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rAma rAma rAma rAma rArA

ceJcuruTTi     rUpaka     tyAgarAja     telugu     kRti    
rAma rAma rAma rAma rArA sItA rAma
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O Lord Sri Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama! Please come; O Lord Sri Sita Rama!
santatambu padamulanarcintu
EkAntamunanu ninnArAdhintu sItA (rAma)
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I shall always worship Your Holy feet; I shall propitiate You in privacy.
tanivi tIra ninnu kaugilintu nAdu
dAhamella tIrci sEvintu sItA (rAma)
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I shall embrace You to my heart’s content; I shall worship You quenching all my thirsts.
kanulu callagAnu ninnu kandu nAdu
tanuvu pulakariJca meccukondu sItA (rAma)
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I shall behold You to the satiation of my eyes; I shall extol You such that my body would feel horripilation.
aDugaDuguku maDupulanandittu
ninnanusariJci mella palkanittu sItA (rAma)
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I shall reach rolls of betel leaves at every step; I shall gently make You speak by adhering to You.
kannula jADalanu telisi naDutu rAma
kaDama jAli dUramunanu viDutu sItA (rAma)
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I shall conduct myself by understanding the signal of Your eyes; O Lord Rama! I shall leave far behind all my wants.
pAmara¹ viSayAdula nE maratu rAma
nI manasunu² celimi jEsi karatu sItA (rAma)
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I shall forget the objects of senses etc. born of ignorance; O Lord Sri Rama! I shall melt Your heart by showing affection.
kosari kosari sannidhi nE kolutu rAma
kOri suraTicE¹ visarucu pilutu sItA (rAma)
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I shall serve in Your holy presence by demanding again and again; I shall call seeking You while fanning You with a fan.
toDari mEnosaGgi¹ toDalananutu ninn-
eDabAyaka bhAvamunanu talatu sItA (rAma)
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Subsequently, I shall press Your thighs by offering my body; I shall meditate with feeling without being separated from You.
sammatamunanittunu ceyi vrAlu rAma
kammani viDemimmani nannElu sItA (rAma)
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I shall give my consent in my own hand writing; O Lord Sri Rama! Please command me to give scented betel leaves.
iTlu dorakunA brahmakaina nEn-
ilanu velasi nIvE³ nEnaina sItA (rAma)
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Would such a thing be possible to attain even for Brahma that, in this World, I becoming effulgent, You have become myself.
nikkamugA tALa⁴ jAla raTTu rAma
ekkuvagA nAdu ceTTa paTTu sItA (rAma)
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Truly, I cannot bear this disgrace; O Lord Sri Rama! Hold my hand much.
jADala vinnapamu telusukOrA nI-
vADu gAka tyAgarAju vErA sItA (rAma)
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Please understand my entreaty by cue; Is this Thyagaraja different other than being Your’s?
  • 2 manasunu - manasuna : manasunu – is the appropriate word.
  • General – the whole Kriti is in the Bhava of Kanta-Asakti – love of God as that of a wife – please refer to Narada Bhakti Sutra 82. Please refer to wordings of CharaNa 11 wherein he says ‘ceTTa paTTu ’ which literally means ‘marry me’.
  • 1 pAmara viSayAdula maratu – I shall forget the ignorance-born sense objects; suraTicE visarucu pilutu – I shall call You while fanning with a fan; mEnosagi toDalananutu – I shall press Your thighs by offering my body.
    • In this regard, the following Narada Bhakti Sutra is relavant –
    • “Bhakti (described before as Parama Prema or Supreme Love) is not of the nature of lust, because it is a form of renunciation.” (7) “Such indeed was the bhakti of the Gopis of Vraja.” (21) “Had they lacked this knowledge of the object the Divinity of the object of their love, their love would have been similar to the base passion of a mistress for her paramour.” (23) “There, ie., in that profane love of the mistress for her paramour, her happiness does not at all consist in the happiness of the other.” (24) (Translationsby Swami Tyagisananda)
    •    It needs to be noted that Sri Thyagaraja has first made the statement ‘I shall forget the ignorance-born sense objects.’ Once the sense objects drop off, the love that remains cannot be seen in the light of common sexual love.
    • Please refer to ‘The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna’, Chapter 23 for complete information of what divine love means.
  • 3 nIvE nEnaina - Sarupya - “Gajendra was by the touch of the Supreme Lord instantly freed from the ignorance of being bound and had achieved the selfsame form with four arms and yellow garments (Sarupya-Mukti)….” (SB.VIII.4.6) [[http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/canto8/chapter4.html Bhagavatam]]
    • To know more about the four stages - sAlOkya, sAmIpya, sArUpya and sAyujya , the Vaishnavaite zESatva-dAsatva , please visit site - [[http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/brahma/brahma_08a.html Sarupya]]
  • 4 tALa jAla raTTu –A cry of anguish in this Charana means that the previous statement (nIvE nEnaiana - sArUpya ) is an expectation only and not an accomplishment, though the wordings seem to mean accomplishment.
Updated on 2024-11-28
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