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The man who remains bound by personal or social ideas of duty, necessary as they are for the ignorant to tame their clamorous desires, will be indeed a "good" man, but he will never attain to the fulfilment of this yoga [taught in the Gita]. He will only replace the desire for one kind of fruit by the desire for another kind; he will strive, even more passionately perhaps, for these higher results and be more bitterly grieved by not attaining them.

There is no passion so terrible as the passion of the altruist, no egoism so hard to shake as the fixed egoism of virtue, precisely because it is justified in its own eyes and justified in the sight of men and cannot see the necessity for yielding to a higher law. Even if there is no grieving over the results, there will be the labour and strife of the rajasic kartA¢, struggling nd fighting, getting eager and getting exhausted, not trigunA¢tI®ta, always under bondage to the gunas.

It was under the domination of these ideas of personal virtue and social duty that Arjuna refused to fight.

Hindustaani sangItam (realaudio)

KarNATaka sangItam (realaudio)

A plea to rasikas

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More tyAgarAja kR^itis

A plea to rasikas

That's precisely where the Internet helps, isn't it, to house music in an indestructible but widely shareable form?

Hence I request rasikas to come forward and share with me copies of those rare concerts so I can put them online to give everybody an oppurtunity to share the sangItAmR^itaM ! You'll be duly recognized on the website for your contribution. And rest assured that it will not be used for profit.

For starters, I am looking for the following:

• pre-1970 concerts by M. Balamurali Krishna
• pre-1975 concerts by Vinjamuri Varadaraja Iyengar, M.D.Ramanathan, GNB, Oleti, Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (violin), or their gurus.
• concerts by Emani Sankara SAstri, Emani Gayatri, Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (veena)
• Any concerts that brought an artist (male or female) to fame.

I am especially looking for any clear and well-pronounced renditions of rare tyAgarAja kR^itis.

I am NOT interested in hosting contemporary artists' works on my website as there are umpteen other sites for that (e.g., musicindiaonline.com).

If you have anything interesting, please email to sai.susarla@gmail.com .

Transfer methods

• You can upload music files to my upload website in mp3 or realaudio format, at your convenience.
  (The site is password-protected; send me email to get the password).
• You are also welcome to send me copies of your cassettes/CDs by postal mail. Please email me and I'll give you my postal address in the U.S. or India.