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22/08/2026

Narayana Theerathar composed not kritis but tarangas—waves—each phrase part of a Sanskrit opera called Krishna Leela Tarangini, where the devotee calls, protect me, protect me, O Madhava, O Krishna of the Yadu clan.

Smt. Jayalakshmi Sekhar and K*m. Samanvitha presented Madhava Mammava in a Veena concert at Bekal Gokulam Goushala in Periya, Alakode, Kasargod, accompanied by K*m. Manasvini on Tambura, Sri Sunaada Krishna Amai on Mridangam, Sri Sai Bharath on Kanjira, and Sri Trichy Murali on Ghatam. The twin veenas moved like breath, one calling and the other answering, while the tambura held the shruti beneath.

Madhava Mammava is composed in raga Neelambari, set to Adi thala, part of Narayana Theerathar's Sanskrit opera; the pallavi calls: O Madhava, protect me, O Lord Krishna, Krishna of the Yadu family. The kriti describes Krishna as protector of noble people and invokes him for protection, highlighting his compassionate nature. Neelambari is a raga of grace and petition, its swaras gentle yet insistent, and the veena's gamaka brought the plea to life—each phrase a wave, each wave an offering.

Two hundred and twenty-five cows stood still in the evening air, Goumata bearing silent witness as the strings carried the name Madhava across the field. The veena did not perform; it petitioned. The swaras rose toward Krishna, and in that rising the instruments became one voice, the plea made audible. The Goushala sits near the Arabian Sea, close to Bekal Fort, where the sound of protection sought became the sound of protection given.



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22/08/2026

Fragrance of bhakti lingers in every note. Every gesture and note here becomes sacred. Artists: Sruthi Varijakshan Along With Violin: Anoop P Bhaskar; Mridangam: Devraj Sangeeth carried the fragrance of bhakti through Vocal Concert.

Sruthi Varijakshan Along With Violin: Anoop P Bhaskar; Mridangam: Devraj Sangeeth presenting a Vocal Concert performance at Bekal Gokulam Goushala, offering devotion to Lord Krishna and Goumata.
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A day filled with music, devotion, and gentle eyes. Honored to perform at this sacred space. ✨😇
21/08/2026

A day filled with music, devotion, and gentle eyes. Honored to perform at this sacred space. ✨😇

21/08/2026

Roopakam's three units pulse like breath drawn and held before prayer — the measure that shapes Thapashananam, a kriti offered in raga Salangata. Aditya Mohan presents a vocal recital at Bekal Gokulam Goushala in Periya, Alakode, Kasargod, accompanied by Vayala Rajendran on violin, and Sunaada Krishna Amai on mridangam.

The song unfolds in Roopakam, a thala of six beats grouped in two and four, its cycle intimate and direct. Salangata, a raga less often heard in concert halls, receives form and breath through Aditya Mohan's rendering, swara woven into rhythm, voice and accompaniment moving together through phrases of melody.

The Goushala is home to more than 225 native Indian cows across nine indigenous breeds, and Gou Seva is offered daily to Lord Krishna. Here the music travels inward, toward Goumata who stands silent witness, and toward Krishna who receives each note as an act of remembrance. The voice rises beneath the open sky, the Arabian Sea near, Bekal Fort watching from its ancient stone.

Vayala Rajendran's violin answers and shadows the vocal line, exploring the raga's melodic possibilities with patient attention. Sunaada Krishna Amai's mridangam marks the thala, each stroke a reminder that rhythm is the ground on which swara walks.

To sing a kriti is to place oneself in a lineage — composer, song, raga, thala, and the silence that follows. Aditya Mohan's voice carries Thapashananam forward, not as spectacle but as an act of devotion made audible. The swara reaches Krishna. The cows listen. The sea continues its ancient rhythm beyond the walls.



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21/08/2026

Arunagirinathar addresses Narada in Adhala Seda Narada, a Thirupugazh composition that weaves through ragas like a garland, each phrase drawing the sage closer to Murugan's presence. Meenakshi Varma offered this Ragamalika kriti in vocal concert at Bekal Gokulam Goushala, accompanied by Sathish Varma on Violin, Suriya Nambisan on Mridangam, and Shinu Gopinath Kottayam on Ghatam. The performance unfolded in the presence of 225 cows and the open sky of Periya, Alakode, where the Arabian Sea meets the sacred ground near Bekal Fort.

The pallavi invokes Narada, the celestial sage who moves between worlds, bearing the veena and the name of the Lord. Arunagirinathar composed thousands of Thirupugazhs in praise of Murugan, each line a rhythmic offering shaped by devotion and urgency. Ragamalika means garland of ragas, and in this kriti the voice moves through multiple scales, each one a petal placed at the feet of the deity. Set to Khandachappu thala, the asymmetric pulse carries the melody in six beats divided unevenly, the rhythm ancestral and alive. Meenakshi Varma's voice traced the contours of each raga, shifting mood without pause, while the violin shadowed and the percussion held the pulse steady.

Goumata stood witness, silent and still, as the swara reached Krishna through the evening air. The cows moved gently in their sheds, their presence a living mantra around the music. The voice carried prayer outward, toward the sea and the fort and the deity residing in sound itself.





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21/08/2026

The Goushala sanctifies every act of devotion. The Goushala transforms art into offering. Artists: Sadashiva Acharya Along With Violin: Anoop P Bhaskar; Mridangam: Devraj Sangeeth shone in Vocal Concert, resonating with Krishna’s grace.

Sadashiva Acharya Along With Violin: Anoop P Bhaskar; Mridangam: Devraj Sangeeth presenting a Vocal Concert performance at Bekal Gokulam Goushala, offering devotion to Lord Krishna and Goumata.
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21/08/2026

Samūha-ārambha — the collective beginning where one voice becomes many feet, one teaching becomes shared breath. The Vrindhavanam Group from Guruvayoor brings Bharatanatyam not as solo testimony but as communal offering, trained under Arya V. Damodaran, each body a branch of the same devotional canopy. At Bekal Gokulam Goushala, the ensemble arrives not to perform upon the earth but to root into it, their aramandi pressing down where Goumata walks daily in her slow pilgrimage toward water and shade.

The dance unfolds as circle within circle — the ensemble's formation mirroring the cows' gentle orbit around the feeding ground at dusk, both movements governed by rhythm older than instruction. Krishna receives what the dancers offer: synchronized breath, shared pulse, the geometry of surrender repeated across ten spines, twenty feet. He does not stand distant but draws each gesture toward himself, each hand position a syllable spoken in his direction. Goumata does not watch from outside this arrangement but stands within it, her steady gaze the axis around which devotion revolves. The pre-recorded music does not diminish presence but clarifies it — no distraction, only the body's translation of sound into visible prayer.

Guruvayoor's temple legacy travels here through these dancers, each step a syllable of the township's centuries-long conversation with Krishna.



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21/08/2026

Sumasayaka is a plea to Padmanabha from a woman separated from her beloved, her heart heavy with longing, her time spent in the agony of desire — a chowka varnam by Swati Tirunal Maharaja, breathtakingly beautiful, encompassing the entire swaroopam of Karnataka Kapi. Pattabhirama Pandit presented this composition in a vocal concert at Bekal Gokulam Goushala in Periya, Alakode, Kasargod, accompanied by L Ramakrishnan on Violin, Bangalore V Praveen on Mridangam, and Suresh Vaidyanathan on Ghatam.

Sumasayaka vidhuramava is set in raga Karnataka Kapi and Roopakam thala, a pada varnam rendered in leisurely tempo, its long phrases moving through longing, love and refuge. Swati Tirunal Maharaja composed his lyric to the musical template of sarasAlanu, and Karnataka Kapi holds both—sringara and separation woven into the gandhara. Pattabhirama Pandit's voice moves through the phrases, drawing out the ache in the raga, the slow cadence of Roopakam steadying the swara.

The voice rose toward Krishna. Goumata stood listening, still beneath the open sky. The ocean nearby held its sound, the swara reaching the courtyard, each phrase folding into the next. The performance settled into the Goushala at Periya, the sacred presence of cows and the evening quiet.

Music offered in silence does not fade. It remains, written into the ground where it was sung, held by those who heard it and those who will not.



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21/08/2026

When bhakti guides art, eternity listens. When art is performed with bhakti, it touches eternity. Artists: Disha Girish (Mangalore) offered such an eternal Bharatnatyam here.

Disha Girish (Mangalore) presenting a Bharatnatyam performance at Bekal Gokulam Goushala, offering devotion to Lord Krishna and Goumata.
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21/08/2026

Raga Bindumalini is known only through the single composition of Saint Tyagaraja, Entha muddo entha sogaso — the question that opens this kriti and never fully closes: how charming, how beautiful is He, who can describe?

Vaachaspathi Bonala offered a vocal concert at Bekal Gokulam Goushala in Periya, Alakode, Kasargod, during the Deepavali Sangeethothsavam. He was accompanied by Manjoor Renjith on Violin, Niksh*th Puttur on Mridangam, and R. Rohith Prasad Kottayam on Ghatam. The music was offered in the presence of Goumata.

The kriti Entha Muddo is a creation of Tyagaraja Swami, composed in raga Bindumalini and set to Adi thala. Tyagaraja pities people who fall for lust without knowing the beauty of the Lord, asking how such grace and loveliness could ever be captured in words. Bindumalini carries touches of playfulness as well as auspicious, devotional moods, its vakra swaras winding through praise and yearning. The raga gives a feel of pathos, the melodic curve bending the devotee's gaze inward toward the indescribable form of the Lord.

The swara rose toward Krishna, the silent cows gathered in the goushala beneath the open sky. The question Tyagaraja placed in the pallavi traveled through the accompaniment, through the voice, through the air near the Arabian Sea, and found no answer but the music itself. Goumata stood witness, Krishna received the offering, and the raga held both wonder and stillness in a single phrase.

The kriti remains, the question remains, and the beauty it seeks to name continues to escape description and dwell in sound.



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