sarvalOka dayAnidhe
Sahityam
Pallavi
sarva lOka dayA nidhE sArvabhauma dAzarathE
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O Ocean of mercy for all Worlds! O Sovereign Ruler of Entire Universe! O Son of King dazaratha!
Charanams Combined
paJca bhUtamulaku nAthuDanucu nE telusukoNTi (sarva)
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I have realised that You are the Lord of five Great Elements.
bhU sutA karamu paTTi bhUmi velayu vADu nIvu (sarva)
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You are the One who shines forth on this Earth having held the hand (in marriage) of Sita – the daughter of the Earth.
nIradhipai bAga yOga¹ nidra sEyu vADu nIvu (sarva)
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You are the One nicely experiencing half-meditation-sleep in the Milk Ocean.
kamala bandhu kulaja varula kaDa tErcina vADu nIvu (sarva)
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You are the One who redeemed all those blessed ones born in the Solar – Friend of Lotus Dynasty.
pavamAna kumAruNDu² baNTaina vADu nIvu (sarva)
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You are the One to whom Anjaneya – the son of vAyu has become servitor.
antarikSa³ kEza nutAnanta nAma rUpa rahita (sarva)
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O Lord - who has no End and One devoid of name and form – praised by Lord Siva – one who has the space as His hair.
jnAna⁴ vairAgya bhakti dAnamosagu⁵ vADu nIvu (sarva)
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You are the One who bestows as gift the true knowledge, dispassion and devotion.
Agama nigamAtIta tyAgarAja vinuta carita (sarva)
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O Lord beyond the Sastras etc and Vedas! O Lord whose conduct (or deeds or life-story) is praised by this Thyagaraja.
Renditions
Variations
- 2 kumAruNDu – kumaruNDu : kumAruNDu - is the correct word.
- 5 dAnamosagu vADu – dAnamosagu vADa : dAnamosagu vADu - is the appropriate word.
References
- 1 yOga nidra - “…a cosmic sleep wherein the Lord is focused on the Infinite Reality of His own identity.” All about Lord Vishnu - [[http://www.stephen-knapp.com/lord_vishnu.htm Vishnu]]
- A kind of sleep or meditation, in which the person understands all that passes about him - an attribute supposed to belong to the gods and sages, especially to Vishnu – Tamil Dictionary (see aRi-tuyil)
- 3 antarikSa kEza – vyOmakEza – one of the names of Lord Siva. It is also the name of Mother Lalita Tripurasundari – Please refer to Lalita Sahasra NamamM (942).
- “…since the solar and the lunar rays of light that appear in the world are spoken of as the hair on the Three-eyed one, he is for that reason called Vyomakesa.” Sata Rudreeya explained by sage vyAsa to arjuna during the battle of Kurukshetra - Mahabharata, Book 7, Drona Parva - Drona Vadha Parva - Section CCII – [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m07/m07198.htm Sata Rudreeya]]
Commentary
- 4 jnAna vairAgya bhakti – ‘jnAna’ - ‘vairAgya ’ may also be taken as qualifying ‘bhakti’ meaning ‘devotion combined with JnAna and dispassion’.