About Guruji

Guruji Sri AS Raghavan  has had a life of miracles. He was a man extraordinary, recognized by one and all as superhuman and evolved soul.

Early in life he had the kataksham of Thirucchendur Murugan after which a polio afflicted crippled child started walking overnight.

Kanchi Maha periyavaa has blessed him several times. During the Arunigirinathar stamp release function , there were several hurdles.From Kanchipuram a person landed up with prasadam and assuring message from maha periyavaa that all will be well.It was sheer divine grace that the function went off without any glitches.

Sringeri periyavas personally blessed and conducted Guruji’s sashtiabdapoorthy function in the mutt under his supervision.He has said ‘ Raghavan is not an ordinary  soul. He is a madaathipathi.’

Jayendra saraswati swami from Kanchi mutt conferred the title of ‘Thiruppugazh Isai Chakravarthi’.

Krupananda Warriar has said ‘Raghavan is sakshaath murugan’.

Ki Vaa Ja had high regards for Guruji and always mentioned his  name in his speeches.

Various swamijis like Chidananda, Dayananda Saraswati, Senthil Thuravi, saadhuram

and several others had shown their admiration considering him ‘an evoleved extraordinary soul’

Sri R Venkatraman,the then President of India ,  had invited Guruji to the Rashtrapathi Bhavan several times for his bhajans.

Srimathi DK Pattamal-‘ you can become a millionare overnight if you commercialise Thiruppugazh .’

His wife and children feel all the music and setting ragam and thaalam happened only with divine will as they have never seen him practicing or singing.

There have been a few hundred disciples but a handful of them followed his music pattern, and way of life , teachings to the last letter. These staunch disciples have taken the movement far and wide and in a span of 60 years taken it the world over.

Technology and the great efforts of some have made the 505 songs , set to Ragam and thaalam,Saved for the generations to come.

His method of teaching  and ability to bring out the best even in the new comers and the un initiated has attracted several.His ability to pour in the bhakthi bhaava, breaking up the words in the right places , so that the thaalam just falls in the right place effectively. He created music of very high quality and bhakthi bhaava of the  highest order that even the best student would reproduce only 50 %. Even that would be a great achievement.

Thousands of young and old are spending their spare time usefully learning and teaching THIRUPPUGAZH without whiling away their time.

This movement has appealed to the mass – irrespective of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam or Kannada origin – because of the high quality of music , devotion and bhakthi bhaava .