Bhimsen Joshi, Music Unto Himself, And Search Of the Eternal

There existed a common thread throughout his life, right from childhood to his personality and then as a singer of the Hindustani Classical Tradition. 
In his visually extravagant style of singing, something of an aching pain arising out of nothing, there existed a search of the unknown through music just as resistance to the throes it caused, almost the birth pangs of some creative glory. 
In fact, search of this unknown and resistance marked journey of his life: first the Guru, then the music and style and then the ultimate unknown. It became core of his personality; that is why, perhaps, he loved English action movies, and the speedily raging cars annihilating all the friction. 
Finally he was unto himself, with diminishing resistance as the age grew, and on the voyage that seemed as deep and eternal as some elongated, steady and tranquil taan he wanted to have.