Vijayadasmi.
The Culmination of an incredible nine days of home poojas, making prasad, Temple visits, golu hopping, student aradhanas/rehearsals, full time work.
A day when sishyas must learn a new lesson and receive blessings from their gurus. I emphasise to them that the correct attitudes to have, when pursuing any field are humility, unquenching thirst for more knowledge, single minded devotion to the guru and the tenacity to practise and master the skill.
I want for them to know, to understand that Music, the Arts should be an intrinsic part of themselves, and that the sum of these parts, their careers, their arts are what will make them whole. I want them to know these can exist side by side and are not mutually exclusive.
Received my Guru’s blessings too.
Draped a lovely light silk mustard green kalamkari with a gorgeous pallu of my favourite bird – the Swan surrounded by lotuses. Added bonuses are motifs of the musical instruments I love – veenas, sitars, tablas, mridhangams, horns.
Photo credit : My student Ambika Krishnamoorthy clicked as I taught on the Veena.
Bavani’s Happy Place 