Translation of
vachanas uf poet dr.jayappa
honnali(jayakavi,mysuru) part 4 ‘ vachana-vandana’ by dr raveendra hosadurga
selected from samagrakaavya
‘kudalasangama’:
1)mind has become animal temple(zoo) ayya!
Dream has become birds temple ayya!
Heart becoming snake house(huttha),mind becoming pittha
Snakes of desire have
attacked around ayya!
Still desire of making body a temple
God show grace rudrathanaya.
2)
If rich beautiful female is seen open their mouth ayya!
If burning rich money is seen ope their mouth ayya!
Piercing drinks foam
open their mouth ayya!if found
If real rich stream jade(tuft of hair) is seen in your
womb(garbhagudi) of temple
Not seen anybody opening their mouth ayya!
Rudrathanaya.
3)if struggled hard can stand on top(netthi) Himalaya ayya!
Can swim sea channel(kadalgaaluve) ayya!
Among difficulties very difficult is one only!
To speak as walked,to behave
as spoken!
Make me like that to
talk as behaved,like that only behaving as talked
Rudrathanaya.
4)if you are beautiful
World ,people are beautiful ayya!
To membrane eye will clear picture appear!?
In oiled mirror will clear picture appear!?
as is your vision so is figure ,see rudrathanaya.
as is your vision so is figure ,see rudrathanaya.
5)when not able
to walk by leg,,when not able to labour
by hand
When not able to see by eye,,when cal is coming from soil
Telling venkata is only for troble
Not for nearness see rudrathanaya.
6)those who have broken hundred houses building one temple
for you
Are called high
divine devotees ayya!
Without believing godliness (divinity), shining humanity
living in disinterest(nishkaama) in your real
god traiters,least as
they are called ayya
cause for this is shortage(deficiency) of enquiry see ayya
rudrathanaya.
7)to believed
man one guru
For filled up(complete) guru
one hara
To harihara love earth is example
To guru hara love kindness is example
Guru who shows right,guru who shows goal
Guru who shows hara is hara even to hara see rudrathanaya.
8) shiva your kindness has blown as air ayya!
shiva your kakkalathe,has flown as river ayya!
Shiva your kindness has grown as crop ayya!
Shiva your heart and mindhas become earth and sky ayya!
Shiva your eye e sun and moon are open ayya!
Rudrathanaya.
9)excessive beauty
became problem to seethe
Excessive ego(ahamkara) ate head of ten headed(ravana)
Over fascination
brought end to keechaka
Excessive ego(aham)challenge,strength,land
Reduced (made)dhuryodhana to dust!
excess donation took
sacrice of bali!
Without limit if
excess amrutha is poison see
Limitedness is fate(moovment) of real(nija) rudrathanaya.
10)if not going as guest,gone excess
Everywhere ill respect see ayya!
To forest dweller,sandal available daily
Becoming natural wood rudrathanaya.
11)why is mata without guru?
Why is jiva(ghata) without goal?
If there are no guru and goal both
In standing place only becomingox and servant(daasa,slave)
Have to rotate
keeping real away
Upfaced moovment is life see ayya rudrathanaya
13)why to worldlord
is needed udi(lap,saree
border?),,temple!?
head hair, naivedya (ede) !?
head hair, naivedya (ede) !?
Keep mind pure(madi) enough,world itself is place of lord
Has he death and
pain!?beyond all
Is it possible for us
to submit!?rudrathanaya.
14)you are spoiling me at depth
Troubling has made to
fall spoiled!
Low has become charming
patience is spoiled
(…………………………………………………………………………………?.)
Let life be blessed rudrathanaya.
15)those who are
favourable are mine ayya
Those who are not favourable to me are yours ayya !?
Shall I hate your people!?
Shall I love my people only!?
no no ayya
no no ayya
Never acceptable
ayya!
Rudrathanaya.
16)i am alone here,in my mind and body
Without giving me company where are you!?
searching with closed eyes,opening eyes in all
searching with closed eyes,opening eyes in all
Give friendship on earth,shining in heart and mind
Before becoming dust
and going rudrathanaya.
17)no good behavior from me towards you
When black is surrounding,mistake to step and step
How shall I moov,how shall join you?
come and recognize
yourself,consoling correcting
showing towards where
rudrathanaya.
18)in trouble confusion
I am bald cow
For guts(intestine) calves,mind becoming mad monkey
Holding little life(prana)
am breathing
Paths of
castes(votes) have upset intellect
Come and strengthen me,come
make me challenging
Showing real(nija) ,emiting smile rudrathanaya.
19)bad having body ,if no strength
Bad having mind if no respect(honour)
Having money id bad
if no donation
My presence is bad,if you are not there
Your presence is bad if you are not in me
Rudrathanaya.
20)without knowing oneself,what they will know you!?
Without singing fate(paadu) without living song
Tear (do)rhythm(thaala) archestra(mela) hey,destroyer
Where are these ?where are you!?
Coming around
Towards these except
fo destruction
Rudrathanaya.
21)how can snakes and
lizards watch (protect) insects!?
Fox sheep monkeys
will protect garden!?
how will tiger deer crocodiles join union!?
how will tiger deer crocodiles join union!?
Girth,anger,stomach,keeping together left
By that only got spoiled,becoming three path(troubled)
Show kindness show
path towards you
Rudrathanaya.
22)day without laugh,is
loosing day
Laugh and making others to laugh mature,while layghing bend
Moov towards where shout comes
Heavan opens,laughing calls
Laugh itself is heaven
rudrathanaya.
23)which is yours?earth
cloud(sky),air!?
Before you were they not there!?
is water yours?is
town yours?
Pulling are seasons daily chariot!
All nature is poetry of god
This Life is
festival ,loose blurness
Singing fate(condition) to him rudrathanaya.
24)on boiling dirty
water also flies as steam ayya!
Rising above in sky becomes vast(deep) ayya!
to loose dirt boil of difficulty is needed
to gold of life,to shine (river)and shine!
To rise
above to become cloud!
To become high(supreme) rudrathanaya.
25)To fish, who
swimed and showd how to swim!?
To kokila song who
hit and told!?
geejaga’s nest who knit and showd!?
geejaga’s nest who knit and showd!?
Dance to peacock who danced and showd !?
Are you not guru,world guru
of world!
Without learning from you
Have anybody seen kailasa!?
Rudrathanaya.
26)26)will kokila wait?for song listeners
Will peacoco wait? For dance viewers
Our work we should do
mindful
Fliing body,believing real,filling strength,filling prana
(life)
For praise (appreciation)
without desiring for dirt
Without looking at people for returns
Dis interest(niskaama) shiva dharma(religion) !
rudrathanaya.
27)why life ?without feel
Why teachinh ?without practice(achievement)
Why science?without sujnana(good jnana)
Why development(abundance) without culture
Why independence (freedom) ?without courtesy
Why more(elephant)
money? Without real guna
Why family ?without predisposition(samskaara)
Without shiva all is deadbody(cadaver) rudrathanaya.
28)why desire of devotion to you ayya !?
why desire of liberation to you aya!?
why desire of liberation to you aya!?
You came to send,you came to make stand
If called see I
came,now only behind you
When like this why desire of
japa(chant),penance to you!?
is praise,sthrothra, appreciation by me needed!?
my eternal(daily) pure life is it not enough ayya!?
is praise,sthrothra, appreciation by me needed!?
my eternal(daily) pure life is it not enough ayya!?
Prepare (ready) truth rudrathanaya.
29)inside writing there should be writer
I preaching(teaching) there should be practice(saadhana)
Should live write,should achieve and teach
In written writing
should have shown himself
When like this he
will study ,comes himself and listens
Believes,likes,,likes withot missing
Rudrathanaya.
30)without pure self worshiping god
false telling tongue chanting manthra daily
stealing killinghand
keeping flower
adultrating
selling giving heavy
gift(domation)
in black money building
stone temple
wishing wicked (bad) to others, remembering god
kidnapping other’s
(things) doing donation and homour
pole(polar) distance to god rudrathanaya.
(no number)
Lips won’t get cut,teeth does not fall
For good nongood is not seen,won’t trouble
Are representative of of people and god(janatha god)
Will become close (to god) rudrathanaya.
31) sharanas have no death,sharana’s won’t die
After moving and maturing ,won’t wait in body
Steam of water moving
loosing dirt
Becoming cloud
itself
Will leave dead body(cadaver) becoming
shiva moov towards shiva
Will go as truth(will really go)
Become thavanidhi
(your treasure,god’s) made from bhavanidhi(treasure of this world)
Rudrathanaya.
32)calling youself ‘sinner’ is sin
Bad luck is waste cry
To call week is curse
given by you to yourself!
Inner self is
god form!
When like this how you are poor,ugly!?
you know yourself,blend with shiva
you know yourself,blend with shiva
Who are equal to you
rudrathanaya.
33)to become god is easy see ayya!
To become man is hang(difficult,troublesome,problematic)
see ayya!
If died enough will
become god here!
In rumours,in blind beliefs
Climb wall here ,will join temple here
Where ignorance stagnating standing here and there
Till this a man who has found this bhava(this world)
Basava,basava,basavanna,basava!your basava our basava
rudrathanaya.
34)to tell one human dharma
Two is demon’s dharma
Birth is god’s dharma
To die is devil’s dharma
Kindness is theme of
dharma(religion),fearlessness is
hurulu(summary )
35thae lamo which which lightens,enlightens other lamp also
Lamp which doesn’t
lighten itself,won’t enlight other lamp
If guru enlightens disciple will also lighens
If guru do not lighten
how can disciple lighten!?
Guru learns daily,guru teaches truth
Rudrathanaya.
36)to give light to
world,sun burns himself ayya!
To give water for people
cloud gets melted by itself ayya1
Like that high people becoming campher
by themselves
To remoov dark burn as lamps ayya!
Give light and moov awayayya rudrathanaya.
37)how much may be faces of light!?
at source light is one only is it not!?
at source light is one only is it not!?
How much ever may be faces of water!?
At source water is
only one!?
how many may be faces of soil!?
how many may be faces of soil!?
Original is only
one!?
How many mabe facas of god!?
at source god is only one is it not!?rudrathanaya.
at source god is only one is it not!?rudrathanaya.
38)if you give give
silence of trees
Give dog’s faith;give milk chest of cow
Ethics of crow’s
meals,laughing flower’s love
Along with basava
devotion,give lifting power
To me provide worship of work
Chennaiah nannaiah rudrathanaya.
39)without leaving desire what is by worship(upaasana)!?
Without leaving hatred,what is by dress and hair!?
without showing real goal what if guru exists!?
without becoming patriot,what if he is god’s devotee!?
without showing real goal what if guru exists!?
without becoming patriot,what if he is god’s devotee!?
Without leaving selfishness what if anything be!?
That is life of chameleon rudrathanaya.
40)let world blame,put in flame
without making to leave ethics and lovemake to speak truth ayya!
let world pierce,let
world tear
make human religion mine ayya!
according to life witness(jeeva saakshi) retaining sincerity
make to walk towards rudrathanaya.
41)god given nature dharma(religion)!
to retain,making to grow,to protect is our dharma(duty)
if estroyed it is our karma!
Enforcing karma can’t protect dharma
Karma for karma,dharma for dharma!
Is tied up food carrier(butthi) rudrathanaya.
42)real shiva sharanas are worshipable vachana
composers(makers)
Wrote as they lived,lived as they wrote
What ever they told
became ‘place’ by themselves
making themselves as example got matured
informing real(nija)
swinging,bending moved towards real
rudrathanaya.
43)what if wherever we are?what if how we are?
If I am present,you are also present!?
sharanu to your kindness
sharanu to your kindness
Sharanu to management
Sharanu to creation,devotion
sharanu to
logic(yukthi,technique) of maintainance(sthithi)
sharanu to power of destruction
for liberation(freedom,freeness,liberationness) sharanu
sharanu!
Rudrathanaya.
44)you are fathermyou are mother
If so where is
distance!?
WITHOUT MYSELF CALLING WON’T YOU COME!?
AT LEAST AFTER CALLING
YOU WOULD HAVE COME!?
CONTINEOUSLY SEARCHING ,MISSING NEST AND PATH
CALLING MOTHER…..!FATHER…!
Hesitating crying
Excusing me if there
is any mistake
Lift up showing love
Without forgetting
mother’s ethics
Rudrathanaya.
45)sharanu to work(kaayaka)-your place appears!
Sharanu to jnana(knowledge of reality)-your brightness
appears!
Sharanu to sathya-your form appears!
Sharanu to kindness –yourcharecter appears!
Sharanu to you only-shows me!
Rudrathanaya.
46)even in graveyard no silence ayya!
People are competing with jeerunde(insect)!
Where is loneliness,where is comedy!/
All are only tragidies without knowledge
What if lived?what if
died?
All are dead bodies withot shiva!
Freeness is
joy heaven!
Rudrathanaya.
47)if we do illhelp for help oqwards paathala(deep depth)
If help is done for help towards sky
If for illhelp help is done to towards you!
Make me to become
towards you
My mind
Rudrathanaya.
48)shiva when your kindness is towards me
Graveyard (useless) rich,desert stream
Rain in white sky(cloud),crop in barren land
Blavk stone sugar(kallusakkare),clear world affection
Rudrathanaya.
49)what if how many lamps burn are they equal to sun!?
what if how many ruvers flow are they equal to sea(nadeepa)!?
what if how many ruvers flow are they equal to sea(nadeepa)!?
What if how many devotees come are they equal to bhakyhi
bhandari!?
To incomparable anna(brother) comparison
feasible!?(suitable)
Not proper remoov rudrathanaya.
50)dharma means donation of kindness love ayya!
Real ethics and love of lifting fallen people ayya!
Walking stick to lame,becoming itself leg
Blesses holding lifting up
those who sliped ayya!
Melting coming difficulty,pouring kindness
Stands as moon in dark
ayya rudrathanaya.
51)alone at birth,lonely at death
In between in life,why is show off of sin!?
When body mind and talk are your own
What ever happens if your pwn play!
Why will others carry
your karmas murder(……………?)(gole?)
Let there be discrimination of good and bad(right and wrong)
Eat what ever is
done maharaya,remember
Rudrathanaya.
52)not expanding on appreciation,not shrinking on blame
Not adjusting to both poverty and richness
What ever comes
not getting depressed
Never bending to inhumanity
Except you not bending(yielding) to anybody
Give athna(self) power rudrathanaya.
53)god’s dharma(religion) itself is nature
If we protect it
It protects us
If not protected that will also not protect
For good work good is result!
For bad work bad is result!
As you sow so you reap rudrathanaya.s
54)if you leave hand environment also leaves hand
If you hold environment will also hold hand mutually
‘if you save save,if you destroy destroy’
is singing keeping to bird good note(susvara)!
At least now man says
without lifting bad note
Save and get yourself saved, god only is environment!
Rudrathanaya.
55)no god in temple oly,in temple als there I god
No god in statue
only,in statue also there is god
When he is everywhere,is he not in temple statue!?
has not he done in man also!?
has not he done in man also!?
He is consciousness
in innerdepth(antharaala)
For those who have
become conscious he is known to
them! rudrathanaya.
56)no god’s figure (picture) any where
No image,no statue
Not seen by eye,not accessible to imagination
All what appears is god’s symbol!
Which power is seen
by eye that is world(loha)that power is god
Rudrathanaya.
57)who is valiant?is one who has win external enemy!?
Winning fort and dooms who has extended country!?
than outside enemity,inner enemy is vicked
than outside enemity,inner enemy is vicked
Know that arishadvrga is inner enemy
You are real hero after hiding them rudrathanaya.
58)you grace for only comtineous trial
Not for mere worship ayya
You grace only to labour(shrama)
Not for ashrama(rushi’s residence) ayya
You are searched (found)in work(kaayaka)
Not in kailasa rudrathanaya.
59)for sweat bath(abhisheka) graces gangadhara
For butter bath(abhisheka) he will moov away
What is to be buttered is heart and mind ayya
Without sweating why to smear(appley) butter ayya!?
Sweat is ganga’s place,place of shiva clever
Know and see ayya rudrathanaya.
60)thirsty I without drinking water myself
How if others drink
ayya?
Hungry myself I don’t take food(rice)
What if somebody eats ayya!?
Satisfaction is got by others
Will it be for me
tell ayya!?
Similarly without doing worship myself
If got done by others no fruit ayya
For those who do by
themselves rudrathanaya.
61)kokila kid grown in crow’s nest did it become crow?
Kokila only!food(gutuku) of crow’s mouth
Did it bring crow’s
tone?other than kokila’s!
Born character won’t hide ayya ,life character won’t moov
ayya
For ever rudrathanaya.
62)sharana means who are surrendered to shiva
Lived as shiva,lived as shiva
Breathing shiva onlyplayed behavior and word
Finding kailasa in
work, those who have eaten
Not dieing becoming
shiva,moved for shiva only
Without holding fist of death,have joined shiva’s head
rudrathanaya.
63)wirhout trial requesting success
Apart from yaapya
(…………..?) yayavara ayya(………..?)
Without sowing seed,without pouring labour water
Only ploughing only land desiring crops
Will get fruitless like illusioned ayya! Rudrathanaya.
64)even gods hoe they are great ayya!
They are under
control of viveki(sense of right
and wrog)vidhi(fate)!
Even that fate is how greater ayya?
Gives fruit according
to work!
When it is like that what is use anybody ayya?
For this and other world(iha and para) work is end promise
For god also same ladder ! rudrathanaya.
65)for non good work tell tomorrow ayya
For all good works tell now today ayya!
Today’s time treasure is our’s
Will it come tomorrow!?fate won’t answer
Let do and die,like this time also won’t wait
Today only is ours rudrathanaya.
66)for one who has no body
strength,for one who has no body strength
From where is moon strength!?from where is star strength!?
when there is no self(athma) strength,from where is god’s strength!?
when there is no self(athma) strength,from where is god’s strength!?
Good deed is happiness,bad deed is sorrow!
all are kaayaka fruit
rudrathanaya.
67)champaka of joined hands(palms)(bogase) without
considering left and right
Smears jof fragrance by touch only to both hands!
Natural character of gentlemen is to share love to all ayya!
Without considering
poor and rich,good and bad people
Shows no differentiation ! rudrathanaya.
68)becomimg guru is
by realization of real
Not possible by birth
relation ayya
Becoming jangama(mobile) is by losing ignorance(jadathe)
not possible by caste,dharma(religion) dresses ayya
becoming world guru
is by showing goal to world
not possible by peetaarohana(rising of holy throne,chair) ayya
to join god is by self(athma) only
not possible by body ayya….deadbody won’t become shiva
rudrathanaya.
69)friendship of bad people is like shadow of morning
When happiness comes appears big ayya!
Difficult severesunlight pouring sun coming to top(netthi)
becomes small
and small moves
joining death ayya!
friendship of good people is like afternoon’s shadow!
Appears first in difficulty only ayya
As time passes grows remains making to grow ayya!
Rudrathanaya.
70)one who becomes famous by himself is better
Who becomes famous by mother and father is middle(medium)
If by friends and relatives is low(adhama)
by mother and father in-laws and by surrounding people
is low among low
ayya!
Fame given by others is
not for para(other world) ayya ,rudrathanaya.
71)those who have left selfishness are good people(sathpurushas) ayya!
Without little selfishness of family
Those who try for para (other world) are ordinary ayya!
Achieving full selfishness ,violating others
Demons in the form of
man,complete ghosts ayya!
Kill selfish rudrathanaya.
72)virtuous man shows shows charecters(good) only
Wheather in trouble or in joy
Wheather dieing or taking rebirth
Wheather in change9vikara,ugliness) or in expansion
Wheather in metamorphosis
or only form(rupu) remaining
Remains only for help like moon!
such people’s
thalegoyva( carrying to head?) making to shine maintaining
make son shiva! Rudrathanaya.
73)if sharana basavanna is called brahmana
If bodhi Buddha is
called kshathriya
If mohanachanda(Gandhi) is called vyshya
Bhima ambedkar is called ubtouchable
He is resident of dark see ayya!
Kupa manduka(frog in pond) see ayya!
Who emited kindness and peace,who announced truth and
equality
Are god’s dharma
people,human caste!
God’s caste,universal community(belong to)!
Are of worldlords(vishwanathas) rudrathanaya .
74)will not bird get caught into danger!?
Will not fish of deep sea get caught by danger!?
superior and inferior
is not available in danger
that also comes without showing differentiation
is democracy is
wicked than that!?
Will not danger laugh again!?rudrathanaya.
75)caste should be measured by ethics
Should not be measured by birth ayya
In world only two castes
Way of dark and light,caste of good light!
Bad is dark caste! Love is equal god’s ethics!
Rudrathanaya.
76)to air blowing for life which dharma?
Pouring water protecting
cloud which is caste!?
To earth Giving rice(food) protecting which community!?
To light reducing dark is caste along with!?
to world honouring all friends all world is theirs
to world honouring all friends all world is theirs
By differentiating
enemies sorrow has emited here
differentiation bringing famine,veda bringing rainy season
Bring harvaest of crop of equality rudrathanaya.
77)vachana means talk(words)-all talk is not vachana
Vachana means language-all languages are not vachanas
Vachana means prana evidence,nystic nysticisn
Meditation upon
athma(self),following god! Rudrathanaya.
78)i am a fool (dullard) not knowing wife!
husband I am dullard not knowing you!
Can’t stay towards her,here only huttha(snakehouse) of
desires!
Can’t come towards you,there only illusion around!
Neither this side nor that side,pillar I an,if mud covering
Don’t know on which to tilt,logicless foolish sum
Make me to deviate(tilt) towards real rudrathanaya.
79)rice of mother and father in laws,insect fallen food
Rice(food) of grandfather and mother,sour food
Rice of father and mother,old rice(yesterday’s)!
Only Food earned by
self,is energy givjng hot rice
Thinking like that,desiring that only
Giving naivedya(food offer)
to athma(self) and god
Your real sharana! Rudrathanaya.
80)desire of land and house to happy family holder
Desire of mata and temple to bliss saint
Desire of stomach and cloth,to happy poor
Desire of prestige and respect to happy rich
Desire of status and position to happy rular
Desire of liberation to happy mumukshu(desirer of
liberation)
Where is life without desire here!?
why did you spill only desire in life!?
Therefore you are cause of my spoiling!?
How I am cause!? Rudrathanaya.
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