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kanna taNDri

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kanna taNDri nApai
karuNa mAnakE gAsi tALanE
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O my Father! Do not withhold Your grace on me; I cannot bear the grief.
ninna¹ sEyu panulu nEDu gAka²
vErenna lEdanucu vEmArulaku (kanna)
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Because I did not think of anything other than the tasks which I routinely perfom (what I did yesterday), please do not withhold Your grace on me continuously.
eduru tAnanE³ iGgitamberigi
cedaranIka paJcEndriyamaNaci⁴ ninnu
vadala lEni dhairya-zAli kAdani⁵
madana kOTi rUpa tyAgarAja nuta (kanna)
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Please do not withhold Your grace on me because I am not such a brave person who, understanding the hint that Self is in front of me, by subduing the five sense organs, without allowing them to be scattered, would not leave You.
  • 1 ’ninna - ninnu’; ’ninna' is the appropriate word.

  • 2 being content with following daily routine only. In the Western Dances, fox-trot is a famous dance – this is also known as ‘on the spot’ dance. While we seem to stepping back and forth, we ultimately remain where we were. Similarly, the net result of our daily routines is that ‘to-day we are where we were yesterday’.

  • 3 Srimad-Bhagavad-GIta, Chapter 7 is relevant –

  • “At the end of many births, the man of wisdom takes refuge in Me, realising that all this is Vasudeva (the innermost Self). Very rare is that great soul.” (Translation by Swami Swarupananda)

  • As per [http://www.mypurohith.com/Rituals/VISHNU_SAHASRANAAM.asp Vishnu Sahasranama] (332) – vAsudEva means –

  • “One who is at once both vAsu and dEva . vAsu means ‘One who dwells in the physical equipments of all living creatures as its indweller (Jeeva)’; dEva means ‘One who revels or One who illumines’. Thus, vAsudEva means ‘One who lives in the physical equipment as though conditioned by them, and yet, who is the Vital Consciousness in the light of which every experience is illumined. The Lord is the One who dwells in all things of the universe and He is at once the Supporter of the entire world.

  • Also, directly, it can be taken to mean, One who is born as the Son of Sri Vasudeva in the Jail of Kamsa, the Blue-Boy of Brindaavana. He is called Vaasu as He veils Himself with His own Maayaa; Deva means ‘He who sports, wishes to conquer, conducts, shines, creates and moves’. In the Udyoga Parva of Mahabharata, we read, ‘Like the Sun with his rays I am covering (Deva) in all beings and hence, I am called Vaasudeva’.

  • Vishnupurana says, ‘‘as He resides everywhere in and through all things, He is termed Vaasudeva’. All beings remain in the Supreme, and He in all being and hence, the Omnipresent is called the Vaasudeva.” (Meanings based on commentary of Adi Sankaracharya)

  • 4 eduru tAnanE iGgitamerigi cedaranIka paJcEndriyamaNaci – The senses (Panchendriya) seek gratification from external objects. Once all the external objects are resolved as vAsudEva – eduru tAnu – there is no scope of senses to be scattered (cedaru ) in pursuit of gratification. As a consequence, the senses get subdued (aNaci ).

  • 5 dhairya-zAli kAdani this can be interpreted in two ways – ‘probably you think that I am not brave enough to …’ and ‘because I am not brave enough to…’ Though both make sense in the context, the second meaning seems to be more appropriate because of the Anupallavi word ‘vEmArulaku ’ – ‘continuously’ – that Lord is withholding His grace continuously. The Lord being the Vasudeva, He knows what the capability of His devotee is and there is no need for the devotee to assure Him of that.

  • The Kathopanishad (II.i.1) – [http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/definitions/Atman.htm parAJci khAni ] – explains why we always look outward and not inward.

Updated on 2024-11-26
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