Neevanaga nokachota nilichiyunduta ledu
Neevanuchu ganugonna nijamella neeve
Tanayaatmavalene bhootamula yaatumalella
Nanayambu ganugonna yatade neevu
Tanuganna thalligaa taganitara kaantalanu
Anaghudai madi joochu natade neevu
Satata-satyavrataachaara sampannudai
Athisayambuga melagunatade neevu
Dhruthidooli dravyambu trunimugaa bhavinchu
Hata kaamakudaina yathade neevu
Modamuna sukha duhkamulu nokkareethigaa
Naadaripuchununna yatade neevu
Vedoktamatiyaina Venkataachalanaatha!
Aadiyunu antyambu nantayunu neeve
Free transalation:
You are not confined to a specific place
But, if we realise You, then we know You are everywhere
and You are the ultimate Truth.
You are the only One who always considers all the Atmas of other living beings as Your own Atma.
You are the only One who is able to see in your mind's eye
Your own mother in all the women;
You are the only One who has an exemplary and eternal vov of speaking the Truth as Your entire wealth;You are the only One who considers riches as no more valuable
than a blade of grass, and are free of all desires.
You are the only One treating both pleasure and pain with equal nonchalance
O Lord of Venkatachala, glorified in the Vedas!
You are the beginning, You are the end, You are everything.
In this song Annamayya enumerates all the virtues of an ideal person and contends that only Lord Venkatesvara is that ideal person, who is the repository of "Samastha Kalyana Gunas" and therefore is a "Paripoorna"
An Upanishad truth is expatiated in this song. the Upanishad passage says "Asthi brahmeti ched veda; Santham evam tato viduh"
(If one thinks that God exists, then the man thinking thus becomes an existing entity)
"Asthi ityeva upalabdhasa tatvabhaavah Praseeda ti"
(Only to a man who has started with the conviction that God is existing, only then the Truth will dawn upon him)
Nammalvar also says:
"Ulan enil ulan avan uruvam ivvruvugal
Ulan alan enil avan aruvam ivvaruvugal"
If you say He is, then He exists; and all this is He only. If you say He is not, then too He exists; as the formless spirit in all"
When the poet says that God is the only One who sees the Atmas of other beings as his own Atma, it is also another Truth.
The Mahabharata says:
"Atmavath sarva bhootaani yah pasyati, sa pasyati"
i.e. one who sees other living beings as his own self is one who really sees. i.e. knowing everything.
Do unto others what you would like others to do to you. and Love thy neighbours as your self:
The chaandogya Upanishad also says "Tat Tvam Asi", That thou art
i.e. Atma is the same for all. similarly the poet stresses that one must have the same high regard for all women as one has towards one's mother.
Annamayya also lists out one of the characteristics of the Supreme Truth (Satya) being His wealth(sampada) the quality of speaking only Truth is His unequalled wealth as exemplified in Rama avatara.
He then goes on to say God being the only one who regards pleasure and pain alike like in the Bhagvad gita chapter 12 verse 13 to 19. eg. "Samah satrau cha mitre cha Tathaa maana ---avamaanayoh!
Seetoshna sukha dukheshu Samah sanga vivarjitah"
He who is the same towards foe and friend, and also in honour and dishonour, who is same in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, one who is free from attachment.... that man is dear to me;
annamayya says God is the only one who treats pleasure and pain with equal non-chalance.
Neevanuchu ganugonna nijamella neeve
Tanayaatmavalene bhootamula yaatumalella
Nanayambu ganugonna yatade neevu
Tanuganna thalligaa taganitara kaantalanu
Anaghudai madi joochu natade neevu
Satata-satyavrataachaara sampannudai
Athisayambuga melagunatade neevu
Dhruthidooli dravyambu trunimugaa bhavinchu
Hata kaamakudaina yathade neevu
Modamuna sukha duhkamulu nokkareethigaa
Naadaripuchununna yatade neevu
Vedoktamatiyaina Venkataachalanaatha!
Aadiyunu antyambu nantayunu neeve
Free transalation:
You are not confined to a specific place
But, if we realise You, then we know You are everywhere
and You are the ultimate Truth.
You are the only One who always considers all the Atmas of other living beings as Your own Atma.
You are the only One who is able to see in your mind's eye
Your own mother in all the women;
You are the only One who has an exemplary and eternal vov of speaking the Truth as Your entire wealth;You are the only One who considers riches as no more valuable
than a blade of grass, and are free of all desires.
You are the only One treating both pleasure and pain with equal nonchalance
O Lord of Venkatachala, glorified in the Vedas!
You are the beginning, You are the end, You are everything.
In this song Annamayya enumerates all the virtues of an ideal person and contends that only Lord Venkatesvara is that ideal person, who is the repository of "Samastha Kalyana Gunas" and therefore is a "Paripoorna"
An Upanishad truth is expatiated in this song. the Upanishad passage says "Asthi brahmeti ched veda; Santham evam tato viduh"
(If one thinks that God exists, then the man thinking thus becomes an existing entity)
"Asthi ityeva upalabdhasa tatvabhaavah Praseeda ti"
(Only to a man who has started with the conviction that God is existing, only then the Truth will dawn upon him)
Nammalvar also says:
"Ulan enil ulan avan uruvam ivvruvugal
Ulan alan enil avan aruvam ivvaruvugal"
If you say He is, then He exists; and all this is He only. If you say He is not, then too He exists; as the formless spirit in all"
When the poet says that God is the only One who sees the Atmas of other beings as his own Atma, it is also another Truth.
The Mahabharata says:
"Atmavath sarva bhootaani yah pasyati, sa pasyati"
i.e. one who sees other living beings as his own self is one who really sees. i.e. knowing everything.
Do unto others what you would like others to do to you. and Love thy neighbours as your self:
The chaandogya Upanishad also says "Tat Tvam Asi", That thou art
i.e. Atma is the same for all. similarly the poet stresses that one must have the same high regard for all women as one has towards one's mother.
Annamayya also lists out one of the characteristics of the Supreme Truth (Satya) being His wealth(sampada) the quality of speaking only Truth is His unequalled wealth as exemplified in Rama avatara.
He then goes on to say God being the only one who regards pleasure and pain alike like in the Bhagvad gita chapter 12 verse 13 to 19. eg. "Samah satrau cha mitre cha Tathaa maana ---avamaanayoh!
Seetoshna sukha dukheshu Samah sanga vivarjitah"
He who is the same towards foe and friend, and also in honour and dishonour, who is same in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, one who is free from attachment.... that man is dear to me;
annamayya says God is the only one who treats pleasure and pain with equal non-chalance.
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