Ninne Nera Namminanura O Rama
From Sahityam
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[edit] Pallavi
ninnE nera namminAnurA O rAma rAmayya Show Details | O Lord Rama! O Lord Ramayya! I have fully believed You alone. |
[edit] Anupallavi
1anni kallalanucu 2ADi pADi vEDi Show Detailspannaga zayana nE cinna tanamu nADE (ninnE) | O Lord reclining on the couch of Sesha – the snake! Considering everything (else) as false, I have fully believed You alone, since my childhood days, beseeching You by dancing and singing. |
[edit] Charanam
1. vEda zAstra purANa vidyalacE 3bhEda Show DetailsvAdamulu tIraka 4bhramayu vArala jUci (ninnE) 2. bhOgamula koraku bhuvilO rAjasammuna 5yAgAdulonariJci alayu vArala jUci (ninnE) 3. I janmamuna ninnu 6rAji jEsukona lEka rAjillarani 7tyAgarAja rAja rAghava (ninnE) | 1. Having seen people being confounded, unable to resolve their arguments about duality (and non-duality) with their (academic) knowledge of Veda, Sastra and Purana, I have fully believed You alone. 2. Having seen people wandering about, in this World, by performing sacrificial oblations etc endowed with quality of passion, for the sake of ejoyments, I have fully believed You alone. 3. Having realised that, in this life, none can shine forth without being consented by You, O Lord Raghava – master of this Thyagaraja! I have fully believed You alone. |
[edit] Variations
- 4bhramayu – bhramasE
- 7tyAgarAja rAja – tyAgarAja vandya
[edit] References
- 3bhEda vAdamulu – arguments about Bheda and Abheda. Bheda - Dvaita as propounded by Madhvacharya is considered as Bheda Vada. [Madhvacharya]
- Abheda – the Advaita Vedanta.
- 5yAgAdulonariJci – In this regard Srimad- Bhagavad-Gita, Chapter 3, verse 9 is relevant –
- “The world is bound by actions other than those performed for the sake of Yajna; do thou, therefore, O son of KuntI, perform action for Yajna alone, devoid of attachment.” (Translation by Swami Swarupananda)
[edit] Commentary
- 1anni kallalanucu – considering all to be false. This would refer to statements in caraNas 1 (ascertaining 'Reality' with mere academic knowledge of Veda, Sastra and Purana) and 2 (performance of sacrificial oblations etc for the sake of enjoyment).
- 2ADi pADi –the typical Bhagavata approach of collective singing bhajans etc to the accompaniment of music and dance. Here the word ‘dance’ does not mean mere ‘postures’ or ‘shaking body and hands’, but spontaneous, rapturous, totally involuntary movements. Such dances are recorded in the life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. However, as per bhramara-kITa nyAya, such voluntary actions too could result in achieving the aim.
- 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]
- 6ninnu rAji jEsukona lEka – Whether one follows the path of knowledge or path of karma, unless it is done with a sense of surrender, the grace of the Lord – a sine-qua-non for realisation of ‘Reality’ – will not be forthcoming.
