swamiyai vara soladi.

1.Aneyu karadare, adhimoola bandanthe,
Ajamilanu karedhare Narayana bandanthe


2.Adaviyalli Dhruva raya karedare Vasudeva bandanthe,
SAbheyalli DRaupadi karedare Sri Krishna bandanthe


3.Ninna dasara dasanu na karadare,
Yenna palisa beku , Purndhara vittala



1.Like the primeval God coming when an elephant called,
Like The God Narayana came when Ajamila called.

2. Like the coming of Vasudeva when Druva called him in the forest
Like Sri Krishna coming when Draupadi called him in the court

3. If I your slave of slaves call you ,
You should protect me says Purandara Vittala



Pallavi

Ba ba ranga bhujanga shayana,
Komalanga krupanga abhanga

Anupallavi

Ba ba yenna antharanga mallara gaja singa,
Duritha bhava paanga

Charanam

1.Ubaya kaveriya madhya nivasa,
Abhaya dayaka , manda hasa,
SAbheyolu sathivala kaydha ullasa,
Ipraja varada , hey Srinivasa.

2.Yelu prakarada malike manayolage , kaliya deyvara deva,
Sola sasira gopiya ralida ereyalu lokada janaranu kava.
3.Sampraripita dambara hitha mana ,

Ambhujadha lagipa nethra,
Shanka Chakra dara purandara vittala,
Thumburu Narada grutha stotra,


Pallavi

Come, Come Ranga who sleeps on a snake,
Who is pretty, shows mercy and is sung about.

Anupallavi

Come come, Oh lion like wrestler to the elephant,
Oh God who quickly ends miseries of life.

Charanam

1. God who lives between two branches of Cauvery,
God who gives protection, God who smiles prettily,
Oh pleasant God waited for girls in the crowd,
Oh God who blesses all, Oh God in whom Lakshmi lives.

2. Oh Black god who lived in the house,
Surrounded by seven enclosures,
Oh god who is with sixteen thousand Gopis making sound,
Please protect the people of the world.

3. Oh God who has the good of devotes who offer their mind to you,
Oh God who has eyes like lotus flowers,
Oh Purandara Vittala holding a conch and a wheel,
Oh God who is praised by Dumburu and Narada.




Pallavi
Samiyai vara Cholladi , sakhiye,
Kumara bhumi pugazhum Shivakami magizhum balan

Anupallavi
Thamadam sheyalagumo , idhu samyam ,
Kaman kanai thoduthu kalanga cheigiraridi

Charanam
Sholladi manam kallodi jalam chevadhu yenadi

1.Ma mathi mukhattai kana vendum yendru

2. Kalla thanamum kondu , mella nadandhu vandhu,
Thalladi thalladi valli mel vizhundavarukku

3.Vanna mamayil yeri ingu vara yennama, yemathama,
Indha mannum vinum yeno chuzaluthadi,
Kannum urangathu kathu mirppen yendru

4.Oru naal yen kanavinil vanthanadi , perum vinai thanadi,
Karunai ullam arul puriyum endru thavam irundum oru payan illayadi,
Ilam paruva kalam thirumba varumodi ,
Manam urugi vazhum nilai arumodi,
Ithu tharum thiru pazhani malayil uraibhavanai ,
Maruvidave iru karam thudikkuthadi.


Pallavi

Oh friend, Please request the God to come,
The God who is praised in land of Muruga,
Who is the lad who makes Goddess Shivakami happy,

Anupallavi

Should you cause delay, for at this time,
He makes me confused by sending arrows of god of love,

Charanam

Tell me, is his heart stone , Why is he doing these tricks

1.With a desire to see the full moon like face

2.The one with deceit in his mind , he walked and came slowly,
And tottered and tottered and fell on Goddess Valli

3.Is he thinking of coming here riding on the coloured peacock, is it deceit,
Somehow this earth and sky seem to rotate .
And the eyes tell that they will wait without sleeping.

4. One day he came in my dream , it was a great event,
There was no use of doing penance thinking that ,
His merciful mind will one day shower his grace,
Will the time of early youth come again?
Will the state of living with a melted mind cease?
And my hands are shivering to hug,
The one living on Pazhani mountain and is giving me this.



Pallavi

Deva Banda, Namma Swami Bandano
Devara deva Shikhamani Bandano
Deva Banda Namma Swami

Anupallavi

Uraga Sayana Banda
Garuda Gamana Banda
Naragolidava Banda
Narayana Banda

Chararanam

1.Mandarodhara Banda,
Mamanohara Banda,
Brindavana pathi Govinda bandano,
Nakraharanu banda, Chakradharanu Banda,
Akrooragolida Trivikrama bandhano


2.Pakshi vahana Banda
Lakshmanagraja Banda
Akshaya phalada sri Lakshmi Ramana Banda
Nigama kochara Banda
Nithya Trupathanu Banda
Nagemuka purandara vittala Bandhano


Pallavi

God came , our Lord has come
The greatest god of gods came
The crest jewel has come
God came, our Lord has come

Anupallavi

He who sleeps on the snake has come
He who travels on Garuda has come
The one who blessed nara(Arjuna) has come
Narayana has come

Charanam
1.He who lifted the Mandara mountain has come,
He who stole the mind of Lakshmi has come,
The Govinda who is the Lord of Brindavana has come,
The killer of the crocodile has come,
The holder of the divine Chakra has come,
The one who blessed Akroora has come,
The God Trivikrama has come.

2.He who rides the bird has come,
He who is the elder brother of Lakshmana has come,
The giver of endless benefits who pleases Lakshmi has come
He came for making a conclusion
He who cannot be seen even by Vedas has come
The ever cheerful Purandara Vittala has come.

kelathi mama hrudahye

Two saints....separated by more than a thousand years, two completely different works and yet, the more we look at them, the more alike they seem...both in content and in wording.
Adi Shankara has a written a prakarana grantha (preliminary text) on Vedanta called Atma Bodha. In this work of 68 verses, there is one verse (verse 50) where he has used the metaphor of the Ramayana.
Sadashiva Brahmendra was a saint and composer who lived in the 18th century. One of his famous compositions, which is often sung in Carnatic music concerts is the piece "khelati mama hridaye". This composition too uses the analogy of the Ramayana.
I

khelati mama hridaye raamah, 
khelati mama hridaye.......
moha mahaarnava taaraka kaari
raaga-dvesha mukhaasura maari
shaanti videha suta sahachaari
daharaayodhya nagara vihaari
paramahamsa saamraajyodhaari
satya gnyaanaananda shareeri 
khelati mama hridaye.......


Rama dances (khelati) in my heart (mama hridaye). 
He is the one who helps me cross (taaraka kaari) the huge ocean of delusion (moha mahaarnava).
He is the one who helps to destroy asuras in the form of my own raaga-dveshas.
With this, I regain peace (shaanti). Here, Sita is equated with peace. A special epithet is used for her- She is Vaidehi, "videha suta", princess of the Kingdom of Videha. (Sita's father Janaka was well known as a grihastha gnyaani. And as videha suta, Sita is an inheritor of that peace.)
There after, I shall live happily (vihaari) in Ayodhya, that city which can never be destroyed (yoddhum ashakyaa ayodhya). Where is this Ayodhya?  It is in my own heart/mind (hence, dahara ayodhya).
And what kind of place is this Ayodhya? It is a heart/mind where dharma flourishes. An empire (saamraajya) where noble people (paramahamsas/sanyasis/noble thoughts) are protected.
Finally, Rama, who helps me accomplish all this, and who dances in my heart, what is his nature? How does he look? He is  "satya-gnyaana-aananda shareeri". That Rama is my own Self, my Higher Nature, Atma whose swarupa is "satyam-gnyaanam-anantam" as the Upanishads declare.


Teertvaa moha mahaarnavam
hatva raaga-dveshaadi raakshasaan
yogi shaanti samaayuktah
Aatmaaraamo viraajatey

This verse presents the journey of a spiritual aspirant using the metaphor of the Ramayana.
"Crossing (teertvaa) the ocean of delusion (moha mahaarnavam), and having destroyed (hatva) the raakshasaas in the form of binding likes and dislikes (raaga dvesha), the yogi (the qualified spiritual aspirant) gets united (samaayuktah) with peace (shaanti) and shines/enjoys (viraajatey) as the Self (aatma raama)".

The imagery is self explanatory. The jeeva (the individual) is the Self in reality (atma-rama). Peace (shanti) is his very nature, his better-half (Sita), as it were. Ravana comes in the form of binding likes and dislikes (raaga-dvesha) and loots this peace away. Peace recedes even further...and lies imprisoned beyond an ocean of delusion (moha mahaarnavam).  Alas! The individual gropes for peace in the forest of samsara.
How must he regain his exalted, pristine status? Every seeker has to go through the story of the Ramayana as a personal, subjective journey.

It is easy to see how similar these two poems are. Sadashiva Brahmendra seems to have had this Atma Bodha verse in mind and he has embellished it with a few more ideas. In keeping with this presentation of the Ramayana as a personal journey.

work.

Let us work as we pray for work is the body's best prayer to the divine.
life's master word is work, with this magic word in one's heart all things are possible. It is the touch stone of progress and the key to success.

Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You've all that the greatest of men have had,
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise.


The Gita's yoga consists in the offering of one's work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.

The only work that spiritually purifies is that which is done without personal motives, without desire for fame or public recognition or worldly greatness, without insistence on one's own mental motives or vital lusts and demands or physical preferences, without vanity or crude self-assertion or claim for position or prestige, done for the sake of the Divine alone and at the command of the Divine. All work done in an egoistic spirit, however good for people in the world of the Ignorance, is of no avail to the seeker of the yoga.

Skill in works will come when there is the opening in the physical mind and the body. 

In work there must be a rule and discipline and as much punctuality as possible in regard to time.
To be regular is a great force. one becomes master of ones time and ones movements.
remember always that there is magic in the early dawn brahma murtham. 
also watch youtube discussion of the magic of 3:40 by sadguru.

one must experience it to know it for sure.

surrender

Pallavi:
Arasi nannu gaachinataniki saranu
Paramu nihamu nele pathikini saranu

Charanam1:
Vedamu dechhinatti vibhuniki saranu
Aadi moola mante vachhinathaniki saranu
Yedasa thaanaiyunna eetaniki saranu
Sreedevi magadaina sree pathiki saranu

Charanam2:
Andariki pranamaina aathaniki saranu
mundu moodu moorthula murthiki saranu
dindupadi devathala devuniki saranu
andi minnu nelanekamainataniki saranu

Charanam3:
Thaane chaithanyamaina daivaanaku Saranu
Naanaa brahmandaala naathuniki saranu
anuka sree venkatadri yandu nundi varamulu
deenula kindarikichhe devuniki saranu

to the one who is always protecting me to him i surrender
to the lord who rules the spiritual and the material to him i surrender

to the great master who brought back the Vedas to him i surrender
to the primordial god that pervades to the core to him i surrender......

anni maMtramulu niMdE aavahiMchenu
vennatO naaku galige vEMkaTESu maMtramu ||

naaraduMDu japiyiMche naaraayaNa maMtramu
chEre prahlaaduDu naarasiMha maMtramu |
kOri vibheeShaNuMDu chEkone raama maMtramu
vEre naaku galige vEMkaTESu maMtramu ||

raMgagu vaasudEva maMtramu dhruvuMDu japiyiMche
naMga viMve kRuShNa maMtra marjunuMDunu |
muMgiTa viShNu maMtramu mogi SukuDu paThiMche
viMgaDamai naaku nabbe vEMkaTESu maMtramu ||

inni maMtramula kella iMdiraa naadhuMDe guri
pannina didiye para brahma maMtramu |
nannugaava kalige bO naaku guru Diyyagaanu
vennela vaMTidi Sree vEMkaTESu maMtramu ||

narada chanted narayana mantra

prahalada did narasimha mantra

vibhishana asked for rama mantra

I got Venkatesa mantra......

pa|| aMtayu nIvE hari puMDarIkAkSha | ceMta nAku nIvE SrIraGurAma ||

ca|| kulamunu nIvE gOviMduDA nA | kalimiyu nIvE karuNAnidhi |

talapunu nIvE dharaNIdhara nA | nelavunu nIvE nIrajanABa ||

ca|| tanuvunu nIvE dAmOdara nA | manikiyu nIvE madhusUdana |

vinikiyu nIvE viTThaluDA nA | venakamuMdu nIvE viShNu dEvuDA ||

ca|| puTTugu nIvE puruShOttama | kona naTTanaDumu nIvE nArAyaNa |

iTTE SrI veMkaTESvaruDA nAku | neTTana gati iMka nIvE nIvE ||

You are my cast

you are my wealth

you are my thoughts

you are my home.

anklet.

vedic sacrifices.

sing

Sing.
Sing a song.
Sing out loud, sing out strong.
Sing of good things, not bad.
Sing of happy, not sad.
Sing.
Sing a song.
Make it simple to last your whole life long.
Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear.
Just sing.
Sing a song.

R and R