nI daya kalguTE

nI daya kalguTE bhAgyamani
nijamuganEla tOcadO
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Why wouldn’t it truly occur to people that attaining Your grace is indeed the real fortune?
nAda rUpa nIrada sannibha dina
nAthAnvaya bhUSaNa mRdu bhASaNa (nI)
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O Embodiment of Nada! O Lord resembling the rain-cloud! O Adornment of the Solar – Lord of Day – dynasty! O Lord who is soft spoken!
avivEkulaina dAra tanayulan-
anudinamunu kalasi
bhava sAgaramununIda lEka
bhayamuna ceyyalasi
avanIzula kAci sukhamu
lEkanAyAsamu solasi
vividhamulagu nI mAya lOpala
tagilina tanakIyavadhulanu telisi (nI)
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Every-day (a) being entangled by wife and children who have no discrimination, (b) having become fatigued due to fear of not being able to swim the Ocean of Worldly Existence, (c) languishing due to tiredness of not deriving any comfort by waiting on the Kings – Lords of Earth, (d) even after knowing that these troubles have come about for self who is caught in the varied nature of Your delusion, why wouldn’t it truly occur to people that attaining Your grace is indeed the real fortune?
vEga lEci tAnati lObhi janula
vembaDigA tirigi
rOgiyai tA kOrina kOrkelu
rOyaka mEnu karagi
bhOga bhAgyamula korakanya surula
bhU surula kOri tirigi
E gatiyu lEkayI sukhambuliTlani
tana madini tAnerigi (nI)
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nAga nAyaka zayanEndu dina
nAtha nayana sItAGka
yOgi vandita padAravinda¹
yuga zaraNAkaLaGka
rAga lObha madAdula koTTi
rakSiJcE birudAGka
tyAgarAja pUjita raghu nAyaka
tArakamani teliyu niz²-zaGka (nI)
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Getting up early, (a) one self roaming behind very miserly persons and thus having become sick, (b) the body having become emaciated by not abandoning what one desired, (c) having no recourse even after wandering after other celestials and Brahmins for the sake of enjoyments and wealth, why wouldn’t it truly occur to people that attaining Your grace is indeed the real fortune, by himself understanding in his mind that these comforts are of this nature only ?
  • 1 padAravinda – ‘pAdAravinda .
  • 2 niz-zaGka – This could be taken as an epithet of Lord also (One who has no doubt). However, in view of the preceding word ‘teliyu ’ (discernible), it has been translated as ‘without doubt discernible’.