Sunday, 22 September 2019

Selective translation of poetry of Mahakavi Dr Kuvempu (kupplli venkatappa puttappa),world poet, national Poet, Jnanapeeta awardee ,rasa rushi, kalpa kavi (poet of epochs) by Dr. Raveendra Hosadurga.

 Kuvempu  samagra kavya  volume2:
Poetry collection’anikethana’:
Flower Samadhi(trance) in flower garden:
Flower!flower! flower! Flower!
My death is in merudanda
Snake opening it’s coil
Love blossoming of joy’s pain
Blossoming in brain flower!
That this ,surrounding   everywhere
Flower!flower! flower! Flower!
Breath body all flower!

Where red everything is red?
Where everything is blue
Colourful  this kuvempu
Becoming himself seing vision(view)
As garden of flowers
Floating in colourful sea
Beyond death,drinking amrutha
Flower! Flower!flower! flower!
Flower! Flower!flower! flower!.........
………………………end…………………….
Alaru=flowersoga=sukha=joy,safe.
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Meditation yogi in garden:
Come ,do namaskarams
Here beautiful form god is flower  wearer
Colour colour blessing
  Not mere garden,   this  is flower kasha!
See what you say   this kasha thumbe?
By feeling  you won’t believe by loving
Red red:
Love of god downing coming rasa rama bridge!
See this bush,s white flower’s chest:
 Like falls giving light,amrytha’s
Bringing   power (satva)of heaven
Incarnating for this world  chariot tip kethu!
False is this blue flower  upset;
In real, divine uterus  of devaki
Garden of meditate
Given to sri krishna’s happening  yoga situation!
…………………………………end………………………………
Kallola=upset,abbi=falls,
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In flower garden:
In form of colour god’s love
Has kissed eye!
Image lip creation’s  heart rathi
In play leaf of  flame colour
Has reflected  lip fire!

In poet’s heart joy of interest(shraddha)
Suddenly boiling  like fire  fountain
Sea of prana(life) is shining!

This flower garden is temple!
Yogic view of rasa achievement!
Life is this flower hunt of god!
Has embraced  three worlds!
This honey meals of god ‘s enjoyment
Has broken  root of thirst!
Has gone beyond senses!
Has dried up sea of ‘I’!
……………………….end…………………………..
Oosta=lip,bimba=symbol,statue.image=statue,symbol.
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Rasa experience  that silence  palace of poetry:
In lap of mother nature
In forest of malnad
Where poet alone walks
Word’s are jail.

In residence of hills 
dense forest has spread
tender  sunlight gold play
embracing green sea,
birds song crores of waves
has become  divine door
rasa experience silence that is
palace of poetry!
……………………..end…………………………
Veechi=waves.
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In friendship of birds:
In friendship of birds
Wings appear to me;
Flies  heart  bird
To end of worlds!

Flying to end of world
(to residence  of    crop of  rasa )
Attacks like arrow
To milk honey bunch!

There rises sun:
But not this ravi!
There sings poet:
But not  this poet!

If  listened ,heart bird
Sings silence only!
Dumb beautiful eye
Disturbs chest!
……………………….end……………….
Moon’s boat:
In sky moon’s boat
Was swimming;
Slow  air was blowing 
slowly slowly.
Word(song) of tene bird
Was hearing;
From sky moonlight honey
Was   falling!

Siting in boat of moon
In screen of cloud sky
Swimming swimming
Mixing in cool air
In forest of  hills
blowing blowing

tene bird rising wing
joining melodius wave of song
flying,flying;
pouring moon sqeezing   honey
myself uniting with moonlight
pouring,pouring.(leaking)

mood of  poet’s  jeevarasa(life juice)
in world prana  pulse
has responded;
moonlight of meditation this (iha) and other(paraP world
has binded;
self point had met 
shiva ocean;
tearful poet’s heart
lifting arathi to kala  rathi
had thanked!
…………………..end………………...
Hili=sqeezing and removing rasa,to destroy,tu kill,to cut.
Pere=snake’s   layer(sheeth)(pare).
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Symbol witness:
World mother ‘s blessibg’s
Sky akshatha this bellkki(white bird);
In front of house only in land
as though thrown white rice!
Together aha are moving
Line line line this milk dot(star)!

To insect life of soil life
Brining trouble
Being caught in davani(vale)  of
Workers  who earn for stomach sake
Are moving really to you
Group line baka bird:
For me  they are for experience of  one more  different
Symbol witness!
………………………………end………………………….
Sankula=group,akshatha=manthrakshatha(holy rice grain).
…………………………………………………………………………………….
Assurance of mother:
Why boredom,to you also?
Here only I ampresent ,child!

For you  came as this  green
Grass……
Again……
Again as dew drop
Stood…….
Appearing as sun on that side,
On this side playing as ray
See here twinkling
In front of you only!
Give arms of imagination ,child:
Embrace beautiful body  ,child
In lip of emotion,pressing mother’s chest
will drink joy of breast feeding  and laugh!

Here only I am child!
Why boredom to you ,also?
………………………end………………………………
Laugh lovely child:
Laugh laugh,laugh
O lovely child!
Bud faced you laughing
Flower is enemy of world
Spark of chest,smoke of mind
All going,life enlighting
Cloudless ,clear sky
Blue is kind of life!
Laugh laugh laugh
O lovely  child!
……………………….end……………………………
Will miss house good mind desire?:
My this request,in front of authority
Have I to request guru?
If submitted to you , is submitted to  whole moving –nonmooving
Is it needed to tell you kalpatharu?

If you mind earth vibrates in sky
Changes path of  sun and moon!
Your grace moves a little on that side nodding
Will miss house my good desire?
………………………………end……………………………
Elasu=to desire,to make mind.
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Rich feet:
Hold,hold strong,hold:
Protects this feet.
This is padi(offer) to guru
This is god’s temple;
Keep forehead,do namaskarams
Your head becomes holy!

This is forest of life(bhava)
Spark of forest fire,
This is word of good knowledge
Good manthras words:
Bed of vaikunta
Border of kailasa
Keep forehead do namaskarams
your head becomes ashrama!

To submit to it earn(labour)
To submit this die!
Under this flower
You at six feet
Eternal joy’s
Real honey
God’s sweet  (honey)  desire,drink!
Bath is worship,thirtha (holy water) is drink!
Rasa of devotion drink!
Believe in drink honey of  interes!t
Fill up amrutha of love and drink!
…………………………………end…………………………..
Daavagni=forest fire,eentu=drink,
 padi=a measure  given in form of rice,vegetables as wages..
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I am example:
I am example
Generous grace is non- miser!
Lifting cloud above ,erected forest  hill
Giving mother
Tying to hill and hill cradle song
Swinging!
Land and skylungs run
Giving breath
In pulse and pulse forests itself
Had made to flood!
Beyond enjoyment(bhoga) ocean
On yoga waves
Was lion peeta(chair)!
In poetry world ground,poor god post
Has rised to throne!
………………………end………………………………
Vele=bank of sea,border,   sea  wave.
Esagu= do
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Come ,awaken guru!:
 Awaken guru.in ray of consciousness feet,
Opening  blossoming my heart eye;
Come moov in spirit to spread my feathers
Prana(life) beak of fire bird;
Twinkle and come in mind,solid dark of thamas you are
Flowing giving darshan  (vision)  hiden witness!

As flood of light come enlight,in body of jada(non living)
As to show body of  consciousness sea,
As power downing (reducing) interest of semses
To rise to beyond sense of  devotion;
Beyond speech mind come down as silence
Little of mine joining you.
Your that much absorbing absorbing my that much!
………………………………..end…………………………………..
Anithu=that much,  inithu=this much,guhya=hiden,
pari=way, to go forward, to flow,run,   thamas=darkness,
chanchu=beak of bird
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Interest of deeksha(oath):
Those who are seen ,I have seen them blessed:
to see who are seen  is also liberating punya!

Gold ornament’s value I was not knowing
In spite of gold up to this I was poor  only
I had forgotten the treasure, who had given athma(self) to me!

What a such guru’s     grace   theertha  I bathed
What kind of cradle of  cradle of guru’s grace I have slept
By guru’s grace I experienced  and came to know today!

Kalpa tree  to kamadhenu to whom you have become pillar I hahe become calf:
Sachchidananda eternal  himself supreme gurudeva  divine teaching
Daily daily who is true,at feet bottom I surrendered
Saw guru,seing touching feet
Taking deeksha I became blessed!
…………………………..end……………………………
Kambha=pillar,inithu=a little,kadavara=hiden treasure,gold.
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Is there fear of ashiva  to interest(sincerity,shraddha):
You are all welfare(all good)
For supreme  welfare(good)
Expansion of universe
Indulging in play
To experience of consciousness
Fear of amangala(bad)

 In middle of all destruction
Optimist is  shraddha:
Like dream   seing sleep
Like this avidya(knowledgeless)
Itself is rasa leela(rasa play)
After awakening!
………………………end………………………….
Beyond senses:
On that day
By wave wave (thana)song
 Blowd forests:

Today as song of forests
Wave wave(thana) has appeared!

Wave,wave,wave,hill river stream
Are appearing in raga
Mountains    like  words
Becoming song,becoming singable
Are rushing in speed!

In tube tube tube
In dot dot blood
Valley,hill,forest, line(series)
Are responding  in yoga!
………………..end………………………………
O my spirit  by national poet Dr Kuvempu
                                              
O my spirit                                                                             
you become residenceless |                        
going beyond names and forms
playing crores of names
sword of  feelings splitting chest|

throwing dust of hundreds of castes
going beyond all principle
rising up  without   dirfctions|

don’t stop anywhere
don’t build  house for ever
 don’t reach end at all
·         O    be infinet |
Infinet becoming infinet itself
Is becoming   eternal  yogi;
 Uyou infinet become infinet:
Become become become  become |

O my spirit,
You become residenceless!
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Retired liberated’s desire:
 Got  liberated today got liberated
While living(jeevanmuktha)-guru
By your divine grace!

Work in one hand;feet in one hand;
Came doing both karma and worship
Since today in both hands holding your feet
To  undertake  achievement, bless father!

Adjunct(upadhi) of position,adjunct of authority
Adjunct of honour adjunct of  insult(dis honour)
Adjunct of education,adjunct of fame
Poets,writers,at last kannada adjunct
Came to submit all to your feet
Hold hand and grace,bless,father!

When you hold my hand,I holding your leg
In journey (thippa thippane(………………….)moov forward
On that day giving  deeksha,gave courage father
Lift,press to mother’s chest today only!
……………………………end……………………………….
Adjunct=upadhi,thippu=feather of birds.
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Poetry collection  16. Anuththara  1965
Divine medicine:
To trouble of this world,to problems of these people,
Your observation is  ready  medicine;
To thanking jealousy ,to jealousy  blame
Your embrace is supreme medicine;
Sense’s, mind’s,intellect’s problem being solved
To become one with you is  divine medicine!
………………………end……………………………..
Chanchu    sword:
My  prayer be always
Be your protection
To sin of separation from you
Be punishment.
Worry of your safety
As I am praying
Always be  pricking thorn.

Doubt fear  excitement(emotion)
Feelingful imaginationsrising wing
Bee  face  of my prayer
Chanchu (skillful) sword.
entering god’s lotus feet
absorbing honey
be drinkable      breast   your moon light
joining honey  nest!
………………………………end………………………
Renke=wing,feather.   Chanchu=beak,chanchura=skilful,
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Golden vessel of chest:
What happiness you have  filled and kept
In your chest’s golden  silver  vessel?
Kailasa and vaikunta melted and flowd
Like sea of milk in holes and holes

White moon body like
Your chest’s amrutha vessel!
It’s soft touch to lip
Divine grace,sweet joy!
One minute became year!
One minute only became year?
………………………..end………………………………
Fort:
In warfield of family
She herself is  my fort;
In family business
She is my market:
 Forest of manmatha rathi  killer(prana)
She is hunt of hunt!
………………………..end……………………..
Harini=prana(life),theft,   behara= business (vyavahara)
Gimdi  vessel(chombu)
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What if anybody respects?:
What if anybody honours?
What if anybody dishonours(rejects)?
What if appreciates?what if blames?
At last
Coming to home
To you me and me to you!
Two   zeros
Joining ,  beauty
Is it not complete’ one’ by itself!
……………………..end……………………………
Rasa rushi embrace:
my great mother!sri lotus feet,
wife’s body form  o
love gold house
loving you I am   dejected(disinterested)
even if embraced great renunciation
by kissing supreme yogi!
By embracing I am great rushi
Evem after enjoyment I am penancier;
Rasa rushi embracing!
……………………..end……………………….
Parirambhisu= to embrace.
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Partless(ananga)  ranga(stage):
To you
That is only sub part of part
To me
Ocean of joy  roaring(sounding) wave!
To you
In skin bone    nest  one inferior  position
To me
Place of joy flower flower  dancing garden!
To you
To valley of family throwing one maya     bondage!
To me
Throwing in heavenly peak rasa penance garden!
…………………………….end…………………………………
Jaghana=lower,last,inferior
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In body field:
Your
Body field I am player
Your
Chest peak ashrama I am penance child(vatu);
You
Each organ(part) is  one happy hut;
There
Absorbing  milk and honey forgets   my lip!

Where ever tasted (enjoyed) there sugar;
Where ever smelled,there jasmine
Chakravaka  is struggling saroja(lotus)
Climbing pundareeka   is
You
Honey sac of red lotus!  i
  Love  bee hema bright emotion!
………………….end……………………..
Dvirepha=bee,koka=chakravaka bird
Kokanada= red lotus,chanchareeka= bee,  saroja=lotus,
Kuti=hut
…………………………………..end………………………………
Who is this?
Kumkuma in forehead,nose star (muguthi) in nose
Mangalya  in neck.
Sleeping by sde is  three world’s  mother’s
Chest’s kindness!
Beloved?life partner?wife?mother?
To   this worldly relation stammered mouth!
……………………………end………………………………
Forehead  and eye:
For your eye
Sea of joy
I  am chinmaya(cuonsciousnessful)!
Forehead’s dot of kumkuma
 Milk sea’s gold moon
To me
Life honey spirit’s
Moon rise!
……………………….end…………………….
Cot yogi:
 Chin,cheek,nose, eyebrow
Eye lip forehead jade
Chest born
Holy blossomed lotus
Parts like hip excetra
Have become penance stage to me:
Sri matha’s   feet grace lotus  company(friendship)
………………………….end………………………..
Kutmala=half blossomed  bud,saroja=lotus,ingadalu= milk sea
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To good lucked(to soubhagyavathi):
My achievement(practicing) stage
Your parts.
To protect me only
You came!
My good lked life
Guru’s grace  firm wife
You are house of love;
Sri mahamatha’s
Sri  lotus feet!
……………….end……………….
Friend of births and births(many life’s):
Even if anybody leaves   hand ,you does not leave
You are my mother ,father,guru,god!

With you in past so many times have born and died
In future also with you taking births
Don’t hesitate,with difficulties in  sorrow again again
Play of family lust cycle rounding!

When you are there with me,why fear to jump
Serpent kaalinga present  pit also?
You are coming without leaving back
you will surely come,even if  little late!
……………………….end………………………………
Love maths:
You are three  kasu,I am three kasu:
If we are added-crores of rupees!

You bring little ,I bring little:
If we join kalpa shys!

Your’s one kiss ,mine one kiss;
If embraced,amount-where is money lord!

I am a boredom,you are a support:
If we unite,-lake of joy!

I am small,you are poor:
If we become together-sea of treasure!

You are one worshipable,I am one rejectable
If two become one-total kindom(state)!
…………………………….end……………………………………
Kumkuma protection!
You
Forehead’s kumkuma protecter
Is there to me,beloved,
No fear of danger what ever
We don’t have ,I know!

Has binded me your
Neck’s golden chain
Mangalya deeksha(oath)
Shall we not have always
Shiva protection of shive?
……………………..end……………………..
Godess in eternal:
Wife in world stage
Godes in daily!
Here in your cradle only
Kept by me
Given by myselfnameLshall I say belover?)
He.ma.va.thi!
………………………end………………….
Submission of joy:
This all our joy,rising above as flower
Your feet temple becoming flower mass
Tears of joy of devotion,Bhagirathi
Let bathe and bless your  feet kasha!

Observing beauty rasa joy itself-one
As though flock of jasmine becoming white birds
In line as milk series series flying itself
Rise and attackto post  like flood of  milk(amrutha)

All love’s kissing embracing
Enjoyment yoga positions feast fire
Chant of panchakshari manthra flame rising to ghee
Yajna(sacrifice)deekshitha love  king and queen
In star night kailasa traveler!
…………………………….end……………………………
Realization of grace:
World ruling mother,maya ruling me
Has come herself my wife!
Though she is whole,as though little
Embracing with love has slept yhis graceful!

Sun star,earth sky ocean
Creating playing that  divine   omni potent.
Here as weak(abale,strengthless) as loved wife
As golden small family lock!

All inner soul that liberated beibg caught in dvaitha
Has downed to arm embrace giving herself by herself
There falling to sri feet.to worshiping me
Filling  provision of drinking red lip honey!

That is total,this is total;part of total is total
In between two totals,I also  totally total!
………………………..end………………………………………
Jaaye=wife
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Poetry collection  18.kadaradake in 1067
-to:
1) seing your face
My renunciation shaking
Feared,girl!
Remembering  bhagavan(god)
Have made to request
Twinkling eyed deer!

2)as though irritating mind
Line irritating chest
You are beauty.
Your position of stand
To lust(kama)  hand tie(knot)
You will win rathi.

3)in malnad’s green head
Where moon kisses
Born tender smile!
In stomach of white cloud
Sleeping rain bow  like
 Thoughts(kind)!

4)universal beauty
In order to win
In green of forest
Rainy season’s rain is pouring
Are like enjoying peacock
You in beauty!

5)gurudeva why you are
Making to dance these
Beautiful dolls around?
How ever   much   held  tight
How ever much prevented
Wables mind!
………………….end……………………
To colour carver(varnashilpi) venkatappa:
To mouthless( dumb)colours  you give speech power
Silence teacher,colour carver.
Unmanifest song which can’t be heard by ear
You are making to shine!
Emotional net  which speech can’t explain (describe)
Poet of colours  you have described.
peeling   past   giving to present
peeping into future,figure yogi!
Let kanva of kalidasa come to  line of kanva!
That shankunthale let come to her as friend!
Let kalidasa   himself  come towards you as disciple!
To know secret of  skill,brahma come towards you!
…………………………..end………………………………
(Inducted by picture of ‘karuvitta shankunthale’drawn by sri k venkatappa
by soil figure   giving send off from kanvashrama.)
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Rainy season lightning(kaarminchu):
See there in tower of sky
Head(knot) spread queue  who is this?
Spilling everywhere cloud silk cloth
In beautiful   fearful dance
Body forgetting godess who is this?

What is this anger cming to queen
smoke has filled  god series!
Intoxicated what is this high attraction of joy?
Universal    high  intoxication(unmatthathe) again  what is this?
Vibrating hill and earth!

See hand sword’s brightness
That itself is appearing as golden light?
Waist bondage ,red lightning see?
Eye spark’s  long flood ,see?
sky blowing    colour fear!
……………………………..end……………………….
Kara=hand,unmattha= highly intoxicated,dukula=silk cloth,
Kaar=rainy season
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Beauty:
Beauty is my hari! Beauty is my hara!
Beauty is my unmanifest(unexpressed) brahma!
beauty is punya(good deed) ;beauty is heaven;
beauty is my ultimate  liberation!
World without is is rourava (severe) hell
If there is beauty hell is heaven.
There is no god higher than beauty;
Without beauty not   god!

My elf is beauty,your self beauty;
I  won’t exist,,you  won’t exist,all is beauty!
Beauty is joy! Beauty is wealth!
Who is mother to universe you know?-beauty!
………………………end……………………………..
Rourava=fearful,terrific,
……………………………………………………………………..
At black night,patient  bed:
No name of stars,if seen no sky;
Searching  whole world like blind.
drowning in deep dark,earth melting vanishing
scratching   trouble(kare kare)  of rain’s tone!
Along with journey joining with  sound of beere (……….)insects
Is troubling producing   head ache!
To under stand death  that is three times,four times
Five six hundred times  rainy season’s light;
Beyond breath of life,jumping depth of death
In dense  has covered maya!
In disease ‘s  bed room fallen to me
Pride  that I am ego has  only remained!
…………………………..end……………………………….
Sade=beat,sajje=bed,bed room,bisu=to weld,ruje=disease,
Saandra=dense,kare=bank,border, colour stain,to call,
………………………………………………………………………………………..
What if what exists? No thimmu:
All is beautiful
all is successful
malnad is dense forest
beauty has resided.
All is like past only;
What if  What ever  exists!
No (pride.(ego,aham).

 Like that day only today
Kamalli is  singing
Like that day today also
Kajana  is singing.everything is as usual
What if what exists ?
No pride.(ego,aham)

On green forests
Golden sunlight is sleeping
On green grass
Dew drop is twinkling.
All are  as before
All which  appears!what if what exists
No ego(pride ,aham).

Where ever seen there
That day has become today
To all given gifts
No eye which has seen
Everything is as befpre
All what ever exists!
What if what exists?
No  pride(aham,ego)
………………………end……………………………
Thimiru= pride,aham,ego.
………………………………………………………………
Rava viheena(soundless):
On soundless hill
On flower creeper
Is present  leaf hut
In peoplelessness.

Outside here in mango tree
song of kokila smooth  sand
statue   of silence is churning
forest itself.
Lakhs lakhs of poetries
Are writing book!
……………………………end………………………………
To blossom is secret:
Blossom flower blossom
To blossom is religion.
Let there be strength in body
Let there be love in chest.
Let there be success in thought
Beauty in face,
Let good (shiva) be goal
Let truth be beauty
Blossom flower blossom.
To blossom is secret!
…………………..end……………………….
   Kiss:
Seal of kiss on cheek
Won,t wipe out  for you have given:
Everyday I enjoy it by remembering
I will never forget it.

Eternal new permanent sign
Is itself witness of our loved chests.
Cheek carrying  this kiss
Three times of liberation ,lotus eyed!
………………………..end………………………
Save love wiping off lust:
Break thorns  retaining (saving) joy
Save love remoov lust.
Sky of evening,face of beauty
As though fascinating mind in similar way’

Though to presence (vicinity) of beauty

Let purity of self be retained.
Break thorns saving joy;
Retain love ,removing lust!
………………………end……………………….
mine and yours:
mine and yoursprevious love’s  sweet honey
has  it become  boring?
Did  lotus of chest dried up?
No previous beauty to that?
Or other flower attracted
Your  mind?tell gold!
With doubt of separation only
Water emiting in eye
If becomes distant,what to say
Rolls body in soil..
……………….end………………………
Nala=joy,happiness. Nal=good,lovely,beautiful.
…………………………………………………………………………..
Afternoon:
(near kukkanahalli pond)
Wave wave wave pond is laughing
spark spark spark  emiting smile,
mid day’s  winter (magi)sun
 pouring mass of rays.
In south direction  see has thrown  distant neelagiri
Pouring sky’s  mind’s dream  as though!
Near lake in vast field
Cow has kept mouth to ground
Under tree in cool shadow
Has slept cattle  cattle  care taker.
In banyan tree is murmuring tired air
Very distant new clouds telling arrival!

Above sun,below poet
Why two  viewers  here:
All remaining are  actor and actresses
Have drowned  in acting.
Mid day’s sun of magi pouring mass of rays
Wave wave wave laughing  pond emiting   spark spark spark  laugh.
…………………………….end………………………………………..
Danagahi=cattle care taker, kare=pour,rain.bank.
…………………………………………………………………………….
To music:
Come take me off from  hard reality
Music beauty,to chest of secret dream!  
From problems of earthfrom worries and fears
Pulling away self(athma) drown in amrutha!

By  your kiss body forgets pain;
In divine garden life flows as milk!
By your embrace death becomes sweet!
Again –I don’t know what exists you only tell.
……………………….end…………………………
Kudi=boil,anger.  Nechchu=belief,faith. Nachchu=faith,belief.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Let doubt be cleared:
Explode amd break golden dreams many
Among these you are one!
B;osom faithful faiths many
Among them you are one!
Take I will  give tears offer
By  Boiling boiling chest has pained;
Thought eternal  ,to fascination of love
Let debt be cleared today!
…………………………..end……………………………
Prayer of pair(couples):
Ocean of kindness grace,hey gurudeva
Making to live both as you know
Carry to your feet
Give boon of love to us
No sympathy for ever to us
Difficulty,loss ,poverty,richness
Ganji(paste)  water is enough to us.
strength   of love,grace is required to us.
………………………..end………………………
Ingrateful:
Is pain os scorpion bite is a bite?
Your path of separation is it pain?
Having suffered from pain of separation
For a moment forgetting  today.
Scorpion bite itself to me
Became cool and fine!
Why did I killed scorpion
What a mistake happened!
……………………….end………………….
Deepavali:
for you only decorated my house;
for you only decorated my body.
No people will come here;don’t fear come;
Poets,rushies,,hey great persons
Whole world greats,grace and come!

Colourful flowers have become feast to eyes;
Variety of fragrance  red smoke  has filled.
There is celebration(utsava) of neelanjana’s  excetra
Honourary art worshiper’s worship is also there!

Poet has decorated for you
Who can attract eyes of town,not for show off
Likes and wries for your likes
Not a dullard to cry for  likeship of town(people)
…………………………end………………………………..
Osage=good function.(shubha kaarya).
………………………………………………………………………….
moon rised:
face of earth became heaven’s  face;
beautiful  light  became joy;
generality (commonness) became   god’s  grandure ;
moon light of night  became  heaven.
Became rasa    treasure world lord’s  (jagadeesha’s).
Success came to  whole creation:
Moom rised!
……………………………………….end………………………..
Bimmu=pride,ego,aham.
………………………………………………………………………….
Teasing is bedroom:
Held   hand  very (clever)intelligent  has not come  from mother house.
  Children are also staying  with mother there.
Delivered  ,brothers(coborn)   nobody to me;
House graveyard; I am a devil here!
Plar is boredom;yawning is friend;
Seing  hit rain  pouring  troubling jir
Requesting  guru that  this punishment is enough
Dieing birthing, for me nobody to pity seen:
Teasing     is  bedroom  with pride!
…………………………….end………………………………..
Bimmu= pride,ego,aham.
…………………………………………………………………………..
Is singing bird killing:
One first morning  in pushya month;
No cloud,where ever seen  blue
Shuddha(pure)  nineth day sky cleanliness!

In coconut trees  later six months(hingara) flowers
Was singing bird in ‘tuvvi’ tune(raga)
In enjoyment of holding eating insects!

Is singing bird killing? Amrutha maya:
To crossed sunlight rised my long shadow
What if fallen    from  concrete roof- no pain,no death!
…………………………………………end……………………………….
Hinguru=rain falling in  last six month of the year.
…………………………………………………………………………
Guesture of shadows:  
Line of trees long shadows in tender sunlight of  magi(winter)
have slept in road and in field.
Meaning of shadow    means  to prevent light
This physics knowledge is waste here:
See there
In difficult shadow works((chaya works)
Planning behind one
Beyond intellect’s non  non dual  wrry
’break jail’  telling
Doing guesture like dream –like symbolic script!
…………………………….end……………………………
Indragopa:
our punya(good deed) is  her sin
which bad moments  curse
touched  to apsara(divine lass) pity
took birth here indragopashining gold  insect form!

First rain of  monsoon
Pouring enjoying bathed earth
In fence line of land
Green knit ugani creeper
Gold became insects!
Children’s  mind got looted!

Prana(life) power  itself  marrying
Moving in life shell(shukthi)
Delivered rain bow
Line series bright bright
are recreating indragopa :
 red,yellow, green, blue
fence became  heaven of  colour!

 Gomedika  pushyaraga
Fire cloud in chest of children!
Tolerating fire clouds
Resembling  colour   oode(vaade)
Breath of children floating floating
 Rising like rasa aeroplane
Beyond    stars
Joining town of sahasraksha(thousand eyed)
Teasing indra(god)
Spoiled  fell  divine garden!

Did divine garden fell spoiled?
Ask child.
That only has come here
“That    only  has   come here
In form of   indragopa!”
……………………………end…………………………………..
Oode=(soil }containers for filling grains.
………………………………………………………………………..
??Kuvempu:
In melody spilling  song of birds
Harvest leaf  heaven  abundant(plenty)
Cool of new honge(tree) shadow
Red cheek’s beauty smooth
Gottigampu(play of fragrance?) of  surahonne
Evening red of sun rise and set
Streamless  flood’s force?(…………………………….)
Hill peak’s  bardila(…………………) whiteness
Borderless sea’s   charecters
Greatness of star,sun,moon, sky
Adhi athma’s rich love
To join all together
Mind of fate  carved dream
Seen dream itself is see:kuvempu
Dust under devotion –kuvempu!
Spark of guru’s hand – kuvempu!
Temple of world queen –kuvempu!
Head of rich kannada-kuvempu!
Non existing  even though existing kuvempu!
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Alampu= love,joy,fine.bardila=?
Thinpu=heavy,burden.  Gotti=communication,sallapa(play),sarasa.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
To bird at the tip of cropbunch(thene):
In eyes of farmr
In this gold soil
In fruit    become  wetland
In garden house
At the end of crop
In paddy bunch pecking yellow grains
Sitting bird  joluva(swinging,hanging down) bird
Being caught in your heaven
Spilling amrutha of heart
Became blessed;
Golden crop bunch,swinging
From tip from you
Incarnating into mind
This beauty consciousness(teaching)
Shiva becoming truth i
 Became god!
………………………………end………………………..
sagga=heaven,jooluva=to hang down,swinging.
……………………………………………………………………
Nameless cool:
Distant, distant,distant
Away from men
Rising to head of  hill and forest
Come, mind ,come!

Town where  jealousy people exist
Leaving away away
Forest is  good  come
O mind come!

Friendship of singing bird
Jhenkara of bee
Trouble of authority
Untouched  amrutha meals!

Sun rise is beautiful
Moon rise is beautiful
Cloudless night’s sky
Arila(knowledge?……)  temple!

Green,green abundant
Nameless cool
Melodius by itself
No other greatness
There only kuvempu!......distant……
…………………………….end………………………………….
Pempu=greatness,ari  =know,arila=?     Baanu=sky.
………………………………..end……………………………
Everyday area(nithyashali )(eternal)   area:
Lesser than which poetry
Farmer’s this green labour
Child crops  green padime(…………)

Saw saw saw tired  
 Tasted  again again ,but
In heart enjoyed danced!

To write poetry is wrong
Saw saw saw  saw
Only who reads it?
Still fool(dullards):
Come,see,love,embrace!
………………………end……………………
Padi=a measure,way,all.
………………………………………………………..
Blessings to daughter:
How I loved mother like that
The friend who loves you,you also get
Let bless you sri world mother:
As you submit (dedicate)  to him ‘yourship’
Let him submit(dedicate) hisship,girl.
You submit him   and  become zero
Submiting   himself  becomes  zero
Written side by side
Both zeros are near
It appears infinet sign?
In married life you become blessed!
…………………………end……………………………
Nere=near,side by side,whitening of hairs,to cme to youth.
Akke=to rule,iniya=friend,beloved.
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Poetry cpllection   ‘pretha queue’(devil queue)no 19  in 1967:
In hampi:
Come here,come here,kannadiga , come here:
You have not seen  known greatness,see
It’s insect held dead body(cadaver),see come here!
Doing meditation in graveyard ,achiever,come here:
This hampe   is wet    big graveyard   of kaliyuga!
 Head of kannadaa matha split exploded here only:
Have you got tears?  Poet,come pour.
Why are you going to kasha you traveler?
Hamper is south kasha:by valience
Powder powder also,by death holier kasha hear.
Yogi vidyaranya’s  under feet’s powder  (dust)is hear;
Death made  good pilimrigage this is !
Spoiled kannada  garden  this is! Kannadiga
Traveler,come here!request  come here!
Seing waiting devotees of hamper  virupaksha

Is emiting tears here:come here!
Is alone! Ayyo bored
God!runs comes embraces devotees!
Come,here come! Come,come here!
……………………………..end…………………………….
Aarama=garden,janipode= on meditation.
…………………………………………………………………..
Sinful poet’s prayer:
From poet joined palms ,given to enjalu(saliva)
What do you want?
From person who has become servant of monthly salary
What do  you  get?

On who has given shoulder to noga
 Of pride of higher officers.
To group life ‘s people’s  fineness
Has spioiled thejas(brightness)
to forest’s ,field’s,  sky’s liberation 
has left tender coconut water.
To fascination  of colour of golden cage
Has   Weared slavery.
To golden chain ornament awards
Has given great name
To  cheating past divine ideal
Has  spoiled goal.
To kept inside oneself,desire of nation
Has  put fire to dead body(cadever).
To greatness of art  to development of earth life
Has given murder  victim!
From poet who has given joined palm(anjali)
What do you want?
From person who has become servent of monthly salary
What do you want?
Let die,spoil,to old mout of fame pour water!
In forgetfulness    pond water name allow to float dead body ash!
…………………………………………..end………………………..
Sing plough yogi:
Sing plough’s yogi

higher than manure
song    itself  becoming fertile
grows ragi well !
sing,yogi of plough!

Sing,plough  yogi
Song becoming  moderate red
Kula of plough(hala) becoming sharp
Touching to land of heart
Ragi emits kindness
Sing plough yogi!

Sing plough yogi
As enthusiastic to ox
Earnings doubling
Grain store  becoming  congested(dense)
You will become enjoyer!
Sing, plough yogi!
……………………..end………………
To  Soldier of kula:
Is  Mere ploughing  line of kula?
Nation’s forehead writing  writer!
Gandhi of land,beginning of ground(earth)
You are nation’s power:
Is your devotion lesser
Than than that of nehru’s?
He is name,you are breath
To land godess.will never put off  non reducing
Eternal lamp!
Only if breath ,then only name?
If there is body only then breath
Your labour is our meals;
In your strength our liberatio.
Is there senior army  for protection?
You are back bone of that!
In your hands are work;
In your leg greatness
Nameless without knowing name
Name not liking  you
Name not liking you or greatness
To land godess;
Will never put off  not reducing
Eternal lamp!
In rice war bharatha
In fire of kurukshethra
Bhishma  soldier (kali) of hala weapon
To beauty of earth fallen victim
Namo   to you,blessed plougher(hali)!..
………………………………end……………………..
Bhukthi= meals,bhojana.
……………………………………………………………………………………….
To fire cool feetLagnisheetha  charanake):
Wearing human form,coming down to earth
God’s sun  kindnss;
In covered dark only one is moving
Amrutha  moon ray;
In feet travel(padayathra)of sri
Vinoba’s fire cool feet!
Today to thrivikrama  who has come like vamana
Poet’s  namana  no debt(debtless).
………………………..end…………………………………………
Kannada dindima(drum):
Beat kannada drum
O Karnataka heart shiva!

Those who are like dead,hit and awaken
those who fight   unite and make to love
pour tears to jealousy
bless so as to live together!
Beat kannada drum
O Karnataka heart shiva!

Reducing in other than shiva works(shivethara)
Let appear   mangala(good) in  in intellect intellect;
In ideals of poets,rushis,saints
Let all round development happen in all!
Beat kannada drum
O Karnataka heart shiva!
………………………end……………………………..
At tne time of opening ceremony of ‘manasa gangothri’.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Poetry collection no 20   ‘kuteechaka’:  in 1967.
Mind –heart:
Not believing chest
What mind likes.
Mind does not like
What heart believes.
Once(you) come in mind
Once(you)  shine in heart
Often enjoy everywhere
All for you!
Even after knowing   not knowing
As half dumb!
……………………….end…………………………
Should jiva hold god and request scriptures?:
After leaving all will be got
At the tip of practice(achievement)!
After closing eyes,eye is seen
After I die liberation to me!
Even if you are seen  first,should tell ‘not seen’
  After that even if seen not seen!
First your name should not be spoken
Later I can’t speak!
Fish to drink water  has to search in sea!
Bird to suck air ,has to  struggle n sky?
I to get you ,have to search in temple?
Jiva to hold god,has to beg scriptures?
………………………………end…………………………….
Logic and life:
When will you learn  this tell sanyasi?
Even logic is also maya  like world;
All logics are   kids of desire
Life is greater than logic.;
Jnana is measure of measuring   ignorance;
To truth  ,false(myth) is also truth
When rain bow divides is    remaining  prana (asu) of  dead body (cadaver) 
experience  itself  is witness  of athma(self)!

In dark house what you wil see  by clearing eyes
To dry up chest   rasa   will  will truth shine?
Shiva shiva,searching  for  non existing ,leaving  existing
Is being cheated:protect and upgrade him!

………………………………….end………………………………..
Despair:
Failure,failure,failure failure!
Success  not seen ,death s better!
Float,float,float,float-
O life ,dry leaf!

Pouring is rain of fate
Flowing is life’s river.
Blowing coming strong air
Washing out floating athmas
Obstructing  towards  shunya(zero)!
Without  kindness blowing!
 Failure,failure, failure, failure!  
Success not seen,death is better!
Float,float,float, float,
o  life like dry leaf!
……………………………………..end………………….
tharubu=to hold,to stop.
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Tail of brahma:
To wing of worry no tiredness,to stand no lg:\
To boundless    sea of knowledge  knowledge
by pulling pulling pained,  tail of brahma
but what for scholars there is time to spend!
In logic (argument) of true, false  dream or real
Eating  false growing stomach(hollow) enjoy with joy!
To wing   of worry,  no tiredness  no leg to stand:
To boundless ocean of knowledge  no bank!
…………………………………..end…………………………………….
Every where,always,all:
In all is present all:
Jiggery is there to  to those who know!

In body of drop there is ocean
In powder(dust) there is kula mountain
In minutes there is kalpa distance;
In  spark there is brahmanda(universe).
In past is future
In today there is yesterday
in my self(athma) there is body of  world.

In self of world my body is there
To those who now,there is jiggery.
………………………..end……………………..
Manthra of blessing:
Om
You are mother house of  mangala(welfare)
Do good gurudeva,
My hemangi
My premangi;
keeping in cradle of grace
protecting with kindness
do good,
do good,
do good gurudeva!

Can’t give reason
 Star of my heart
No other reason
I don’t know
O  my god!
You are mother house of mangala(good)
Do good to us gurudeva:
Om shanthi,shanthi, shanthi.!
………………………..end……………………….
To be available is your goal:
In creation creater; poet in poetry:
Know each rise(udaya)  as incarnation!
Whatever eye sees is temple of sundareshwara;
What ever ear hears is word of kaveeswara(poet lord)!
Like moon and sun power(dust) is also worshippable ,kno:
Know and come behind me,to be available is your goal!
……………………………..end………………………………….
courage alms(bhikshe):
you have to protect
I am insect.why  to test?
In my boldness  my faith is enough;
Give courage  alms!

Namo    to koushika   who  gave  mind  to menaka
Before knowing lass  vratha(nompi) of celibacy
Failing to divine beauty  fall  is it a woder?
Recently filled  stomach  to your fascination of rice
Without saliving(enjalisu)  lass offer(naivedya)
Opposite to my wish if you don’t  protect(carry on)
Are you fit for  love   of  gurudeva?
……………………………………..end…………………………………..
Music o  music:
Make me to float,make me to float
Make me to float to amrutha.
On thorn of life heart
Has scribled   blood   has  poured!

So as to vanish dvaitha,mind
Dip to your advaitha(non secondness)
 To innerself  retaining  differentiation
Offer  brahmism(brahminess)!
Music o  music.
………………………end………………………….
Mystic(anubhaavi):
Here skyborn (happened) are  moving here
Romanticism is    witness   for their  vicinity!
Treat them  by announcement (recitation)of   veda sound;
Offer sama  music.

Small doubt is enough;push dry logic
 Play joy    by  heart string 
To  Life(prana) veena onkara,world   destroying
Brahma only is sweet(madhu) rasa  (raso vy     saha) drink.
………………………………………..end………………………
Prayer(request):
From this maya liberation  is required
Enough this humbleness.
Upto this  by illusion of thinking neem as jiggery
Grazed,next enough .

You are only power; you are only liberty:
If you grace  which is impossible?
Stone is gold;insect  is godess;
Lame can cross beyond  sea.

What is i?younger brother of insects!
If you lift  soil is manikya.
Like under animalship,  divinity rolling
Requesting    athma   self honour  protect!
…………………………………..end……………………………..
Dainya= low condition.
………………………………………………………………………….
Let sahasrara (thousand petaked wheel) blossom:
Dhimi,dhimi,dhimi,dance dance dance
Let sahasrara blossom!
Let predispositions(samskaras)  of
   hundreds of past life  roll!

Hey durga, hey kali,
 Grace shuli(sharp weaponed), garland of heads.
In mind and heart
Let   self sincerity enlighten.
Joy,sorrow, difficulty, trouble
Profit,loss, creation,destruction,
Desire and despair
all are your   designs(nyasa?)
this preaching(teaching) shine!
 Dhimi,dhimi,dhimi dance dance dance
Let sahasrara blossom!
hundred hundred hundred   past births
let predispositions (samskaras) roll!
……………………………end…………………………………
Tholasu=shine, brighten.nyasa=kept,association of dharmadarshies.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Make me deaf:
Make me deaf,make  me blind
Make me dumb.
Apart from you not to hear to others
Make deaf
Apart from you not to see others
Make me blind.
Apart from you not to talk to others
Make me dumb
Make me deaf,make me blind
Make  me dumb!
………………………………end……………………………..
To body:
Don’t fear my body
You are my life house
 your safety,your friendship
when athma misbehaves,where is development(expansion)?
 You only are first means  to all  achievements!

How much protection is needed to you
How much punishment is needed to you
Only  That much alms (bhikshe) is to you  take.
Beyond that why enjoyment(bhoga) to you,brother?
If you live for you only you are vrukodara(bhima)!

 I am not telling enjoyment
Is not needed  to you relative
Now and then once
eat and enjoy   beyond stomach,when available.
If you try (pride)  to search  (quickly)   hits to you!
………………………………..end……………………………..
Begi=beegi?vegi?,  geya=fit for singing,singable.
Geha=house.
……………………………………………………………………………..
To singer(gamaki) sister:
I becoming your child,give you a kiss
If you sing my poetries and cool
In waves of tone,forest,sky, hills only
Making flower light float,dance!

To meter (chandassu) of charana charana  made to moov
Climders(charanara)  feet sign dot play:
On moon string keeping word (pada) mrudanga(drum)
Ray of moon lip  notes(swara) rasa play!

In sweet creeper house birds melody sound
Like rasa  brindavana’s leg chain sound:
Cot,leg chain, bell’s sound became
 Sounding veena forn godess’s play!
…………………………….end……………………………….
Ranitha=making sound,   nikvanana=sound?,   inchara=melodious sound,
Kunja=creeper house  thanthri= planner,string.
……………………………………………………………………………………….
“This is not mere car:
Go near with respect
Bow     head  and  rise up:
This is not mere car;
This is chariot of  chinmaya(consciousnessful)
Town of my mother!”   

As machaine form
 she is manthraful   herself
to come technique  arrest(koolu)
will you go?
To dress only (disguise)
I will not  go deceived!Kuvempu poetry  part  7:
Dear friends thanks and wishes to you all
Note:  I am grateful to following poets ,authors amd their family members:
1)dr.kuvempu and family members
2)dr.da.ra,bendre    and his family members
3)dr.g.s.shivarudrappa and his family members
4) k.s.narasimhaswamy  and his family members
5)d.v. gundappa and his family members
6)dr h.s. venkateshamurthy  and his family members
7) b.r. lakshmana rao and his family memders
8) m. gopalakrishna adiga  and his family members
9)kannada sahithya parishath and it’s president and members,administraters
For allowing me    to use their    various  original  sources.
10)Microsoft(typing), facebook  and blogspot,google for search for making me to
 write and publish   on world stage without expense of a single rupee lifelong and later
also.
10)sri Ramakrishna     ashrama ,mysore ,it’s president and members,for allowing me to use
Various original sources in philosophy.
11) poet someshwara  for his sjathakas.
I am grateful to all these    above   members  for providing  original sources for translations
12)   dear  friends for going through my blog.
What I feel is:translation is an art .don’t restrict into science.it is like playing side instrument to  vocalist.
Creation is function of heart lotus.where as translation is function  brain lotus.
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Gratitude:
Guru who called towards guru
My life divine tree
How shall I forget you?
Remember
In gratitude everyday!

Among  honourables     supreme  honourable;
 General in general
(common in common)
Became     blessed by your  grace.
To remember is
Worship to me!

Loving wife I remember you
Making to enjoy  sons I remember  you;
By reading works(writings)  I remember you
To remember is self achievement!

Ahaithuki(without reason?) grace  ocean
 Without cause self relative
Like that day only today tomorrow
For ever  exist to me
Your
Permission for friendship!
……………………end………………………
Ahaithuki=?  (without   hethu(reason)?)
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O firm(achanchala):
If you love sumangala(good)
If you angry not good!
Again from where    star strength
O firm.

 To call you is good(welfare)
If forgoton ill welfare!
From where is star moovment strength
O firm!

Your presence is good welfare
If you leave ill welfare
 You only are strength and nonstrength
O firm!.
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Evening journey:
As it is evening mind is   anxious  to
dakshineshwara journey(piligrimage)
holy words of paramahamsa
 to vessel of panchamrutha!

Writing secret file
Will  see  mahendra guptha;
Pouring rain of questions
Will listen argument of narendra!

On that side keshavachandrasena’s
Will see namo of devotion;
Again on this side girish ghosha’s
Will wet in  moon mind!

When it is evening ,mind is anxious
To dakshineshwara  journey(piligrimage)
Holy hands of paramahamsa
To pancha amrutha vessel!
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Dafthara= file.
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Kuteechaka (hut saint)  :
Enough is this multiwater(bahudaka)
You became kuteechaka
·         my mind!
Wandering here and there is complete
Found these and those
Searching searching seing is over!
O my mand
Enough is this multi water(bahudaka)
You become kuteechaka (hut saint)!

In   golden sahyadri
Is badari abd kasha
In rameshwara   and puri  
  Became  festivals(jathra) troubling  tiring!

What ever may be kshethra(field,holy place)
What ever may be holy water(thirtha)
Whatever may be god?
That is you,this is   i!

O my mind
Enough is this multi water (bahudaka)
you become kuteechaka!

Every where  existing your’s
guru’s feet temple   yours!
Wandering here and there,mine
To my charana(feet)  knowing difficulty(banna)!

 O my manasa(mind)
Enough is this multi water(bahudaka)
 You become  kuteechaka(hut saint)!
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Bahudaka= multi water saint,banna= problem,trouble, difficulty
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Our mother world mother!
May be world mother;
Do you know?
I know only this
You are my mother!

To you I am
only one son:
your total 
is not to anybody else
again nobody means
reserved to me only
sinle  only!

To world is you
and me
world exists to you
and me!
You are total, I am complete
.your total to me
My total to you
Nothing other
One powder:
In all my kanaka (sweet)
You are hurna!

That she ,this she
That he this he
though they are like me
that is also complete truth!
In complete universe
In complete vision
Fraction is false
in fraction(part) complete is complete
in complete part is also complete!
………………………………end…………………………..
Spirit and ego:
In highness thrivikrama
In obedience   vamana
Don’t feel  that as this
This as that,o mind!
……………………………end……………………….
Geethanjali of raveendra:
 Came during   day
to my house
‘give  place in corner’
Told me.
Helping in worship
As servant of god
What is given  we buy(purchase)
 Told me.

Telling  like this  in
Dress of poverty
Slowly folded
In corner.on seing at mid  night
Temple neighbours covering
Have  ade unholy
On peeta (sacred chair)
……………………….end………………………….
Nere=near, to group, whitening of hair
Muda=joy,happiness.
………………………………………………………..
Chanting bead:
When life itself is chanting to me
Why  garland of chanting bead?
When beautiful world is shiva’s temple
Why blindness  covered temple?

Dark of silence ,to severe dejected
What if is path of achievement?
Divine mind to high rasa yogi
Heart’s    liberation;I am rasa rushi!

To win liberation    when there is   help of sound
Poet sound o kokila  why  why silence
when   there is    liberation from field to fores
why  bondage of cage to  poet  parrot?

Will do beautiful worship of eyes
Seing  local(desi) of   shiva’s creation!
Will do sweet japa (chant) of  tongue
Singing  new new  poetry Vedas.

Temple of body, senses door
Will never close,I have opened.
In air form ,in light form
Everyday   mooves   shiva himself!
…………………………end……………………………
Manjula=beautiful,melodious,sweet.   Pika=kokila.
………………………………………………………………………………
Namaskara:
Let my head bend(bow)  in your
At feet dust base.
Let all my ego
Drown in   tear water!

I worshiping myself
Lighting lamp
Instead of light ayyo
Only dark!
Dark of ego
Is covering around!

Without forgetting  I myself
By works I do
Let my desire become complete
In  heart lotus petal!
…………………………….end…………………………..
Translation of poetry of poet raveendra(geethanjali)
Translated to kannada: by dr.kuvempu.
Retranslated to English by: raveendra hosadurga
…………………………………………………………………………………..
Control of  truth(samyama of truth):
Dream told-“ I am muktha;   no regular diet
To me.”truth ttold-that is why you are mithya!”
Dream told-you are bond by  uncountable  chains!”
Truth told-‘there fore  I am Buddha  to all!”
……………………………end……………………………..
Fascination:
With long sigh  river’s this bank to told with  very much pain
Told  “ I know all joy is  in that bank!”
That-bank with hot sigh told like this baked
Told  “all joy is   in that bank!”
……………………………end……………………………..
Poetry collection    no 21  ‘honna hotthare’ in 1970.
(golden morning)
Night:
Sun    coming down seting in chest of western sea
Disappears earth in dark;
Other vast  world appears
By plants,moon,star’s light!
What if surrounding earth,shown during day?
Darkness enlightens  distance,distance!
Day covering richness,opens shows night
Greatness of sky  is  higher than earth!

Whole life is like   day,death is like night!
Life enlightens this world,shines death
Life is covered  other world’s (para)   hundred times rich!
Is life blind?is death rich eye?
……………………………….end…………………………………
Penancier(thapaswi):
Siting in yoga on krishnajina
In dense forest of hill  high  penancier;
In front ganga run’s with melodious sound
Whirling, wabling, sliping,jumping

Surrounding  creeping peaks not knowing tip
Shining   as    white (vykilinde) deficiency(?)
One who is beyond time place are covering(attacking)
 Snake houses   pinilaada(…………………….twisted) upto jade!

Shine and vanish states like lightning
Upset of kolagulida(warfield   remaining ………) like dream
slips: won’t appear  worries to penanciers(thapaswis)!
Even penance of penancier  is it not dream?
……………………………..end………………………………
Kolagula=war,waefield. Hinal= knot,elevations on the back of   bulls and oxes.
Pinal=jade. Vykilinde= deficiency,defect.vykalya.
……………………………………………………………………………………
Humbleness(dainyathe):
No faith in my punya to me gurudeva
Your grace is more  believable to me.
In strength of my   education (skill)  no belief
Your grace is to me great strength!

Missing step falling dark,I myself
Education(skill)  showing light won’t protect me;
Even if held tight however much,mind   hesitating(maluki?) wabbles.
Opening mouth fails  anxiously.

Shed tears of desire of win fading
When failed I feel struggle is enough
In anger I tell you are not there   once!
In  humbleness with mind pain join hands once!
……………………………….end…………………………
Bijje=vidye,education, skill,  nechchu=faith,belief.
…………………………………………………………………..
Dream of dream:
 I an dream moving dream I am
You can’t hold,bind keep it
If hit in  anger you can’t powder
Dream is dream for ever  till tip!

All  is appearing as dream to me;
Humans birds ,animals all.
Even hills also appear as  dream
Garden  of dreams  playing children.

Dream breaks  leading to some other  dreams at end!
What are death and life? From dream to dream
Will family fly? Who am i? which mind
Is seing dream , coming wandering  small dream?
……………………………..end……………………………………
Union:
Your melodious  sound flood is  running see
Around moon light is throwing
Floating ,floating; no tip no  beginning
Everywhere silence is spread.

When and why I got into boat, don’t know
I don’t know   to  which side  I am floating!
In boat I am sleeping alone ,god
Without closing eyes seing  arilugala?(……………)

Some where is there will not be a bank?
At least these will there will not be friendship to me?
On any day are you not showing body?
 I don’t know how and why,will unite you and me?
……………………………..end…………………………
Arilu=?
…………………………………………………………………………………..
Blind:
Dark: mid day summer sun present
Sweating in field! Black dark to me!
Kokila’s sound to me!
so called beauty is  only noise  to me!

To my beging bowl,coins he has thrown
Sound is man’s welfare form to me!
No light,no black,,no day and night to me
Real sun rising seting  along with me!

Why they announce   human birth is very high?
Joy of animals is not there to me god!
Why eyeless man’s  birth to me god?
Having eye  animal life is better better!
…………………………end………………………
Sanyasa:
Tell can you walk on edge of sword?
Have you got strength of  falling in fire?
Tell if you can pluck(pull) your own eye!
Can you pierce your chest?

If there is that courage  become sanyasi(hermit)
Liberation will not be  beyond your control!
Safron(kaavi)  is  not mere cloth,but fihe!
Practice of sanyasa  is not play!

Standing on bank rather than you burning
It is better to drown  in sea and flood
Mere repentence won’t get later
Rather than baking ,better to die!
…………………………end…………………………..
Boldness(courage) of disciple:
Come guru cut off  lowness  of my  chest;
I pray with devotion   baked and pained.
 I try to fly,no strength in wings
Roll in  dust only tired.

Come before boldness is reached come before faith  reduces,
Come before  being washed away ,come guru!
You are ocean of power; you are sea of liberation
Giving one drop relieve bondage!

At your feet,I have surrendered guru
In roll of my love tied you guru
Give hand ,lift up will con=,e guru
 If I roll in    dust,you come roll ,guru!
…………………………..end……………………………
Ethics teaching:
Enough leave,don’t tell ethics:”don’t fall”
Like all I can speak.
Where ever god is hiden
Have you to tell? I know it.

That world lord is seing all
Is not new,old world, I know by hearing
I know in ethics there is supreme joy
But when heart is hesitating,I can’t stand!

While missing step and fallingwill you lift well?
Can you pour a power to my chest?
If not so merely “don’t fall” you telling
I will make you to join in fallen group!
………………..end…………………
My friend(beloved) has come:
My friend has come!
Has come my friend
Today to chest forest!
In beauty and song
dancing dancing enjoying
has come to chest forest!

Has swollen from greatness!has expanded in joy
Forgetting body ,chest forest!
Will join with friend!
I will sing with him!
Will join beautiful sea!

Pressing his chest to chest
Keeping face in face
Will suck    his  life
His existence is my existence
Like jamuna and ganga
Like flowing united!
……………………end……………………………
pempu=greatness.
……………………………………………………………….
From tenyson poet:
“Sun rises; moon rises;
Time is aliping(passing).
Sun sets ;moon sets
Which day girl?”

“Let it be year; let it be year”
“We will become old”
“let month  complete;let month complete”
“distant very distant!”

“let  week pass ;let week pass”
“why that much late?”
“wait a little little;wait a little little”
Tell on which day?”

“let it be tomorrow,girl tomorrow only;
That is  epoch to me!”
go near her;morning ,sun,
Excuse whole day!
………………………end………………………
Ranna:
Rasa rushi,poet guru,poet emperor
Poet of poets of kannada,ranna
war drum which you played(beat) on that day
is sounding in my heart,valiant rasa statue!

Your  fame has base of centuries centuries
Puthihudu (……………….) kaathihudu(………………)  chest of rasikas!
Sound of sea unites with flute tone by your
Serious words  appeared spirit!

Your brightness(oje) ,sweetness, new  youth(soukumaarya)
New local,new shine,new type feel
Sounding   lightning,,pour making wonder!
To Himalaya  mountains,to ocean,teacher of poets
To sky,to  you, I bow head god
Bless me by giving your chest to me!
………………………end……………………………….
Oje=bright,power.Kaathihudu=?          Puthihudu=?
………………………………………………………………………………….
Makes dumd to speak:
By zero(shunya) inner mind ,grown in forest
Like small bamboo I am,guru.
Making flute, by wear and tears blowing your breath
Removing zero(shunya)  give completeness.

By hollowness (vacume,egolessness) rasa meal emits
When I became flute in your hand!
like telling”makes dumb to speak”
by zero emits divine music!

By leaving what I am? Only like bamboo!
Like fruit without srikrishna!
Like veena without  shesha teacher(sheshanna)!
Like jada dumb without feel!
……………………….end………………………………..
Small boat is drowning:
Drowning drowning little boat,gurudeva
Boundless sea is using sounding.
Dusk is covering,storm is blowing
Thundering ,lightning,thunderbolt is hitting

Roaring like lions irritated
Are rushing hiting ,strong waves;
No faith,no boldness,no strength, no challenge
Row has fallen from hand   below!

Come and protect before waves  swallow boat
Come and protect  before boat hits rock
Protect before I drown and lean under sea
You protect me before I die by chest break!
…………………………..end……………………………
Are=rock.
…………………………………………………………………………..
Manthrakshathe:
1)Sorrow is sleeping in our chest of joy!
Sin is hiden in our chest of punya(gooddeed)!

2)In mind kama(lust) ,in mouth rama
Even if not possible in hand valiant bhima!

3)to plough or not to plough is our desirs,
To grow or not to grow(yield) is god’s   will!

4)power (strength)    is  duty  of    body’devotion is duty of heart;
Liberation is duty of self(athma)!

5)rather than to live  dead
It is better  to die and live.

6)sitting in soundless  beautiful forest of chest
Which song shall I dedicate,singing treasure?
Swallowing singing world   woomb’s (uterus’s)
Inner silence is this sweeter song!


Where is boundary   to   challenging argument of known?
I to do punya,you are responsible   it is said!
To our sin  we are responsible!
To get liberation to me is your grace it is told!
If bad fate,it is result of work    it is said!

8)because man is man,hari is there!
………………………………end…………………………………….
Katha=cause.
………………………………………………………………………
Poetry collection      no 26th   ‘ my house’(  in 1946:
Kannada:
Kannada if spelled  dances my   chest
If told kannada  my ear erects!
Like poet seing rain bow
suddenly  mind forgets body.

Kannada kannada ha sweet kannada!
In kannada hari writes!
In kannada hari begs!
If requested in kannada
He pours rain of boons!
Hara protects without break!

Why to live I tell hey,jiva
If poetry is sung in rich kannada!
If progress of  rich kannada is seen!
If kannada mother’s service is done!
………………………….end…………………………..
31..Last thene(    crop bunch) and  and message of universal man.
To sri basaveshwara:
You came as skylamp in
Dark of karthika,
To those who are out of path(spoiled path),  as direction lamp
Before eight centuries back.
Holding fire sword,o  philosophy revolutionary  valiant
god’s grace’s one hey bold incarnation
sri  basaveshwara!

To sacrifice well of  of caste system
Falling ,to heat of sagrifice of vydikas
Victimized,lifting  down trodden (depressed) to  intellectual matters
To work divine principle’s  safe religious heaven
Conducted great  soul  namo to you!

Even today we are  not able to rise to to your height ayyo
Being caught in  sand of caste  shaking(trembling)!
Come holding hand lifting  make to  live pulling us
From name of varnashrama(ashrama system)  mud,
 cheating pond!

Pouring ganga of devotion
Calling power of bhagavatha
Washing caste ignorance mud
Clean by  theertha (holy water)  of science  vedantha!
………………………………..end……………………………….
Thaththarisu=shake,tremble,vibrate.   Dondi=panju,hilaalu,lamp.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
“Shall I live as animal with animals ?”
(translation of  poet walt witman’s   vachana poetry)
Translated to kannada:by dr.kuvempu
Retranslated to English :by dr.raveendra hosadurga.
………………………………………………………..
Shall I live like with animals as animal?to them how much peace,
how much satisfaction!
If I stand seing,even if hous hours pass (flow)
Time is not known(made out).
For our presence they won’t   boil with pity
Won’t   hit   mouth,won’t struggle.
Spoiling sleep through out night  won’t repent for sins.
Discussing about gods and religions won’t   trouble me.
Among them no overdesire  for anything ,they don’t want to
Become owners of any  things,have not spoiled head.
Even one won’t bend knee  in front of other.
Won’t fall to leg to either which are present now,
No to those which were living  centuries back.
No body have become sri sri sri;even if searched    no  sorrow of jealousy
Is got.none of them  carrying medals(awards) not risen to post of honour.
………………………………………….end……………………………….
Flower(puvu):
(first kuvempu’s kannada poetry)
Hey flower I listen
 Your song|
Hey flower will make to fail
I your love|

While you enjoy
Taking bath in  in snow|
While coming from work
 In evening  all people|

In leaf kokila
While playing flute|
Tender sunlight
While washing earth|

Poet high in lands
Shining by sun|
Decorating earth
Enlighting sweetly|

By joy of flowers
While seing ,enjoying|
“enjoy” flower telling
Spoken with  raga (love)|

 Gopala   geetha(song)
in lonely place
speaking with love
attracting heaven|

in forest birds
friend sweetly|
 mind tiring by song
calling  with satisfied mind|

 clouds in joy
appearing friwnd|
to see and enjoy
while walking on land|

in morning snow
walking on green|
in fearing  evening
 taking breath|

hey flower will listen
myself your song|
hey flower will make you fail
 I your love|
…………………………………….end………………………….

Some how,some thing, like that
Is responding like this
My chest’s  string(fibre,thread)
Standing beyond   logical intellect!
……………………….end…………………..
Koolu=hit,to loot,arrest.  Manmathe=my mother.
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