TRIBUTE TO M.S. – AN HONEST ATTEMPT

I wanted to write a post as a tribute to the great MS, but I was found very much wanting for words and my best effort was giving a silent tribute. I soon realized that it takes much more competence and a rich source of vocabulary at one’s disposal to pay tributes to a legend like MS. But the ardent fan of MS in me prompted me to make an honest effort to add a drop to the vast ocean of tributes which she would have been showered with.

In Dr. Rajagopalachari’s lecture as preface to the rendition of Bhaja Govindam song by the Legend MS, he describes Knowledge and devotion or in other words Gnana and Bhakthi as synonymous to each other. He tells that Knowledge takes the form of devotion or bhakthi on its maturity and if it does not become so, then such a knowledge is useless. He describes Bhaja Govindam song as a typical example of Knowledge having transformed into bhakthi. I thought it was a preface to the Bhaja Govindam song, but later I realized that it was as much a tribute to MS, the singer too. Her knowledge of music had reached the highest levels of maturity and transformed into devotion or bhakthi in its purest forms. It is this devotion that made her renditions divine and eternal and placed her at a much higher platform than being just an acclaimed Carnatic music singer.