{"id":13402,"date":"2010-10-01T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/?p=13402"},"modified":"2010-10-02T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T20:13:10","slug":"swami-haridas-music-festival-in-vrindavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/swami-haridas-music-festival-in-vrindavan\/","title":{"rendered":"Swami Haridas Music Festival in Vrindavan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Braj Vrindavan Heritage Alliance<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

www.bihariji.org<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

www.dhrupad.info<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/bvhalliance.blogspot.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

www.sudhir pandey.tabla masters.htm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Swami Haridas was a spiritual poet and classical musician. Credited with a large body of devotional compositions, especially in the Dhrupad style, he is also the founder of the Haridasi school of mysticism, still found today in North India. His work influenced both the classical music and the Bhakti movements of North India, especially those devoted to Krishna’s consort Radha. He is accounted a follower of the Nimbarka Sampradaya, the major Vaisnava tradition of exclusive devotion to Radha-Krishna. He was the disciple of Purandara Dasa and the teacher of Tansen. Read More: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>> HERE <<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Vrindavan (Hindi: \u0935\u0943\u0928\u094d\u0926\u093e\u0935\u0928)( pronunciation (help\u00b7info)) (alternately spelled Vrindaban, Brindavan, Brindavana, or Brundavan) also known as Vraj (as it lies in the Braj region) is a town in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the site of an ancient forest which is the region where Lord Krishna spent his childhood days. The town is about 15 km away from Mathura, the city of Lord Krishna’s birthplace, near the Agra-Delhi highway. The town hosts hundreds of temples dedicated to the worship of Radha and Krishna and is considered sacred by a number of religious traditions such as Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Vaishnavism, and Hinduism in general. It is nicknamed „City of Widows“ after the large population of abandoned widows who seek refuge here. Read More: <\/span><\/span><\/strong>> <\/span>HERE <<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Swami Haridas<\/strong> was a multi faceted personality. Primarily we know him as the saint who realized God through the route of nad brahma sadhna i.e. praying continuously in music. He not only composed a large number of poems (pad) but also started and perfected newer raags in classical music to sing the same. He realized God in the form of Shri Bankey Bihari, started the tradition of and initiated his disciples into rasopasna bhakti. He is also known as Adya Acharya of Raas Leela tradition. His birthday, which falls on Radha Ashtami day, is celebrated as a very special day in the temple, in Nidhivan and in Vrindavan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nidhivan as well as temple, both are decorated tastefully with flowers, flags and hangings. We have regular darshan at both places in the morning. In afternoon, around 4:30 PM, Raas Leela is staged in the courtyard of the temple. It is worthwhile to note, it is only once in the whole year on this day, that Raas Leela is performed in the temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

Swami Haridas Sangit Samaroh Festival<\/strong> – Eminent Musician His Holiness Swami D. R. Parvatikar Veena Maharaj wanted to establish a yearly music Festival a international level at Vrindaban India in glorious memory of great musician Saint Shri Swami Haridas (Guru of Tansen ). Several music devotees and Artist appreciated this thinking of Veena Maharaj and Shri Swami Haridas Seva Samiti established by him in 1964 and every year Swami Haridas Sangit Samaroh started on Bihar Panchami, the appearance day of Shri Thakur Bankey Behariji.<\/span><\/p>\n

After some period Shri Gopal Goswami taken up to organize the festival in Vrindaban, Delhi and Mumbai on the occasion of Radha-Astthami and managed many years. Gopal Goswami also organized the festival for few years. Prior to that Saint Shri Paad Baba of Vrindaban organized this music festival. This of Radha-Asthmi Atul Krshna Goswami organized it three days in Saneh Bihari Temple in Vrindaban.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Swami Haridas Sangit Samaroh in the stage of famous Senior Artists of music field. Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar, Bhim Sen Joshi, Bismillah Khan, Vilayat Khan, Gopikrishna, Sitara Devi, Kishori Amonkar, Ramchaturmalik and all of maximum famous artists have already been participated ith devotion to Swami Haridas ji. In view of the chain, this year also famous artists been invited.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maestro Dr. Acharya Trigunateet Jaimini presented excellent performance on Sitar with beautiful accompany of Tabla player Sudhir Pandey from Delhi India who has quality experience of accompany with great masters Nikhil Banerji, Jasraj, Vilayat Khan & other Indian classical masters. Dr. Jaimini (Disciple of Swami D. R. Parvatikar) always get remarkable appreciations from the intellectual audience. His artistic talency holding over since two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Jaimini & Sudhir Pandey also awarded Shastriya Kala Ratna Award in Swami Haridas Sangit Samaroh Festival. Coordinator Anup Sharma & Devendra Sharma told that He Specially invited Sudhir Pandey Tabla Player from Delhi to accompany with Dr. Jaimini for best presentation to the audience was thankful to Acharya Jaimini for his valuable participation in the programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

Article by <\/span><\/span><\/strong>Ratnambara Sharma
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