translation of vachanas (vachana-vandana) of dr.jayappa honnali(jayakavi,mysuru) by dr.raveendrahosadurga selected from samagrakaavya'kaavyakudala:

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.

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) !?

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

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

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!?

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!?

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!?

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!?

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

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!?

How much ever may be faces of water!?

At source water is  only one!?
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.

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 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 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 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!?

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

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!?

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

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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