tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20593293790017504372024-03-13T12:34:38.741+08:00kannadasansongsI grew up with the comforting, encouraging, optimistic, uplifting, inspirational, empathetic, humourous (among other adjectives) lyrics of Kannadasan, the genius poet of the Tamil silver screen.Here I’m attempting to translate some his songs that affected me deeply (and still do), because I think his songs should reach even those who don’t understand Tamil.Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-57268615191316066172021-02-16T15:45:00.008+08:002022-06-11T17:15:17.987+08:00Ullam Enbadhu aamai<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Ullam enbadhu aamai</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhil unmai enbadhu oomai</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sollil varuvadhu paadhi</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nenjil thoongi kidappadhu needhi</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The heart is like a tortoise</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(In it) truth lies mute</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Words express only half</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What remains dormant is the truth (what’s just)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dheivam endraal adhu dheivam</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verum silai endraal adhu silaidhaan</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Undu endraal adhu undu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Illai endraal adhu illai</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Illai endraal adhu illai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you say it’s God, it is God</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Or if you say it’s only a statue, then it’s only a statue</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you say it is, it is</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you say it isn’t, then it isn’t.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Undu means it is there or it exists, illai means no, or it’s not there)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanneer thaNal pol eriyum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Senthalum neer pol kulirum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nanbanum pagai pol theriyum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhu naal pada naal pada puriyum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">naal pada naal pada puriyum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cool water will feel like hot coal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hot coal will feel like cool water</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Friend will seem enemy</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That will be clearer (to understand) as days go by</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-3345517215393998172021-02-16T15:35:00.004+08:002021-02-16T15:35:40.130+08:00Paramasivan kazhuthil irundhu<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Paramasivan kazhuthil irundhu</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paambu kaettadhu ‘Garuda sowkyama?’</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Yaarum irukkum idathil irundhu vittaal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ellam sowkyame’ Garudan sonnadhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhil altham ulladhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From around Lord Shiva’s neck,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The snake asked Garuda (its arch enemy), ‘Are you well?’</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘When everyone is where they are supposed to be</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Everyone (everything) will be well’ replied Garuda</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s deep meaning in that</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uyarndha idathil irukkum bodhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ulagam unnai madhikkum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Un nilamai konjam irangi vandhaal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nizhalum kooda midhikkum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Madhiyadhaar midi vassal midhikadhae endru</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maanam ulla manidhanuku Avvai sonnadhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhu Avvai sonnadhu adhil artham ulladhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When you’re on top (of the rung/world)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The whole world will respect you</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But when you’re down</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even your shadow will step on you</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Do not even step on the entrance-stone of</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those who disrespect you’ said Avvai (an ancient poet)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is a great meaning in that</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vande oda chakkarangal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Irandu mattum vendum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Andha irandil ondru</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Siriyadh endral</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Endha vandi odum?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unai polae alavodu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uravada vendum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uyarndhorum thaazhndhorum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uravu kolvadhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhu sirumai enbadhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a vehicle to run</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It needs two wheels</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If one of them is small</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How will it run?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You should move with people of your standing</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For any relationship between </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">those on high levels and those on low levels</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is indeed lowly</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Sirumai is smallness, in this case lowliness)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neeyum naanum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Saerndh irundhom</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nilavum vaanum polae</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Naan nilavu pola</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Theyndhu vandhaen</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nee valarndha dhaale</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">En ullam ena paarthu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keli seyyum podhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Illadhaan il vaazhvil</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nimmadhi yeah</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idhu kanavan sonnadhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhil altham ulladhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You and I were together</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like sky and moon,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I waned like the moon</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As you grew (waxed)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When my heart, looking at me mockingly</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How can there be peace </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the life of a householder</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is said by your husband</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And there’s deep meaning in that.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Illadhan means a man with nothing, ILvaazhvu is householder’s life)</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-9554551363473235672021-02-16T14:18:00.003+08:002021-02-16T14:18:31.396+08:00Satti suttadhada kai vittadhada<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Satti suttadhada</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kai vittadhada </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Buddhi kettadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nenjai thottadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Naalum nadandhu mudindha pinnal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nalladhu kettadhu therindhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The pot burnt (my) hand</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The hand dropped it</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Intellect was ruined</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Touched (my) heart</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After everything was done and dusted </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Got t know right and wrong</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[‘naalum’ meaning four things. This is a recurring number/word in local parlance. ‘naalu paer' means four people which refers to all known and unknown people, as in what will people say will be ‘naalu paer enna sollvanga?. Here ‘naalum’ means all, everything]</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paadhi manadhil dheivam irundhu paarthu kondadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meedhi mandhil mirugam irundhu aati vaithadhada </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aatti vaitha mirugam indru adangi vittadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aatti vaitha mirugam indru adangi vittadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Amaidhi dheivam muzhu manadhil kovil kondadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In one half of the heart, Divinity stayed and looked after it</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the other half, Animal (tendencies) took over and controlled it</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The animal that made me sway has subsided (today)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">God of peace has taken up the whole of (my) heart</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aaravaara paeygal ellam oadi vittadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aaalaya mani oasi nenjil koodi vittadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dharma dhevan kovilile oli thulangudhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dharma dhevan kovilile oli thulangudhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manam santhi, santhi, santhi endru oayvu kondadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Noisy, boisterous ghosts have run away</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Temple bells (and their calming sounds) have come together (in me)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The light of Dharma deva (god of righteousness) is shining (in my heart)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heart (in fullness) rests, saying ‘Peace, Peace, Peace’ </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Erumbu tholai urithu paarka yaanai vandhadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idhaya tholai urithu paarka gnanam vandhadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pirakkum mundane irundha ullam indra vandhadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Irandha pinnae varum amaidhi vandhu vitadhada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Skinning the ant, came the elephant</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Skinning (my) heart came wisdom</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The heart (that was) before being born has come</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The peace that comes after death has come.</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-90701368012595379842021-02-16T11:57:00.001+08:002021-02-16T11:57:16.533+08:00Ponal Pogattum Poda<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[A word about ‘da’ (masculine) and ‘di’ (feminine). These are terms of endearment between close friends and relatives but are insults between strangers. When Kanandasan uses it, in most songs, like this one and ‘yaarada manidhan ange’, it is a form of frustration, disenchantment and disillusion. ]</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ponaal pogattum poda </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Indha boomiyil nilayai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaazndhavar yaarada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(When it’s gone) Let it go</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Tell me) who has lived forever</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On this earth?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vandhadhu theriyum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Povadhu enge</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vazhkai namakke theriyadhu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vandhavar ellam thangi vittaal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Indha mannil namakke idamadhu? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We know where we came from </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We know not where we are going</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If everyone who came here </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stayed back </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Where’s the space for all of us? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Life is a business </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(In it) Birth is income </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Death is expense</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Iraval thandhavan ketkindraan</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhai illai yendral avan viduvaana </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uravail solli azhuvadhanale </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uyorai meendum tharuvana </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kookuralale kidaikkadhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idhu courtukku ponaal jaikaadhu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Andha kottayil nuzhaindhal thirumbaadhu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The lender asks for it (what you borrewed) back </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Will he take no for an answer?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you cry and wail citing how closely you’re related (to the dead)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Will he (lord of death) give the life back?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hollering won’t bring it back </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neither can you win it in a court of law </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When it enters that fortress (of death/afterlife),</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It won’t come back. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Elumbukkum sadhaikkum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maruthuvam kanden </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idharkoru marundhai kandena </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Irundhal avalai thannan thaniyae </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">eriyum neruppil viduvena?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Namakkum mele oruvanada </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Avan naalum therindha kalaignanda</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dhinam naadagam aadum thalavanada </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I found cure for bones and flesh</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But did I find a cure for this (death)? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If I had, would I leave her all alone on the burning pyre? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is someone above all of us all</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He knows everything </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And plays this game every day</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">[Kalaignan is an expert, a professional artiste. In this song the hero is a doctor and his wife dies young.]</span> </span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-16952323502210437942021-02-16T11:37:00.002+08:002021-02-16T11:37:11.035+08:00Veedu varai uravu<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Classic. It’s based on a local custom according to which, when the man of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: large;">house dies, the relatives can only come till the entrance of the house, the wife </span><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: large;">can only come till the end of the street and only sons are allowed till the </span><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: large;">grave. It’s also mentioned in a Siddha poem.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aadiya aattam enna </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">paesiya vaarthai enna </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thediya selvam enna </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thirandodhor sutram enna </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koodu vittu aavi ponal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koodave varuvadhenna? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Aattam literally means dance, or shaking. It also means the dance of the ego/arrogance which makes people do the things they do when money and power g to their heads. Much like how a spinning top is in motion only till the energy is exhausted.]</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What (are all the) dance(s) we danced</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What are all (the words) we said </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What (are all the different types of) wealth we accumulated </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How many in the name of relatives came looking for and surrounded us</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But when the soul leaves the body </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What comes along? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Veedu varai uravu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Veedhi varai manaivi</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kaadu varai pillai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kadaisi varaai yaaro?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Till the house, the relatives </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Till the street end, the wife </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Till the grave, the son </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Till the end, who? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aadum varai aattam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aayirathil naattam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koodi varum kootum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kolli varai varuma? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Again, ‘aattam’ here, same meaning]</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We dance (our egoistic dance) till we can (are exhausted),</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With our mind chasing a thousand things </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The crowd that seeks and surrounds us (when we have everything)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Will it come till the grave? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thotilukku annai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kattilukku kanni</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pattinukku theeni </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ketta pinbu gnani </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the cradle, mother </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the bed, woman</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For hunger, food </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After everything’s ruined, wisdom </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Poet says gnani meaning wise man, but wisdom sounds better here)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sendravanai kettal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">vandhu vidu enban </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vandhavani kettal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sendru vidu enban </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sendru vids unban</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ask the departed</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He will say come with me </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ask the newborn </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He will say go back </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-83243716943642569592021-02-16T11:23:00.002+08:002021-02-16T11:23:26.689+08:00Vandha naan mudhal <p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Vandha naal mudhal</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">indha naal varaai</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaanam maara villai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaan madhiyum meenum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">kadal kaatrum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Malarum mannum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">kodiyum solayum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">nadhyium maaravillai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mandihan maari vittaan</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Madhathil eri vittan </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From the day we came here (to the earth)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Till today </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The sky hasn’t changed</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The moon in the sky, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the stars, the fish, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the oceans, the wind </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The flowers, the earth, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The creepers, the gardens, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the rivers</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Haven’t changed </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But Man has changed</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He has climbed on (tree that is) religion</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nilai maarinaal gunam maaruvan</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Poi needhiyum naermayum thaeduvan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dhinam jaadhiyum bedhamum kooruvan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhu vedham vidhi endr(u) odhuvan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manidhan maari vittan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Madhathil eri vittan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When his status (in life) changes,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So will his character</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He will search for false justice and honesty,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every day he will preach </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">About caste and (other) differences </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He will say it’s the law of God</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(and say) it’s all fate </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Man has (indeed) changed </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He has climbed on (tree that is) religion </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paravayai kandaan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vimaanam padaithaaan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paayum meenil</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Padaginai kandan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Edhiroli kettan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaanoli padaithaan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Edhanai kandan madham thanaipadaithan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Edhani kandaan panam thanai padaithaan? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manidhan maari vittan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He saw the bird and invented the plane </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He saw the fish and invented the ship </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The echo he heard and he invented radio </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What did he see that made him invent religion?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What did he see that made him invent money? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Man has changed</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[NOTE: In the original lyrics it says ‘madhanthanai’ meaning religion’ but it seems the censor board didn’t want that word so the poet changed it to ‘panandhanai’ meaning money. They sound similar so it doesn’t jar on the ear.]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Inbamum kaadhalaum iyarkayin needhi</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Etra thaazhvugal manidhanin jaadhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paaril iyarkai padaithadhai ellam</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paavi manidhan pirithu vaithane </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happiness and love are the law of Nature </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ups and downs are innate in Man </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(poet says ‘jaadhi’ usually meaning caste but in this context it means what you are born with)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All that Nature created on this earth</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The sinner, Man, has divided and separated</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Man has changed.</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-81979948582550308252021-02-16T10:59:00.001+08:002021-02-16T10:59:21.174+08:00Maalai pozhudhin mayakkathilae<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">[A wonderful song, beautifully rendered and the last stanza will stay with you for the rest of your life]</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maalai pozhudhin mayakkathile </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Naan kanavu kanden thozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manadhil irundhum vaarthaigalillai</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kaaranam en thozhi?</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Inbam sila naal thunbam sila naal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Endradhu yaar thozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Inbam kanavil thunbam edhiril</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kanbadhum en ehozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[while ‘mayakkam’ means faint or confused state, it is also applied to times of day. Here the poet says the evening time, twilight more specifically to be in that state. Think of it as when you wake up from a deep afternoon slumber and how you feel when you wake up, it’s sort of pleasant but dizzy. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The word ‘thozhi’ means girl friend. It dates back to ancient literature when the lady waiting for her lover to come back from his sojourns would lament to her dearest friend.]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the dizzying twilight of evening</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had a dream girl</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No words issued from my heart </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why is that so, girl? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who said pain is for a few days</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And pleasure longer, friend? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please (I find) in dreams,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And pain in front (of me, as reality)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why does it seem like that, girl?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manamudithavar pol </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">arugunile oru vadivu kanden thozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mangay en kayil kungumam thandhaar </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">maalyittar thozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vazhimarandheno vandhavar nenjil saayndhu vitten thozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Avar maraven maraven endrar udane </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">marandhu vittar thozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Parandhuvittar thozhi</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I saw someone next to me</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who liked like my husband </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He put kumkum (vermillion) in my hand</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Put garland (around my neck)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Did I forget my way (where I was going or coming)? (also could mean did I forget my manners of being a lady?)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I rested on the chest (of the man who came)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Never will I forget you’, said he</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But immediately forgot </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And flew away! </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kanavinil vandhavar yaarena kaeten </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kanavar endrar thozhi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kanavar endral avar kanavu mudindhadhum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pirindhadhu En thozhi?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ilamai ellam verum kanavu mayam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhil maraindhadhu sila kaalam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thelivum ariyadhu mudivum theriyadhu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mayangadhu edhir kaalam</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The one who came in my dream</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I asked who he was, girl</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He said he was my husband</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But if he was, then why did he leave</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">once the dream was over, friend?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Youth is just an empty, vacuous dreamy state, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In disappears part of our time (on earth),</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Without knowing clarity </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and without knowing (where and how it will all) end </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Swoons the future. </span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-91635708619081786502021-02-16T10:32:00.000+08:002021-02-16T10:32:01.422+08:00Manidhanai ninaipadhundu<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Manidhan</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span><span style="font-family: Avenir;">ninaipadhundu</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(I’m translating the first two stanzas that have excellent meaning)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manidhan ninaipadhundu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaazhvu nilaikkum endru</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Iraivan ninaipadhundu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paavam manidhan endru </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Man might think Life will go on (forever )</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">God might think ‘poor man’ (as in he doesn’t know what’s going to hit him)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thandhai tahavaru seidhaan </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thaayum idam koduthaal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vandhu pirandhu vittom </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verum bandham valarthu vittom </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manadhu thudikindradhu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mayakkam varugindradhu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Azhudhu laabam enna </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Avan aatchi nadakindradhu </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Father made a mistake </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mother gave room for it </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We were born as a result</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And nurtured empty, meaningless bonds </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(My) heart is beating fast</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(I) feel faint</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What’s the point of crying now</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His (God’s) rule is reigning </span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-49771691229277741682021-02-16T10:26:00.004+08:002021-02-16T10:26:30.897+08:00Year andha nilavu<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 13px;">A favourite of mine. This song is about a man who marries a blind girl who is waiting for the friend of the hero and hasn’t seen or heard him in ages. Due to some twist of fate, the friend is not able to make it back home and the hero is forced to meet her and she thinks it’s the friend, and he married her out of compulsion.</span><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 13px;"> </span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaar andha nilavu</span></span></div><div>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaen indha kanavu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaaro solla yaaro endru </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaaro vandha uravu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kaalam seiydha kolam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ingu naan vandha varavu</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[It is customary for poets to equate women with the moon]</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who’s that moon (girl)?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why this dream? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hearing (someone say it’s one person)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Seeing it’s someone else</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Someone else (totally different, this new relationship) came (into my life)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It‘s the design (workings) of Time (ie: fate)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This, my being, here. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maalayum manjalum maariyadhe oru sodhanai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manjam nenjam maaruvadhe oru vedhnai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Deiyvame yaaridam yaarai Nee thandhthayo? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Un koil deepam maaruvadhai Nee ariyayo? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[maalai refers to exchange of garlands at weddings, manjal is turmeric but refers to the ‘thali’ (a yellow thread with a traditional ornament) a woman wears at wedding that pronounces she is married]</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The way the garland and turmeric changed was (cause for great) sorrow,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The change in the bed and the heart was (cause for) lamentation</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh God, who did you give to whom? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Don’t you know that the lamps in your temple have changed?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">{Here the poet is using lamps in temple for people in a wedded life]</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aadiya naadagam mudiyavillai oru naalile</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Angum ingum shanthi illai silar vaazhvile </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Deiyvame, yaaridam maedail nee nindrayo?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Indru yaarai yaaraai nerinile nee kandayo?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The play (we took part in) didn’t end in a day </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here or there, there’s no peace in life for some (souls)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh God, whom did you stand next to on the stage (at the wedding?) </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now who are you seeing in place of whom? </span></p></div>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-85197581091903169072021-02-16T10:00:00.001+08:002021-02-16T10:00:03.312+08:00Buddhi ulla manidharellam<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Buddhi ulla manidhnellam vetri nkanbadhillai </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vetri petra manidharellam buddhisali illai </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Intelligent people don’t always become successful</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All those who succeed are not necessarily intelligent </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Panamirukkum manidharidam manam iruppadhillai </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manam irukkum manidharidam panam iruppadhillai </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Panamirukkum veetinela vandhadhellam sondham </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Panamilladha veetinile sondham ellam thunbam</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those with money, they don’t have the heart (to give) </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those with heart (that’s generous), they don’t have the money</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A rich man’s house is full of relatives </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a poor man’s house, every relative is (a cause for pain and ) sorrow</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kanavu kaanum manidhanuku </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kanbadhellam kanavu </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Avan kaanuginra kanavinile </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Varuvadhellam uravu </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Avan kanavil aval varuval avanai paarthu sirppal</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aval kanavil yaar varuvar yaarai paarthu azhaippar?</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a day-dreamer (fantasiser)</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Everything he sees is a dream (fantasy)</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the dream that he dreams</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is only relationships </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(uravu is relationships, also can be taken to mean sexual relationship)</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In his dream, she will come and smile at him</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In her dream, who’ll come, And beckon whom?</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-88391199917130067912021-02-16T09:49:00.002+08:002021-02-16T18:00:11.884+08:00 Yaarai nambi naan porandhaen<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaarai nambi naan pirandhen </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pongada ponga </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">En kaalam vellum </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vendra pinne </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaangada vaanga </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whom did I trust in when I was born? </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Get lost (all of you who turned your back on me)</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> My time will come when I’ll be victorious (successful) </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then you all will come to me </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kolathilae thanniyille</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kokkum ille meanum ille</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pettiyile panam ille</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Petha pull sondham ille</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s no water in the lake (kulam is actually a public tank)</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No birds no fish</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s no money in the box</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The son you begot son isn’t yours anymore </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thennaiya petha ila neeru </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pillaiye petha kanneeru</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pethavanan maname pithamma </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pillayin maname kallamma </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paanayile sorirundha poonaigalum sonndhamada</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vedhanaye pangu vacha Sondhamille bandhamille </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you plant coconut sapling, you get coconut water </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you beget (plant seed for children), you only get tears </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Parents’ heart is mad (crazy for kids) </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The children’s heart is (cold like) stone </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When there is food in the pot </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even cats are your relatives </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When you want to share your sorrow</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is no relative, not bonds.</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nenjamirukku thunivaaga </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neramirukkku therlivaga </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ninathal mudippen sariyaaga </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nee yaar naan yaar poda po </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aadiyile kaathadicha aipasiyil mazhai varum</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thedi varum kaalam vandha </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sondham ellam odi varum </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My heart is strong and brave,</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My time is clear,</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ll finish what I set out to do </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who are you and who am I? </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Get lost (Meaning we’ll see who wins in the end, sort of a challenge) </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If the wind blows in the month of Adi it will rain in Aipasi (Natural course of events like, if winter is there can spring be far behind type of sentiment)</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When (good luck) comes looking for me </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All the relatives will come to looking for me (Fair weather people) </span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-68262209314092542252021-02-16T09:42:00.003+08:002021-02-16T09:42:35.561+08:00Mayakkama kalakkama <p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Mayakkama Mayakkama kalakkama</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manadhile kuzhappama </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaazhkayil nadukkama?</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Are you) Confused? (Islife making you)Dizzy?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Is there) indecision in your mind? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(And) trembling in life? ( Meaning is there fear?) </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaazhkai endral aayiram irukkum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaasal thorum vedhanai irukkum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vandha thunbam edhuvendraalum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaadi nindral oduvadhillai</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Edhayum thaangum idhayam irundhal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Irudhi varaikkum amaidhi nilakkum </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are thousands of things in life (that’s life) </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At every door step there will be worries </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whatever problems that may come to you </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They won’t go away of you sit there wilting (in hoplessness) </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have a strong heart </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There will be peace till the end </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ezhai manadhai maaligai aaki </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Iravum pagalum kaaaviyam padi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Naalai pozhudhai iravanukku alithu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nadakkum vaazhvil amadhiyai thedu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unakkum keezhe ullavar kodi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ninaithu paarhu nimmadhi naadu </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Transform your poor heart </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Into a huge mansion </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sing epic songs every day </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leave tomorrow to God </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And seek peace in the present </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are millions of people below (worse off than) you </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Think about it and be at peace </span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-13848481432387523022021-02-16T09:36:00.005+08:002021-02-16T09:36:45.934+08:00 Ninaipadhellam Nadandhu Vittal<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Ninaipadhellam Nadandhu Vittal</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ninaippadhellam nadandhu vital </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Deiyvam edhumillai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nadandhadhaye ninaithirundhaal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Amaidhi engum illai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mudindha kadhai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thodarvadhillai Iraivan yaettinile </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thodarndha kadhai mudivadhillai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manidhan veetinile </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If all that you think comes true, there’s no God</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you keep worrying about what’s happened, there’s no peace </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A story that’s finished doesn’t continue in God’s books </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A story that continues doesn’t end in Man’s house. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aayiram vaaasal idhayam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhil aayiram ennangal udhayam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idhil yaaro varuvar yaaro iruppar </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Varuvadhum povadhum theriyadhu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oruvar mattum kudi irundhal</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">thunbam yedhumillai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ondrirukkak ondru vandhaal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">endrum amaidhi illai </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The thousand gated heart </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In it there are thousands of thoughts arise </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In it someone will come,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">someone will stay </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No one knows who comes and who leaves </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If only one stays, there is no sorrow</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If one comes in when someone is already there, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">then there is no peace</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Enge vaazhkai thodangum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhu enge evvidham mudiyum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idhu dhaan paadhai idhu dhaan payanam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Enbadhu yaarukkumtheiryadhu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paadhai ellam maarividum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Payanam mudindhu vidum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maaruvadhai purindhu kondal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mayakkam thelindhu vidum </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Where does life start?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Where does it end? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is this the path? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is this the journey? </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No one knows </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The paths will change</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the journey will end</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you understand the change</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the confusion will end (be clarified)</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-70976344697443360972021-02-16T09:32:00.002+08:002021-02-16T18:02:49.283+08:00ezhu swarangalukkul enthanai paadal<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Yezhu swarangalukkul – a fantastic song, apparently done in five minutes.</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yezhu swarangalukkul, ethanai paadal </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idhaya surangathul ethanai kelvi </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kaanum manidharukkul ethanai salanam </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verum karpanai sandoshathil</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">avanadhu gavanam </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How many songs in seven notes</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How many questions in the tunnel that’s one’s heart</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How many temptations in the people you see</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In empty imaginary pleasures lies his attention </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kaalai ezhundha vudan </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">naalaiya kelvi</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhu kayyil kidaitha pinbum</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thudikkudhu aavi</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaen endra klei ondru </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Endraikkum thangum</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manidhan inba thunbam edhilum</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kelvi than minjum</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The moment you wake up in the morning</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is the question of tomorrow</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When it (the answer) comes into your hand</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heart yearns for more</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Why’ is a question that will linger forever</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In every sorrow and happiness</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Question is all that will remain</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yenakkaga nee azhalam iyarkail nadakkum </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nee enakkaga unavu unna eppadi nadakkum</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Namakendru boomiyile kadamaigal undu </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhai namakkaga nam kayyal seivadhu nandru </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can cry on my behalf, it’s possible (in nature)</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How can you eat for me? </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We all have our duties to perform </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is best if we do</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">them ourselves with our hands</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aarambathil pirappum un kayil illai </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pinbu aduthaduthu nadakkum, un kayil illai </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paadhai vagutha pinbu bayanddhenna laabam</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhil payanam nadhi vidu, maraindhidum paavam </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the beginning, birth isn’t in your hands </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then one thing happens after another, that’s not in your hands either</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once you’ve decided on a path, what’s the point in getting scared?</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Walk that path and the sins will disappear</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Naalai pozhudhondru undu adhu namakkena vaazhgha </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adhai nadatha oruvanundu koilil kanga </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Velai pirakkum endru nambikkai kolga </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Endha</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">vedhanayum maarum megathai pole </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is tomorrow, live in the belief that it’s for us</span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s someone to guide it, find Him in the temple </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Believe that your time will come </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because every sorrow is like the shifting clouds</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-46675001937293749982021-02-16T09:27:00.003+08:002021-02-16T09:27:26.281+08:00 Vaazha ninaithaal vaazhalam<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Avenir;">Vaazha ninaithaal – (I like the first stanza of this song, so I’m skipping the second stanza)</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></span></div>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaazha ninaithaal vaazhalam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vazhiya illai boomiyil </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aazha kadalum solai aagum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aasai irundhal neendhi vaa </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you want to live, you can </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aren’t there ways on earth?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even oceans will be like a garden</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have the passion, swim and come.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paarka therindhal paadhai theiryum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paarthu nadandhal payanum thodarum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Payanam thodarndhaal kadhavu thirakkum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kadhavu thirandhal kaatchi kidaikkum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kaatchi kidaithaal kavalai theerum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kavalai theerndhal vaazhalam </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you know how to see, the path will become clear (to walk)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you walk carefully, the journey will continue </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If the journey continues, the door will open, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When the door opens, what you seek will be there, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When you find what you seek, worries will disappear </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When worries disappear, you can live.</span></p>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-83671488711785473492021-02-16T09:22:00.006+08:002021-02-16T09:22:57.984+08:00<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaarada manidhan ange </span></h2><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yaarada manidhan ange </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kootivaa avanai inge</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Iraivan padaippil kurangu thaan meedhi inge </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Where is (the real) Man </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bring him here</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All that remains in God’s creation</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is the monkey</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Manidharil naaygal undu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manadhinil narigal undu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paarvaiyil puligal undu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pazhakkathil paambu undu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nayum, nariyum puliyum paambum </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ulavum ulagathile </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maanam, panbuu, nyayam konda </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manidhanaikaanavillai </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In men, there are dogs, In hearts, there are foxes In eyes, there are tigers In</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">behaviour (relationships), there are snakes In a world of dogs, fox, tigers and</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">snakes. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In all these there is no man with (qualities such as) (sense of) honour, justice, culture.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sirippinil manidhanillai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Azhgayil manidhan illai </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ullathil mandihan illai</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Urakkathil mandihan undu </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Vaazhum mirugam thoongum dheivam</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Idaie manidhanada</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Engo avanum irundhal </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ulagam vanagumada </span></p><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In laughter, Man isn’t</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In tears, Man isn’t In</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">his heart, Man isn’t (surprise, you’d think otherwise here but that’s the twist)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In sleep, Man is. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Living beast sleeping Divinity,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> In between is Man </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If he is to be found to be anywhere </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The world will worship him. </span></p><div>
</div>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2059329379001750437.post-25466723939645127572007-03-31T19:19:00.000+08:002021-02-16T09:11:20.057+08:00Kannadasan's gems<h1 style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I grew up with the comforting, encouraging, optimistic, uplifting,</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">inspirational, empathetic, humourous (among other adjectives) lyrics of</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Kannadasan, the genius poet of the Tamil silver screen. Nothing was perfect for</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">a lift in the spirits like Mayakkama Kalakkama or Ninaipadhellam nadandhu vitaal</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">emanating from a teakadai radio, especially when you are coming back from a low</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">score in math. Or whatever was getting one down. Many a night at dinner, my</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">family members would sit around discussing the various aspects of his lyrics,</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">long after the dinner was despatched, (with hands almost drying, you didn’t want</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to get up to something as pedestrian as washing hands lest you should miss out</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">on something). Here I’m attempting to translate some his songs that affected me</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">deeply (and still do), because I think his songs should reach even those who</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">don’t understand Tamil. While I’m aware of the limitations of translation as an</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">exercise, and the fact that it seldom does justice to the original, I hope to do</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">the best I can in presenting some of my favourite songs and their meanings. To</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">my limited knowledge, no body combined simplicity and profundity with such ease</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and beauty. Kaviarasu, (meaning King of Poets), will always be that. Period. So</p>
<p style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">here goes. </p></h1>Guru Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123052338713635671noreply@blogger.com11