Nee Chittamu Nischalamu
From Sahityam
[edit] Lyrics
[edit] Pallavi
nI cittamu 1nizcalamu Show Detailsnirmalamani ninnE namminAnu | Because Your mind is steady and pure, I have believed You alone. |
[edit] Anupallavi
nA cittamu vaJcana caJcalamani Show Detailsnannu 2viDanADakumi zrI rAma (nI) | O Lord Sri Rama! Please don’t abandon me because my mind is deceptive or crafty and capricious. |
[edit] Charanam
guruvu 3cilla giJja guruvE 4bhramaramu Show DetailsguruDE bhAskaruDu guruDE bhadruDu guruDE uttama gati guruvu nIvanukoNTi 5dharanu dAsuni brOva tyAgarAja nuta (nI) | The preceptor is the clearing nut (to cleanse evils of disciple); the preceptor is the wasp (to transform the disciple like himself); the preceptor is the Sun (to dispel darkness of Aavidya); the preceptor is the auspicious one; the preceptor is the best refuge; I have assumed You to be preceptor; in order to protect this servant (of Yours) on the Earth, O Lord praised by this Thyagaraja! I have believed You alone, because Your mind is steady and pure. |
[edit] Variations
- 1nizcalamu nirmalamani – nirmalamu nizcalamani
- 2viDanADakumi – 'viDanADakumI
[edit] References
[edit] Commentary
- 3 cilla giJja – (Botanical name - strychnos potatorum) (tETrAkkoTTai - Tamizh) Clearing Nut (somewhere called Cleaning Nut). According to website [Sacred Trees] (Serial 13) tETra (tamizh) tree is the Sthala Vrksham of TiruvArur.
- “The fruit is also employed by the native practitioners of Hindostan, under the name of nirmali, as an emetic and in dysentery. They do not contain strychnine. In clearing water, one of the dried nuts is rubbed hard for a short time around the inside of the earthen water pot; on settling, the water is left pure and tasteless. The seeds contain a large quantity of an albuminous principle, upon which their virtues probably depend.” [Clearing nut]
- For names of plants in various languages, please also refer to website - [Plant Names]
- The great saint kabIr has sung in the same manner. The following verse in kabIr’s Dohas is relevant –
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gur dhObI sikh kapDa, sAbU sirjan hAr
surati silA par dhOiyE, nikasE jyOti apAr - Guru the washer man, disciple is the cloth; the name of God liken to the soap; wash the mind on foundation firm; to realize the glow of Truth.
- For complete details about Dohas of KabIr, please visit the site – [Kabir]
- 4bhramaramu - bhramara-kITa-nyAya - “The Bhramara or the wasp is said to sting the insects or the Kitas which it brings to its hive and through stinging them and poisoning them makes them feel its presence alone everywhere, at all times. The insects, so to say, meditate on the presence of the wasp, at all times, and in turn become wasps themselves thereby. This is to show that by meditating on the formula ‘Aham Brahma Asmi’ or ‘I am Brahman’ the Jiva becomes Brahman itself in the end.” [Bhramara Kita Nyaya]
- The legend about wasp turning other insectst as themselves may be based on the peculiar behaviour of wasps in laying their eggs - "wasps primarily parasitize eggs of moths and butterflies" [Wasp]
- 5dharanu dAsuni brOva – this may either be joined to the Pallavi or attached to ‘
guruvu nIvanukoNTi ’. In the latter case, it will be translated as ‘in order to protect this servant on the Earth, I have assumed You to be the preceptor’.
