Sri Tyagaraja, the eighteenth-century saint musician of south India, has a permanent place in Indian history and culture. He was not only a musical genius but a saint who had the vision of God and who sang His praise in sweet melody. His songs were composed in Telugu, his mother tongue. This book, written and compiled by the late C. Ramanujachari, gives a valuable description of the saint?s life and contains translations of all of his known songs.
There is only one sin -- and that sin is weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is the soul who never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
-Swami Vivekananda