Lord Ganesha is a very enigmatic divine figure! He has a lot of uniqueness in Hindu mythology! Not many Gods are horizontally challenged like him! Not many Gods have animal heads like him! He proved himself very smart when it came to winning the competition started by Narada muni! These two kids had to come around the world 3 times to win the competition to prove themselves worthy of getting the much coveted fruit that Narada muni gave to Lord Shiva! Who would go around the entire 24901 miles - the actual earth circumference?
Christopher Reeves may have had the power to make the earth spin anti-clockwise to regress time in Superman! But Lord Ganesh, being a naive God child, seriously wondered his limitations, especially with his weight challenge! Could he make that long trip of 74703 miles! He used all his astuteness and figured out one thing! As a child, if he argued cutely wagging his trunk hither and thither, that "his subjective world" was just his "parents", then who could repudiate that common-sense driven logic? So, he just did that very same thing, while Lord Karthikeya was stupidly trying to whirl around the humongously big spherical earth! He simply dumbfounded his silly and oll-lly (tamil word) brother Karthikeya when he returned back from his international trip! He didn't sweat a darn, just sat there in the nice, chilly and cozy mount Kailash, with a sly grin and told his brother that he was the victor! Put yourself in the position of Lord Kartikeya and just try to feel how much it would have made you feel angry - to be defeated by the chicanery of this elephant-headed sloth!
Anyway, my mother decided not to discriminate against this seemingly cunning God! She wrote this nice song all in praise of him! It is set in Ranjani raga!
Pallavi:
Vigna Vinayaka charanam charanam!
Dhukka nivaarana charanam charanam!
Anupallavi:
Bhakthiyudan unnai niththam thudhi paada
Sakthi maindhaa enakku sakala balam tharanum!
Charanam:
Sankaran pudhalvaa sankadangal thavirpaai
Omkaara roopanae paangaagavae vandhu
Singaara velanin seermigu sodharaa
Mangala moorthiyae magimaiyura varanum!
My mom looked at Lord Vinayaka from his father point of view (Sankaran pudhalvaa), and brother point of view (Velanin sodharaa) and also called him as "dhukka nivaaranaa". Lord Ganesh will not only cure your illness after your being afflicted, but he is also good at "preventing illness even before it occurs". He knows that prevention is better than cure, so you better start any pooja with Ganesh prayer first! Even if you are a vaishnavite, you may start your pooja with praying at least "Thumbikkai Aazhvaar"!
And now, I sang a raga that is just related by namesake to the above Ranjani raaga that my mom used for her song! Click below to hear me sing and see if you can identify the raga:
I remind you once more to my hexadecimal methodology of naming musical notes. Please see the self-explanatory figure below:
Ranjani raga has different arohanam and avarohanam. Thus when you go up (arohanam) you go "023690" and when you come down (avarohanam), you play "0b9630". Try that! You got Ranjani now!
And the raga that I sang above is Mararanjani (25th melakartha). It has the same arohanam and avarohanam. Play "02457890" up and down and you got Mararanjani!
You probably wonder why it sounds so close to Charukesi! Playing Charukesi is simple - "024578a0". Try that in your keyboard! Thats it! So, now you see that Mararanjani and Charukesi are very closely related ragas! Instead of "9" (Na1 in Mararanjani), you have to go with "a" (Ni2) to get Charukesi.
And the last 30 seconds in the above video I sang "Saama" - its arohanam is "025790" and its avarohanam is "0975420". Do you see how these ragas are genetically related?
Have fun playing your keyboard! Cheers, until next time!
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