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A Gift for Radha - Raga Bhupali

by Shyan Kishore

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Raga Bhupali - Alaap 40:40
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Raga Bhupali - Jor & Jhala 41:56
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For me this is a Raga which emanates pure positive energy and which I totally adore.
I am happy to explain a little about it, and my personal relationship with it.

Bhupali, also known as Bhoop, Bhopali or Bhoopali, is a Hindustani Classical Raga. It is a pentatonic scale, using 5 notes in ascent and descent.

The same Raga in Carnatic music is known as Mohanam.

Raga Bhoopali, Raga Yaman and Raga Bhairav tend to be the three basic ragas of Hindustani music, learnt first by students, but which can take many years to embody / master.

Ragas are usually performed according to certain times in the day due to the vibrational qualities in the nature and atmosphere complimentarily support the blossoming of each Raga.
Raga Bhupali is considered to channel through at it’s best when performed in the first part of the night from 9pm to 12pm.
It is said to be having the quality of non-attachment.
Ragas are associated with certain emotional moods called Rasas. Raga Bhupali is said to be of the Rasa Bhakti - Devotion. The essence from Raga Bhupali also evokes the 'Shanti Rasa' - Peaceful and calming.

For me this Raga has always been one of my dearest friends and loving companions. The first time I was gifted with it’s divine qualities I felt the feeling of love swell up inside me to the point that I felt completely intoxicated.

A warm current of peace flowed gracefully throughout my being. A fruitful orange and golden energy expanded within and all around me. I felt like I was floating in the heavenly realms of immeasurable gratitude.

For me Bhupali is deep and regal, yet light and playful. It enables one to soar high on long sonorous tones of tremendous beauty, and takes one deep into it’s heart with slow gracious glides that compassionately caress with the tenderness of a mother. And it also seems ceaseless with generous offerings of imaginative phrases that dance joyfully and invitingly in the spaciousness within.

If I were to associate any Raga with the Hindu God Krishna, who is depicted as playing the Bansuri flute, I would choose this one most predominantly. I feel that the qualities that I have come to learn as being possessed and expressed by Krishna are to be found in this divine Raga.

Radha is a representative of the sacred feminine, and whose Bhakti is to serve as a devotional reflection of Krishna’s inexhaustible love which serves all. Radha’s devotion is the full acknowledgment of the immensity of this love. With full surrender she becomes completely saturated. ‘Oneness’ is achieved.

Thank you, as always to my beloved Guru Ji Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.

And thank you to all of those who have blessed me with knowledge regarding Ragas and the sacred realms of sound.

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released May 7, 2019

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Shyan Kishore, student of the renowned Pandit. Hariprasad Chaurasia has been playing the Indian classical Bansuri flute since 1996.
Fully surrendered to the path and guidance of sound, having tasted the divine nectar from it's source within the flower of himself.
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