
Though she selected her ankitha mudra as 'paramataraka' she also wrote some devotional songs with 'astakshar' mudra which was my father's. She used to tell' there is no need of seperated recognition for me 'cause ur father's fame (means Dr.Puttaparthi's) is mine even'. That was her real 'ARDHANAREETVA'.
Friendz dears, here is one of her beautiful lullaby song on Lord Lakshmi Nrisimha sung by my dearest daughter Chi.Sow. Vamsipriya (Padutha Teeyaga - USA fame) which is one of the songs of her album 'Swarnageyarchanam-2'. Pl. listen the above
 song  in complete devotional atmosphere and u will definitely feel the soul of the writer and singer even....





Saturday 15 November 2014



ఆ చూపులు....
దూరమైన అమ్మ ప్రేమను వర్షిస్తాయి...
ఆ చూపులు....
కనుమరుగైన అయ్య అభ్యాస అలౌకికత్వాన్ని గుర్తుకు తెస్తాయి...
ఆ చూపులు....
చేజారిన ప్రణయ మాధురిని వెలికి తీస్తాయి...
ఆ చూపులు....
అర్ఢాంతరంగా ఆగిపోయిన రాగానుభవాన్ని కొనసాగిస్తాయి...
ఆ చూపులు....
సగం దాకానే నిండిన మధురానుభూతి పాత్రను పొంగి పొర్లేలా చేస్తాయి..
ఆ చూపులు....
పరమాత్మ కారుణీమంతమైన దృక్సీమల క్షితిజ సీమల అంచులవరకూ..
నన్ను చేరుస్తాయి....

అందుకే ....
ఆ చూపుల చల్లని నీడ నాకివ్వు..ఎప్పుదూ....
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Wednesday 12 November 2014

Dear friendz...
As we go out in EDISON, we r still observing the decorations of 'Halloween celebrations'.
IWhen ever  see them,  I am recollecting and comparing the scenes of harvest in India.
Methink, halloween' is similer to either 'Dassehra' or 'Sankranthi'.we too in India, give importance to pumpkins. We too pay gratitude to our parted souls of the house.
We too decorate the houses with  'vari kankulu' (rice branches).





I think Halloween descriptions  r similar to that of our 'Dussehra' also. We in India, in Bhadrapada masam, after pournami. consider those fifteen days (krishna pakshm) as 'non-auspecious' days. In those days, any type of traditional pujas are not recommended. 
In Telangana region, those fifteen days are considered as 'saddula batukamma' and the following Amavasya is 'pettara amavasya' and the some communities of society pay their homage to the departed souls on the whole,on that day.
Halloween is also in one way recalling the departed souls and paying homage to them. To get rid of the 'fear' factor, homes and surroundings are decorated with unusual threatening things.
But, I have seen some churches decorated totally with pumpkins.In some houses, pumpkin rows were arranged.


Any how I felt very happy during this season, going around homes along with my grandson Akshaj and asking for 'trick or treat' at every house.  
                                                                                                 


Thursday 6 November 2014

Friendz dears.....
Karthika pournami subhakankshalu.....
I too feel happy to see the cool and beautiful full moon always.
I too feel excited to read the poetry about the full moon.
I too feel wait eagerly to feel the 'amritha tatva' of moon.
Some times the full moon looks like the most beautiful face of a young lady.
Some times I can see the mesmerizing smile of an infant in that.
some times in full moon,I feel the rabbit's face as heard thru the magical child-hood stories.
On the top of it, I feel the soothing touch of the GODLINESS in the cool rays of full moon.





there r so many songs on the MOON-LIGHT in good old folk songs and in films, of course, so many stories depending on moon even. Poets almost in all languages, choose moon as their topic of description without exception.
But scientists proved moon as a big and huge mountain of ASHES. Though   this theory has been witnessed by all of us, still we all love to see moon as a 'AMRUTHA KALASAM' only.
As said in Purusha sooktham, Moon is born from the 'heart of Mahavishnu. 'Chandrama manaso jataha'
i feel the very next ever lasting attraction is the innocent face of infants.




Friendz dears....in the above images,  innocence is the most adorable attraction. sometimes we fell in love with the smile of the infants  that will fill an ever-lasting freshness in our hearts.we thrive a lot to find one again and again. 
But in recent goggling, I felt very depressed, as i read that the smiles on the face of infants is 'cause of the gas they dispose, but not 'cause of the heavenly experience they get.
how cruel..Is n't it friendz? 
We can not deny the innovations, but innovations that ruin the age old and golden images of the most beautiful things of the world are simply 'heart-less' experiments.
'Imagination is always beautiful than truth'. i agree. But...but...how can we digest this simple truth?
any way,, once again happy Karthika Pournami' to all of u friendz.....


Saturday 1 November 2014

Friendz dears,,
Recently while going thru 'Gadhasapthasathi' I stopped near the following 'GADHA' and remembered the 'moon light in harvested fields' as described in this gadha.
Before entering into the actual gadha, I want to focus on the collective work in the villages during agriculture.
One can't live without the help of another in the villages 'cause of their 'inter dependency' policy.
That's how, in villages, all the people call the others as ' akka' 'atta' 'maama' 'bava' 'pinni' 'babayi' 'peddayya' 'peddamma' and so on. They create a bond between themselves though for their own cause, but they like that and do live in those sweet relations. There will not be any artificiality neither in their relations not in their livings.
Once the fields are ripen, they all get together to 'harvest' season and the very next minit, the work will be over.
In 'GADHASAPTHASHATHI' also,village atmosphere is well described in 'Gadhas'.
Pl. look into the following Gadha now.







U r right.....These r all the scenes in the villages in different steps. Gadha Saptha shathi farmer is very happily singing, sitting in his fields in moon light....Why?

       'NippaNNA sassa riddhi sachhanDam gaayi pamarO sarayE
       bali aNava Saali thandula dhavaLa mi angAsu raYIsu'....
This farmer is very very happy to see the 'Saali thandula' (rice grains) in his fields that r as white as the full moon.Though he is on duty of guarding the rice, he unknowingly, started singing happily in the full moon light, forgetting all his difficulties in the process of agriculture.
yes friendz....The responsibility of farmers in any of the countries. When the farmers r hale and healthy, then only we all get our food.This eternal truth also attracted 'Gadha Kaaras' and that's how
GADHA Sapthashati kaara also described his feelings here.
We all should bow our heads before this friends and his 'Samajika sphruha' (social responsibility) which is the word created thousand years ago it self......Is n't it friendz?