vara rAga laya
Sahityam
Pallavi
vara rAga layajnulu tAmanucu vadarErayya¹
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O Lord! People go about prattling that they are masters of Raga and Laya.
Anupallavi
svara jAti mUrchana² bhEdamul
svAntamandu teliyakayuNDina³ (vara)
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svAntamandu teliyakayuNDina³ (vara)
Even though people might not have experienced, the differences in undulations of Sapta Svara and their derivatives, within themselves, they go about prattling that they are masters of Raga and Laya.
Charanam
dEhOdbhavambagu⁴ nAdamul⁵
divyamau praNavAkAramanE
dAhamberugani mAnavul
tyAgarAja nutayEcEru rAma (vara)
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divyamau praNavAkAramanE
dAhamberugani mAnavul
tyAgarAja nutayEcEru rAma (vara)
All the Nada emanating from the body are the energy (or thirst) of the divine OMkara; O Lord Rama praised by this Thyagaraja! those who do not know this are indeed deceiving that they are masters of sacred Raga and Laya.
Variations
- 1 vadarErayya - vadarErayya zrI rAma
- 2 mUrchana – mUrchanA
- 3 teliyakayuNDina – teliyakayuNDi
Commentary
- 4 dEhOdbhavambagu nAdamul – Nada emanating from the body - In Lalita Sahasranamam, mother is called ‘parA’, ‘pazyanti’, ‘madhyamA’, ‘vaikhari rUpA ’.
- parA – The transcendent Word - above the other lower stages of speech known as pazyanti (speech in the inaudible stage),madhyamA (speech in the middle stage of its expression) and vaikharI (uttered audible speech)”. (Translation by Swami Tapasyananda)
- For a discourse of Kanchi Paramacharya Chandrasekharendra Saraswati on ‘parA’, ‘pazyanti’, ‘madhyamA’, ‘vaikhari – please visit website – [[http://www.geocities.com/profvk/gohitvip/DPDS26-30.html Discourse]] (Page 30)
- 5 nAda – The normal rendering of the word as ‘sound’ is not very apt.
- “The etymological meaning of ‘Nada’ is ‘flow of consciousness’ rather than ‘sound’ as being crudely rendered into English. Nada, thus is not taken as a mere ‘material’ sound object, but regarded as the emanation of one’s own consciousness." Source – [[http://www.voices.no/mainissues/mi40005000186.html Nada]]