tattvamerug
Sahityam
Pallavi
tattvameruga taramA para
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Is it in one’s capacity to realise the supreme reality?
Anupallavi
tattvamasiyanu vAkyArthamu¹
rAma nIvanu para (tattvameruga) \t
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rAma nIvanu para (tattvameruga) \t
O Rama! Is it in one’s capacity to realise the supreme reality that You are indeed the meaning of the sacred statement known as ‘tat-tvam-asi’?
Charanam
tAmasa rAjasa² guNamula
tannukOLLu³ pOdayA
rAma bhaktuDaina tyAgarAja
vinuta vEda zAstra (tattvameruga)\t
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tannukOLLu³ pOdayA
rAma bhaktuDaina tyAgarAja
vinuta vEda zAstra (tattvameruga)\t
The effects of inertial and active principles will never cease; O Lord well praised by this Thyagaraja who is the devotee of Sri Rama! is it in one’s capacity to realise the supreme reality as brought out in Vedas and Sastras?
Commentary
- 1 vAkyArthamu nIvanu – Sri Thyagaraja states that the word ‘tat’ in the Mahavakya indeed refers to the Lord Sri Rama.
- 2
tAmasa rAjasa
- cf. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, verses 65 and 66.
- Sri Thyagaraja seems to have deliberately left out the ‘sattva guNa ’ because, as brought out in Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, verse 6, sattva guNa is conducive to enquiry which leads to ultimate apprehension of the truth.
- 3 tannukOLLu – cf. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, verse 11.
Renditions
- [http://sangeethamshare.org/ramanujam/TK-Rangachari/TKR-MSG-KVI/07TATWAMERUGA.mp3 T.K. Rangachari] (mp3)