അരൂപാ മഹാത്മാ
Arūpā Mahātmā
| CMSI Ref. Number | MA-MAL-02-DCS-015 |
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Arūpā Mahātmā അരൂപാ മഹാത്മാ |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Author of text | Dr.Thomas Kochumuttom, C.M.I. |
| Composer of melody | Fr.Thomas Kandathil, C.M.I. |
| Performer(s) | Joseph Palackal |
Source of Text -Christian Bhajans
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| Typesetting by | Sherin Joseph |
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| Recordings |  DCS-015 Aroopa Mahathma'. Track 1 of Christian Bhajans, LP Record in Malayalam. |
| Comments | Dr. Thomas Kochumuttom, CMI, wrote these four-line lyrics as a chant before the proclamation of the Gospel in the “Indian Liturgy” at Dharmaram College, Bengaluru, in the early 1970s. Fr. Thomas Kandathil, CMI (1942-2012), composed it in Mohana ragam and taught me. I used to be a regular participant in the Indian liturgy and used to sing this chant. Later we sang this and other chants onto a cassette recorder for non-commercial dissemination. In 1978, I decided to use this chant for the opening track in the LP record of Christian Bhajans. Fr. Kochumuttam compressed the gist of Indian philosophy in these four lines: knowledge (Vidya) as the supreme goal of the human search for the ultimate reality, “awidya” (lack of knowledge) as darkness that should be destroyed, and the search for the divine light that will abolish darkness. All in all, it sounded like an appropriate invocation for an LP of Christian Bhajans. Prof. Pratapkumar J. Toliya made the music arrangement and supervised the recording at the H. M. V. studio at Gemini, Chennai. The famous sound engineer, Raghunathan, did the recording. .. Read More |
