Growing as a RASIKA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Music forum , forum is a platform where people of same idea come together for discussions , music forum , is a place where musicians , lovers of music come together to discuss on promoting classical music among youth .Why iam with music forum ????? i have been listening to classical music from 1997 , though in my family all of them have an ear to music , nobody is technically qualified . now this is trhe most important doubt many of them have in their minds do u have to know everything in the true technical aspect , before attending the concerts ... will people look down at me , if i dont find out ragas , or keep saying sabash ......, or bale......or critisise some artist. this has become a fashion now to criticise some artist...., the only answer to this is , is a big NO..... , to go to a carnatic concert , u have to just have an ear for this music , ofcourse classical music is just not entertainment , it is beyond that it has a lot of aesthetics , and is rich in tradition.But we can get the grip of it only by listening to it more and more .once we start hearing , slowly our ears get tuned , when i started hearing music all ragas sounded the same , some popular kritis sounded good to me , but i used wait for tukkadas , sometimes very long alapanas or virutams used to test my patience. Slowly I started enjoying the way different artists , present a concert i took a small note book wrote the kriti , came back and searched for ragams , started getting hold of it . Then i started identifying ragams like varali , sahana and the list started growing , today iam able to identify most of the common ragams,now i look forward to raga alapanas even the grahabedam , or sruti bedams in a concert , though i cannot hold it completly.I enjoy the swift change in the ragams , music is now an eternal part of my life , and carnatic music has thought me so much of values , as an youngster , i now want my friends and others uninitiated to carnatic music to listen to this wonderful art , according to me good music is a form of meditation.I want all of them to have this beautiful experince of Growing as a rasika!!!!!!!!!!