Ragas for Dispassion
18 ragas in the tradition are associated with dispassion. Which one suits you depends on the hour you are listening and on your own chart, so the times below matter as much as the names.
Renunciate late-morning mood; traditionally sobering and settling.
Spare pre-dawn raga of the renunciate; strongly associated with dhyana.
Bittersweet evening raga adopted into Hindustani from the Carnatic mela.
Bittersweet — brightness above, pathos below. Traditionally used to hold sorrow without being crushed by it.
Grave dawn raga; solemn and prayerful.
Even-tempered Asavari relative.
Mendicant dawn raga; traditionally the mood of renunciation.
Sober late-morning raga of the Asavari family.
A dusk raga of prayer and renunciation; traditionally used at sandhya for surrender.
Sunset raga without Pa; traditionally the mood of dissolution and letting go.
Hot afternoon raga; traditionally used when energy flags in the middle of the day.
Sober and introspective; traditionally associated with detachment and acceptance.
Twilight raga of prayer; traditionally sung at sandhya.
Sunset raga of dissolution; the kriti for Rahu is set in this raga.
Spare and luminous; traditionally used at brahma-muhurta and associated with Ketu.
Intense late-morning raga of yearning; traditionally cathartic rather than comforting.
Austere morning colour; traditionally linked with the mendicant mood.
Austere and otherworldly; traditionally associated with vairagya and with Ketu.
Two people cannot use the same raga for the same problem
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