nijamuga nI
Sahityam
Pallavi
nijamuga nI mahima¹ telpa lEru
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They cannot tell truly about Your might.
Anupallavi
bhajana sEyumani palikiri kAni
aja² gaja simha zRgAlAntaram(a)ni (nija)
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aja² gaja simha zRgAlAntaram(a)ni (nija)
They ask people to chant names of Lord; but they cannot tell truly about Your might which is as different as that between a goat and elephant, and lion and jackal.
Charanam
buddhiyanu³ tallini viSaya viTulaku
proddunosagi paikamulArjiJcE
siddhulu sujanula sabhaku rA nErani
peddalu zrI tyAgarAja⁴ vinuta rAma (nija)
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proddunosagi paikamulArjiJcE
siddhulu sujanula sabhaku rA nErani
peddalu zrI tyAgarAja⁴ vinuta rAma (nija)
The (so called) ‘accomplished persons’ who earn money by offering, since morning, the mother called intellect to the libertines called objects of senses and the (so called) ‘great men’ who do not happen come to the assembly of virtuous people - O Lord Rama praised by this Thyagaraja! (these people) cannot tell truly about Your might.
Renditions
Variations
- 1 mahima – mahimalu
- 4 tyAgarAja vinuta rAma – tyAgarAja vinuta
References
- 3 buddhiyanu tallini viSaya viTulaku proddunosagi – please also refer to Sri Thygaraja kriti ‘manasu viSaya naTa viTulaku’ – rAga nATakuraJji
Commentary
- 2 aja gaja simha zRgAla antara - Lord Rama’s name is Taraka mantra for delivering one from the Ocean of Wordly Existence. But, the so called preachers who are ever utilising their intellect for earning money, do not know the truth and the potency of chanting Lord’s name. How can they truthfully convey the message?
- In the kriti ‘bhakti biccamiyyavE’ rAga zaGkarAbharaNaM , Sri Thyagaraja asks ‘what avail if the capability of chanting (or reciting) and discoursing of/on epics, Agama, sciences and Veda accrue to clever persons?’