enthamuddo……..
‘like how medicine heals the body, music heals the soul’
this is a song in bindhu malini raagam composed many thousands of years ago by thyagaraja
Enta muddO? Enta sugasO?
Evarilla varNimpa tagunE?
Enta vAralaina gAni
kAntacintAkrAntulai nAru
atta mIda kanu lAsaku dAsulai
satta bhAgavata vEsu lairi
dutta pAla ruci dEliyu sAmyamE
dhurINuDau tyAgarAjanutuDu
Meaning:
What beauty! What grandeur! Who has the capability to describe?
Whoever it may be, all men are ever sunk in lustful thoughts!
Putting on the garb of a Bhagavata they still lust after their mothers in law. This is like the ladle in a vessel knowing the taste of milk. O object of the detached Tyagaraja’s worship (what beauty!)
Note:
Tyagaraja, according to CR Srinivasa Iyengar refers to a neighbouring Bhagavata who was having an incestuous relationship with his own mother in law, in this song. However it may simply be an observation of goings on around him, when men of advanced age married young girls and thereby acquired mothers in law who were of their own age.
Tyagaraja who mainly writes songs on his devotion to god has written such rare songs of daily happening arnd him which he is strongly against……i cried listening to this song coz its such a fantastic melody go to this link n hope u will enjoy the song as much as me…...(http://www.musicindiaonline.com/ and search for enthamuddo n choose the version sung by bombay jayashree…in case u r wondering who is she….she is the one who sand vaseegara n suttum vizhi)
wt wld i do if there were no music…..?music is my best fren ….always there to congratulate n applaud my highs and also embrace n lend a shoulder at the rock bottoms…..thank u god for allowing music to be part of all out lives…..without which the world wld have stop going in rounds …….
