Jeeva Quotes

Nada Brahma Vishwaswaroopa Nada hi Sakala Jeeva Roopa Nada hi karma, Nada hi dharma Nada hi bandhana, Nada hi mukti Nada hi Shankara, Nada hi Shakti Nada Brahma Vishwaswaroopa Nadam Nadam, Sarvam Nadam Nadam Nadam, Nadam Nadam (Sound is Brahman, the manifestation of the universe, sound manifests itself in the form of all life, sound is bondage, sound is the means of liberation, sound is that which binds, sound is that which liberates, sound is the bestower of all, sound is the power behind everything, sound is everything.)

Manjanathiah and his outspoken but warm-hearted wife, Meenakshiamma (1909-94), were among Tata's closest friends. Some of Tata's early novels like Bettada Jeeva (Man from the Mountain) were written when he took time off to stay with them. At the end of each day, Tata read out his literary output to the couple.

As a novelist, Karanth inherited the Reformist Novel or the Novel of Purpose, and he wrote, in the beginning, similar Reformist novels that dwelt on the evils of orthodox Hindu society. But, very soon, he got tired of such novels of purpose. He explains this shift in his stance to a question of Ananthamurthy - another great writer and admirer of Karanth - in these words ; "In the beginning, my attitude was that of a social reformer. My aim, then, was destruction - a sort of ‘not this, not this, not this.’ ... But later I began to look for another more standing value - a value that can make life more interesting and beautiful. If everything is destructible, why should we live ? There must be something - some faith, some joy - which makes one persist with life. I want to explore that." Most of Karanth’s great novels like Marali Mannige, Bettada Jeeva, and Mai Managala Suliyalli explore such life-sustaining values.