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Soon, I could recite the whole hymn along with M S. These words have increased in depth and meaning to me over the years. I learned it has four parts: Suprabhaatam, stotram, prapatti, and Mangalaashaasanam.

Over the coming months, I learned the Suprabhaatam by heart.
SRI VENKATESWARA SUPRABHATAM OLD HOW TO
Subsequently, Uncle taught me how to operate the tape recorder safely, even to thread the tape. I understood some of the hymns in translation. I would listen and recite looking at the book. The only recording on it was Smt M S Subbulakshmi’s rendering of the Suprabhaatam.Įvery morning, I’d take bath, apply a spot of vibhuti to the forehead, and listen to it with a copy of the TTD (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam) publication of the Suprabhaatam with Samskrtam (Sanskrit) text, Tamizh transliteration, word for word meaning in Tamizh, and purport in Tamizh prose.
SRI VENKATESWARA SUPRABHATAM OLD FULL
This is what Sri Thirumale used to recite every morning.Īfter some days (or was it weeks?), Uncle borrowed a Grundig Telefunken spool tape recorder from a colleague and it came with but two spools – 1 full and 1 to take the tape. One day, while I was in class 2, I found myself sitting in front of Aththi as she taught me the first shloka of the Sri Venkatesha Suprabhaatam (or just ‘Suprabhaatam’ as it is even now known). All the while, he would be reciting something. He would have washed some clothes and would be putting these up to dry on the bamboo poles hung horizontally from the ceiling. Very early every morning, from the west, I would hear Sri Thirumale’s voice.
