M S Subbulakshmi - Nidhichaala Sukhama - Kalyani - Tyagaraja Swami

This is a recording of Smt M.S.Subbulakshmi's recital at the Tyagaraja Aradhana Celebrations in Thiruvaiyaaru on 7th January, 1980. She was accompanied by:
Smt Radha Viswanathan - Vocal Support
Sri Kandadevi S.Azhagiriswami - Violin
Sri T.K.Murthy - Mridangam
Sri V.Nagarajan - Kanjira
Sri T.H.Vinayakaram - Ghatam
Substance of song:
Is (possessing) wealth a greater pleasure, or is service in Rama's presence a greater pleasure? Answer me truthfully, O mind! Are curds, butter and milk more tasty? Or, is the nectarine essence of the meditation on and bhajana of Dasharatha's son more tasty? Is a bath of self-control and tranquility in the Ganga more comforting? Or, is a bath in the well of evil sense-objects more comforting? Is extolling of mere human beings, fettered in egotism more comforting? Or, is singing on the pure-minded Lord, praised by Tyagaraja, more comforting?

[@Geetha4170]

MS AMMA is a living evergreen legend. Each n every song is so blissful with deepest devotion n Bhakti 🙏🙏🙏🙏 I wanted to seriously take MS AMMA’s blessings along with my daughter but unfortunately it could not happen. Miss her v. v much

[@seshagiriraomadiraju4448]

I have seen Lord Sri Rama through ears.

[@srikrishnakhandrika6494]

Yes, You are very true. That is BHakthi at its pinnacle.

[@vasudevancv8470]

Kalyani always flows gently, like a cool breeze, and evokes an inexplicable feeling of Happiness & Bliss all around the ambience as also in our inner self.

[@ravinuvvula354]

M S SUBBAMMA Real 'AMMA Of INDIA' and also 'IDEAL WOMAN' Of INDIA.

[@subrahmanyammlallampalli4854]

This is high time. It is our duty to inculcate our traditional music and art forms to our off springs to uplift our rich heritage to benefit the human race on the earth.

[@sriharimathura5371]

What a pure voice , enna gnanam!!!

[@tadurymadhavarao748]

A veritable treasure of music blended with a heightened devotion! M.S lives on!

[@ramansankaralingam4775]

Nidhi sala sukama divine is better than money what a divine saint Lord thiagaraja swamigal

[@mangalashankaran5378]

Only MS Amma can sing this kirtana of Saint Thiyagaraja with such a devotion.Tears fow down .THANK YOU .for down loading this song

[@geethakailasanathan6553]

Only MS Amma can sing this kirtana of Saint Thiyagaraja with such a devotion.Tears fow down .THANK YOU .for down loading this song. Thanks to the technology that the song rendered by MS Amma 35 years ago one hear at home. Thank you for downloading this song.

[@gbarjun]

yearning to live like ms amma

[@smajety]

Very well articulated, the feeling. It takes a rasika to enjoy the higher aspects of life - divine music like this for one. Thunderbolt for 27 mins ! You brought a smile on my lips this early in the morning !

[@vedagiri41]

REALLY SHE is godess maa veenaa-paani.

[@rsptg-boyschittedunellore3687]

I feel lord rama chosen thyagaraja to write some kruthis through the voice of MS

[@venkatrangaraju2435]

Money is nothing before RAMA'S worship.song fullof principles.

[@meghashyamcafe817]

Wonderful Keertans and bhajans.

[@050719782008]

When u fill tension, listen M S Subbulakshmi...

[@smajety]

We miss her but these recordings are a solace. Thanks to the uploader ! This is blissful music.

[@seshashayitadimari5734]

Gandharvas reborn to spread Bhakti movement.The most easy way to Bhakti is to listen to devotional music and shed tears.

[@geethanjalibalaji5232]

well said

[@samaganam]

That Kanjira was too superb.It added so much of richness to the already superb song.What a song?Now I want to write an essay about it.What an alapana,dear god,it felt like a thunderbolt that struck continuously for 27 minutes.Felt like a channel opened up between heavens and earth,I did not think I will open my eyes again.yes Nidhi,dadhi,navaneetha,ksheeramulu, nothing as sweet as rama's bhajana sudha rasam.And yes tyagaraja's kriti gives utmost happiness,only if ms amma sings it.

[@vivekanandaswami7911]

excellent devotional song

[@bapswamy3207]

She is really a self liberated soul.One of the greatest women of India.

[@nagumanian4306]

I always like this kalyani ragam, perticlurly very elaborate raga alabanai.

[@sujathamohan9530]

awesome. my pranams to a great soul. only a great soul can sing such divine music.

[@dvarvind]

@samaganam VERY TRUE.......ANOTHER AS USUAL GEM FROM MS AMMA..........SHE IS TYAGARAJA IN WOMEN FORM..............

[@umakrishnan7504]

devine voice of Amma!!😇🌺

[@subramanianlv]

This brings tears in sheer respect of Lord;s name delivered out of heart and soul.

[@hariprajvalt]

Very Beautiful sng...

[@brijeshsharma7342]

What a brilliant kalyani raag alapana and an equally magnificent rendition of an ethereal kriti. I have also had the good fortune of listening to at least 2 more kritis in kalyani by m s amma and Radha amma, needu charana pankaja and bhaja re te chitta. The rendition of both these kritis was mesmerizing to say the least. Among the later crop of musicians no has even come anywhere near her !!!!

[@AnandTRRao]

Listened to the rendering of this fantastic Kriti by Late MS Amma. Every it stimulates a fresh thought/a new dimension about the composition itself.Feel I am blessed.

[@pkanniyappan]

ஆஹா!! என்ன ஒரு விஸ்தாரமான ஆலாபனை!!! எங்களை எல்லாம் எங்கேயோ கொண்டு போய் விட்டீர்கள் அம்மா!! இந்த வயலின் MSG-யாக இருந்திருந்தால் இன்னுமே சோபித்திருக்குமோ என்னவோ! இதுவும் நன்றாகத்தான் உள்ளது!!!! நிச்சயம் நங்கள் பாக்யசாலிகளே!!! கொடுத்து வைத்தவர்கள் !!!!! வாழ்நாள் பூராவும் கேட்டுக் கொண்டே இருக்கலாம் போல் உள்ளது.

[@vgsrinivasan]

A GREAT DIVINE SONG!!

[@krishnaswamytamma4268]

NIJAM. ONLY RAMA NAMAMRUTAM TIPI

[@sathyavanimaiya959]

Universal mom 😍🥰😂😊🤣

[@pushpalatha-ei8mi]

Beautiful melodious song ragam kalyani

[@samaganam]

Please listen to Bhajare chitta by Smt Radha viswanathan.Its equally melodious.

[@prabhukaza]

Confronted with lots of jewellary etc by King Sambhoji, Saint tyagaraja questions himself about the futility of wordly possessions before rejecting them outright. It is practical vedanta at its height.

[@plliganesh3846]

Amma 🙏💐💐💐🙏amma

[@spbalasubramanian7010]

SRINIVASAN YOU HAVE TAKEN ME TO THE THIAGARAJA FESTIVAL OF 1980S STILL THE KRITHI IS HAVING ALIVE BECAUSE IT WAS RECITED BY THE GREAT SINGER

[@santhoshkumar-zj3fr]

what a legend

[@syamalavenkataraman4172]

தெய்வீக இசை

[@varadarajdesikachar7558]

wonderful!!

[@pv741]

Yes, I agree

[@SaiKrishna-hj4ci]

Divine mother our MS garu

[@Gumki]

I agree with the sentiments. VN sir is brilliant. The richness is also enhanced by brilliant handling, especially of the 'thopi' by TKM sir by the intelligent prayogams of solkattus and 'appropriate' shadow playing by ghatam legend, Vikku Vinayakaram sir. Great team work by the 'pak(k)a' vaadhyams in embellishing the great rendition by MS amma. These clips serve as indispensable learning tools for aspiring musicians.

[@bouquet3216]

@vasudhakota972 4 years ago Nidhi Cala Sukhama Raga: Kalyani Talam: Misra Chapu Composer: Tyagaraja Language: Telugu Pallavi: nidhi cAla sukhamA rAmuni sannidhi sEva sukhamA nijamuga palku manasA Anupallavi dadhi navanIta kshIramulu ruciyO dASarathi dhyAna bhajana sudhA rasamu ruciyO (nidhi) caraNam dama Samam(a)nu gangA snAnamu sukhamA kardama dur-vishaya kUpa snAnamu sukhamA mamata bandhana yuta nara stuti sukhamA su-mati tyAgarAja nutuni kIrtana sukhamA (nidhi) Meaning: Pallavi: O My Mind (manasA)! Tell me (palku) truthfully (nijamuga) whether wealth (nidhi) is very (cAla) comforting (sukhamA) or the service (sEva) in the holy presence (sannidhi) of Lord SrI rAma (rAmuni) comforting (sukhamA)? Anupallavi: Are curd (dadhi), fresh butter (navanIta) and milk (kshIramu) etc. (kshIramulu) tasty (ruciyO) or the nectarine (sudhA) juice (rasamu) of meditation (dhyAna) and bhajana of Lord rAma - son of King daSaratha (dASarathi) - tasty (ruciyO)? O My Mind! Tell me truthfully whether wealth is very comforting or the service in the holy presence of Lord SrI rAma comforting? Charanam: Is a bath (snAnamu) in the (holy) river ganga called (anu) (practice of) self control (dama) and tranquility (Sama) (Samamanu) comforting (sukhamA) or is a bath (snAnamu) in the water of well (kUpa) called the filthy (kardama) evil natured objects of senses (dur-vishaya) comforting (sukhamA)? is extolling (stuti) humans (nara) bound by (bandhana yuta) (literally with the fetter of) egotism (mamata) comforting (sukhamA) or is singing songs (kIrtana) of the pure minded (su-mati) Lord praised (nuta) (nutuni) by this tyAgarAja comforting (sukhamA)? O My Mind! Tell me truthfully whether wealth is very comforting or the service in the holy presence of Lord Sri rAma comforting?.

[@kalyanamoorthyraghunath5308]

synchronized music.,,as a riverflows the brigas fall..and floats like a leaf moving on it.heart touching.rk

[@muralikrishnapratapa6960]

Its a great Tyagaraja Kirtana sung by legend. It could be better if meaning of this Kirtana is added as subtitles.

[@seshachary5580]

THANK YOU. REGARDS.

[@arjunas1321]

ശ്രീനിവാസന്‍ നന്ദി

[@sathyavanimaiya959]

She resembles my 👵granny'

[@jhulansarkar2074]

Amma tomar chhobir dike takiye ami stabdho hoye bose thaki.........wish i cud touch you......

[@jagadishchandran2864]

M S s l is music Amamm

[@vasudhakota972]

*Nidhi Cala Sukhama* Raga: Kalyani Talam: Misra Chapu Composer: Tyagaraja Language: Telugu Pallavi: nidhi cAla sukhamA rAmuni sannidhi sEva sukhamA nijamuga palku manasA Anupallavi dadhi navanIta kshIramulu ruciyO dASarathi dhyAna bhajana sudhA rasamu ruciyO (nidhi) caraNam dama Samam(a)nu gangA snAnamu sukhamA kardama dur-vishaya kUpa snAnamu sukhamA mamata bandhana yuta nara stuti sukhamA su-mati tyAgarAja nutuni kIrtana sukhamA (nidhi) *Meaning:* Pallavi: O My Mind (manasA)! Tell me (palku) truthfully (nijamuga) whether wealth (nidhi) is very (cAla) comforting (sukhamA) or the service (sEva) in the holy presence (sannidhi) of Lord SrI rAma (rAmuni) comforting (sukhamA)? Anupallavi: Are curd (dadhi), fresh butter (navanIta) and milk (kshIramu) etc. (kshIramulu) tasty (ruciyO) or the nectarine (sudhA) juice (rasamu) of meditation (dhyAna) and bhajana of Lord rAma - son of King daSaratha (dASarathi) - tasty (ruciyO)? O My Mind! Tell me truthfully whether wealth is very comforting or the service in the holy presence of Lord SrI rAma comforting? Charanam: Is a bath (snAnamu) in the (holy) river ganga called (anu) (practice of) self control (dama) and tranquility (Sama) (Samamanu) comforting (sukhamA) or is a bath (snAnamu) in the water of well (kUpa) called the filthy (kardama) evil natured objects of senses (dur-vishaya) comforting (sukhamA)? is extolling (stuti) humans (nara) bound by (bandhana yuta) (literally with the fetter of) egotism (mamata) comforting (sukhamA) or is singing songs (kIrtana) of the pure minded (su-mati) Lord praised (nuta) (nutuni) by this tyAgarAja comforting (sukhamA)? O My Mind! Tell me truthfully whether wealth is very comforting or the service in the holy presence of Lord Sri rAma comforting?.

[@rarunadri8033]

Divine!

[@n.badrinarayanan.sakunthal9668]

Nothing in the world when comparing carnatic music by our artist's.No comparisons for thiyagaraja kruthis

[@nitheeshts9234]

👌

[@yeshprabhu2887]

Ashish Iyer, nothing wrong if Carnatic musicians sing for cinemas. Smt M S Subbulaxmi herself sang six songs in the movie Shakuntala, in which she also acted as Shakuntala, in 1940, when she was 23- 24 years old. She also sang and acted in the movie Meera. A few other great Carnatic vocalists in the 1930's also sang for cinemas. Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania

[@rukmanirajagopalanjanakhir5536]

sishya of saint thyagaraja

[@SreevatsaKota]

Well spoken, Samaganam. My sentiments exactly. :-)

[@classicalindia9141]

Wow !!!!!!!!😍😍😍😍😻😻😻 Akka Thanks for this video

[@naduvilp1]

tks.for uploading

[@rameshram-gc4sm]

Ms amma mana amma

[@nvsradha1984]

naadaswarupini neevaenamma ms

[@jagannadharao4693]

great..

[@krishnareddy2803]

నిధి చాల సుఖమా?

[@hulk70006]

can't say anything . . DHANYOSMI..!!

[@sreekanthnisari]

nidhicAla sukhamA rAmuni sannidhi sEva sukhamA nijamuga balku manasA (nidhicAla) anupallavi dadhi navanIta kSIramulu ruciyO dAsharathi dhyAna bhajana sudhArasamu ruciyO (nidhicAla) caraNam dama shamamanu gangA snAnamu sukhamA kardama durviSaya kUpa snAnamu sukhamA mamata bandhana yuta narastuti sukhamA surapati tyAgarAja nutuni kIrtana sukhamA (nidhicAla)

[@VenugopalanKMcpiml]

Thyagaraja's Ram , in most attributes, is much different than the political Ram of these days or even that of the ancient.. Perhaps he sang more or less like his predecessor poets and composers of the bhakti tradition..Kabir and Tulsidas though represented different streams of the bhakti movement, their Ram was the imagined embodiment of human virtues... !

[@bouquet3216]

Raga - Kalyani - see Title

[@Tcramana]

Pallavi నిధి చాల సుఖమా రాముని సన్నిధి సేవ సుఖమా నిజముగ పల్కు మనసా Anupallavi దధి నవనీత క్షీరములు రుచియో1 దాశరథి ధ్యాన భజన సుధా రసము రుచియో Charanam దమ శమమను2 గంగా స్నానము సుఖమా కర్దమ దుర్విషయ కూప స్నానము సుఖమా మమతా 3 బంధన యుత నర స్తుతి సుఖమా సుమతి4 త్యాగరాజ నుతుని కీర్తన సుఖమా Variations 1రుచియో - రుచో 3మమత - మమతా .

[@venkatkotu1842]

Ramanareddy

[@hemasudhakar6248]

13:43

[@csambhamurthy6723]

MS means MAHASARASWATHI. PR ANAMAMULU

[@samaganam]

one correction paramparaa!!Though my english is not as exquisite as yours,I think I can still point at a small correction here.I am very glad that you gave the narrative for the song,but I think su in sanskrit means good /pleasant and not pure.Like Su-Jata,Su-mana,Su-swara. SO Sumati means good natured,good intending and not Pure-minded Rama!! Well, its 0.00001% probablity that paramparaa sir is wrong and that I am right but forgive my ignorance if any.Thanks!!

[@SBCLARKE08]

SriSamaganam, BrAhmaNaya namah. You are correct in a limited sense of su = eu, as in Greek BUT ; codayitrI sunRtAnAm cetanti sumatinAm yajnam dadhe etc. you can see that the sense is more than "good, pleasant, right, correct". It does go a step beyond, tending towards those who are pure, pure of mind, pure of heart, pure in their actions. What do you think? Again, suhasinim, sumadhurabhasinim : here, the su is far more emphatic than merely good or pleasant: the smile of the mataram is seen to be exquisitely beautiful and pure, well beyond the good/pleasant, and so is Her bhasha. Examples like this can be multiplied. What you must keep in mind, as your own name indicates, is that in the Vedic period, there was jsut BhAShA and ChAndasa. BhAShA was the name given to language spoken by everyone, and there was no separate term for it, no Hindi, Marathi, Tamizh, etc. What was spoken as inspired language by the "kavi" the seer, the mantradraShTrA, that whch was "kavikratu" was termed "ChAndasa". Naturally, just as in English, the meaning of words shift in verse from their accepted use in common parlance, so too ChAndasa usage is strongly different from BhAShA, and the two never can be comparable. It is not merely poetic licence, but one is kavikratu, the other is vaikhari vAk. Huge, huge difference. Kavikratu NEVER is vaikhari, it is arising from infinitely purer planes, at least PASHYANTI if not ParA. This is why we accept them as SHRUTI. Why do we SING the SAMAN? To touch the Nada brahman; you know the Maheshwara sutrani, yes? To enter the nada brahman, where non-conceptuality is achieved by negating the concpetual mind, and buddhi, which is samvrtti. That is why we SING, and is why the term VIPRA, who vibrates, trembles, is also applied. Respected Sir, how can MERELY GOOD or PLEASANT be applicable here? Must not PURITY be the CRITERION?, SAmagA, must you not aim for absolute purity, shreya, at all times, not preya, pleasant? Setuuu....uun..stara dustaraa..aaa.aaan. Namaskar.

[@venkatanagan9874]

I tend to agree with SAMAGANA. Venkata Nagan.

[@HariMSC]

lyrics in English please.

[@ashishiyer9165]

Tyagaraja in this song condemns Nara stuti and says only Rama has to be venerated.But we so many people going against this principle, even established carnatic musicians(except a few like the honorable MS amma) selling their voices to film music and Nara stuti. Might be a hard fact to digest. To live up to Tyagaraja's idea of life is a hard task.

[@kalyanamoorthyraghunath5308]

synchronized music..rk