enta muddO
Sahityam
Pallavi
enta muddO enta sogasO
evari valla varNimpa tagunE
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evari valla varNimpa tagunE
How charming and how pretty!
By whom is it possible to describe it?
Anupallavi
enta vAralaina kAni kAma¹
cintAkrAntu-lainAru
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cintAkrAntu-lainAru
No matter how great people are,
they became besieged by thoughts of lust!
Charanam
atta mIda kanulAsaku dAsulai²
satta bhagavata vEsulairi
dutta pAla ruci³ teliyu sAmyamE
dhurINuDau tyAgarAja nutuDu (enta)
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satta bhagavata vEsulairi
dutta pAla ruci³ teliyu sAmyamE
dhurINuDau tyAgarAja nutuDu (enta)
Ever fearing their mothers-in-law, having become slaves to lust,
(but) they put on the appearance of true devotees of the Lord;
it is indeed like the pot knowing the taste of its contents – milk; how charming and how pretty is the Lord - praised by this Thyagaraja – who bears burden of the Universe! By whom is it possible to describe it?
it is indeed like the pot knowing the taste of its contents – milk; how charming and how pretty is the Lord - praised by this Thyagaraja – who bears burden of the Universe! By whom is it possible to describe it?
Renditions
Variations
- 1 kAma – kAnta
Commentary
- 2 atta mIda kanulu – being slave to lust, and thence to the wife, one does not dare transgress orders of mother-in-law. Therefore, whatever they do, they watch whether it has the approval of their mothers-in-law.
- 3
dutta pAla ruci
– Container cannot know the taste of its contents. Tamil siddhar ‘siva vAkkiyar’ has stated same as under -
- suTTa saTTi saTTuvam kaRiccuvaiyaRiyumO’ – will the clay pot and ladle know the taste of curry? [[http://www.thamizham.net/web041107/bn81.htm Siddhar Vakkiyam]]
- When read in conjunction with Anupallavi wordings – ‘minds besieged by lust’ (kAma cintAkrAntulu ), this would mean that those whose minds are beseiged by lust – but pretend to be true devotees - cannot know the beauty of indwelling Lord. Similar sentiment is expressed in the kRti ‘rAma nIyeDa’ – rAga karaharapriya –
- “Can a person playing the role of a woman know anything about the conduct of a chaste woman?”
- Sri Thyagaraja defines the true devotee in the Kriti ‘bhakuni cAritramu’ – rAga bEgaDa as follows –
- “Listen to the conduct of the devotee of Lord Sitarama who, devoid of all attachments, seeking (the Indwelling Lord) by himself, attains bliss by becoming Living Free.”