Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama

 

By

 

Sage Purandara Dasa

 

Translated by

 

P.R.Ramachander

 

Raga Vasantha

Thala Aadhi (Thisra)

 

Pallavi

 

Rama , Rama, Rama , Rama, eniro,sita

 

Anupallavi  

 

1.Nemadinda bhajisuvavara kamithagala  koduva nama

.
2.Amarapathiya divya nama andhu odagado

 

Charanam

 

1.Bharathi yamana bhattaru bandu horadu vendu metti tulidu

Koraligathma  seridaga , hariya dhyana bharadayya.

 

2.Indriyagalella kudi bandhu  tanuva musukidaga,

Sindhu sutheya  pathiya nama  andi goda galariyadayya

 

3.Shvasa kasa veradu  kantha vasavagi  silukudaga

Vasudeva Krishna  Nama  asamayakodhagayya

 

4. Srungarada dehavella  angabadindu  muridu biddu,

Kangaligathma  seridaga  Sri Rangana Nama  odagadayya

 

5.Vata pittaveradu  koodi  shleshma bandu  odagidaga,

Dhathu gundidaga  Raghu nadha dhyana  odagado

 

6. Kallu marananthe jiva nilladanthe  marana vyale,

Pullanbha Krsnaa nembo  sollu  bhavigoda gadaavya

 

7. Bharadi yamana bhataru  bandu horadivandu metari,

Muriyalu korali seridaga  hariya nama odagadho

 

8. Brashta janamadhalli bandu dushta karmagalane madi,

Bittu hogava  samaya Purandara Vittala  nama  odagadavya

                                 or

8.a Ketta janmadhalli putti  dushta karma madi  deha,

Bittu hoguvaga  Purandara Vittalana Nama Odagadho

                                  or

8.bIhadalli  ishtavanthu paradalli sukhavanthu vara,

Purandra vittalanna  Smarane bayige odagado.

 

English translation

 

Pallavi

 

Please tell  Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama, Sita

 

Anupallavi

 

1.The name that fulfills all wishes of those,

Who sing it along following  all  rules

 

2.Will not the name of the lord of Gods be useful on that day

 

Charanam

 

1.When the soldiers of Yama come and ask us to start,

And put the noose  and drag  the soul , the name of Hari does not come in mind

 

2.When all the organs have failed and start troubling the body,

The name of the husband of the daughter of the sea ,

Does not stick to the body and help you.

 

3.When the heart and the breath become one and starts  hardening,

The name of Krishna the son of Vasudeva  does not come to our help.

 

4.When all the organs of this pretty body fails and are  broken down,

And the soul reaches our eye, would the name of Ranga be of any help.

 

5.When air and bile   merges with phlegm and comes to an end,

And the virility is no more there , would meditating on name of Ranga  be of any help.

 

6.When the soul does not stand like stone or tree , and death approaches,

The words like Krishna and Padmanabha  are like stones thrown in a well

 

7.If the soldiers Of Yama come and threaten us  to start,

And  the voice is broken and takes the soul , would the name of Hari be of any help.

 

8.Having come in the useless body , having performed only bad acts,

At the time of parting  names of Purandara Vittala  would not help.

                                       Or

8.A.Having born in this worthless birth , having done only bad acts,

When going away, would name of Purandara Vittala be of any help

                                        Or

8.B.Having lived as we like in this world , to get pleasures in heaven,

Would the meditation of Purandara Vittala  help the mouth.