Audio Recordings of Maha Periyava

     The bulk of audio recordings of discourses by Maha Periyava was made during 1957-59. The taping was done by R. Anantha Narayanan, with help from Kalki. These recordings waited for nearly 50 years to be released as DVDs in 2013. The video recording of the audio release has interesting anecdotes about the efforts involved in getting the old tapes processed when modern technology was not good enough to read the tapes and older generation tape recorders were sought. As technology evolves, technology also becomes obsolete. One wonders for how long one can preserve information today, given the tera and peta bytes of storage which abound but are susceptible to failure! What redundancy can one look for?

Video of the release of the DVDs

About the DVds

    
The list of tracks in each of the first 3 DVDs in the set is given below. It is not clear if the title of the track and Maha Periyava's speech are matched. Much effort is required to identify the actual content of each track.

    
The audio files included in the DVDs are of varying audio quality, considering the fact that in 1957 one could not have envisaged a professional recording setup in a public place where Maha Periyava was giving his speeches. Yet, there is a glimmer of hope that sophisticated audio processing methods available today may be used to enhance the quality of the audio. This would certailnly requires hours of work but the results would be most useful to the current generation.

Devotees of Maha Periyava who desire to undertake this job, individually or collectively may kindly indicate their willingness to the administrator of this site (contact.php).

Deivathin Kural and the recordings

    
Ra. Ganapathy had taken notes of Maha Periyava's speeches and several sections in the volumes of Deivathin Kural reflect the contents of the recordings. An effort is being made to link the essays with the recordings but this has proved to be a difficult task requiring one to fully listen to the audio files and identify the sections in Deivathin Kural which relate to the recording.

Volunteers of Vidya Vriksha are helping us with this and this page will feature the linking when the task is completed. In the mean time, The titles of sevaral videos on youtube bear a strong relationship to the tiltles in the volumes of Deivathin Kural (specifically Vol-1). The search facility at this site may help identify the specific title if one hears the audio for key phrases and attempts a search.

Given below are some references to the recording and the sections in Deivathin Kural which relate to the recording. This list will get updated from time to time.This list is yet to be added

Audio filesof Periyava's discourses

Periyava Kural clips broadcast by Shankara TV (2012-13)

These were once available on youtube but it appears that youtube removed the audio citing copyright violations. Shankara TV broadcast these again in 2018 and may do so in future.