What Is The Significance Of Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Aradhana Mahotsava?

What Is The Significance Of Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Aradhana Mahotsav? Sri Thyagabrahma Mahotsava Sabha, Thiruvaiyaru has been conducting Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Aradhana Mahotsava Festival for decades in the divine memory of great saint and composer Sri Thyagaraja. Top classical musicians performs every day during the five-day festival.

 

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Context

 

The 176th Aradhana of the great Saint and Composer Sri Thyagaraja falls on 11th January 2023 Wednesday. The Festival Commences on 6th January 2023 and continues up to 11th January 2023.

 

About Saint Thyagarajar

 

• Thyagaraja was the greatest among the music composers of South India and one of the musical prodigies of all time.
• He was the father of modern Carnatic music.
• His Keerthanas about gods are of delicate spirituality, full of melodic beauty and in the highest sense artistic.
• In his childhood itself, he was remarkable for his liking and affection for music.
• He composed his first song at the age of 13. Soon he reached the supercilious summit of the musical fame and composed the grandest songs ever written and two music plays of unequalled beauty.
• He spent most of his time doing pooja and singing to the idols of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita, and thus his compositions were inspired and infused with Rama bhakthi.
• Aware of his approaching end, he took Sanyasa. On the 10th day of his Sanyasa, he merged with eternity in 1847.

 

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What Is The Significance Of Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Aradhana Mahotsav?

 

Month of celebration

Every year this remarkable festival falls in the month of January in Thiruvaiyaru.

Speciality

• Aradhana means to offer.Tyagaraja Aradhana is an annual Carnatic music festival usually held once in a year during January and February in Thiruvaiyaru, the birth place of the great saint Tyagarajar.
• Many experts of Carnatic music gather here to perform music, and is watched by millions of fervent fans of Indian classical music.
• To pay a common homage to the saint, Five pancharatna keethanas are selected and sung by all the musicians.
• As a mark of respect and thanksgiving to the saint, Carnatic musicians from all over the world get together and pay their reverence to the Saint by singing the Pancharatna kritis on the Pushya Bahula Panchami – the day when he attained Samadhi. This is an integral feature of the Aradhana.

Did You Know? Tyagaraja is not the only music-related personality who has such an aradhana. Narayana Tirtha’s is far older and, like Tyagaraja’s, happens at multiple locations. Sadasiva Brahmendral too has an Aradhana, at Nerur. In the bhajana tradition, an aradhana is done for Bodhendra Swamigal each year at Govindapuram. These observances are common to all those who took to a life of renunciation. Since Tyagaraja too had become a sanyasi in the last days of his life, it qualified him for this annual observance.

 

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