Enta muddo

Lyrics

Pallavi

enta muddO enta sogasO evari valla varNimpa tagunE enta muddO enta sogasO evari-valla varNimpa tagunE Show Details

How charming and how pretty! By whom is it possible to describe it?

Anupallavi

enta vAralaina kAni kAma1 cintAkrAntu-lainAru enta-vAralu-aina-kAni ((kAma "lust"))sup>1 cinta AkrAntulu ainAru Show Details

No matter how great people are, they became besieged by thoughts of lust!

Charanam

atta mIda kanulAsaku dAsulai2 satta bhagavata vEsulairi dutta pAla ruci3 teliyu sAmyamE dhurINuDau tyAgarAja nutuDu (enta) atta mIda-kanulu Asaku dAsulai2 satta bhagavata vEsulu-airi dutta pAla ruci teliyu sAmyamE dhurINuDau tyAgarAja nutuDu (enta) Show Details

Ever fearing their mother-in-laws, having become slaves to lust, (but) they put on the appearance of true devotees of the Lord; it is indeed like the pot knowing the taste of its contents – milk; how charming and how pretty is the Lord - praised by this Thyagaraja – who bears burden of the Universe! By whom is it possible to describe it?

Variations

• ¹kAma – kAnta

Commentary

• ²atta mIda kanulu – being slave to lust, and thence to the wife, one does not dare transgress orders of mother-in-law. Therefore, whatever they do, they watch whether it has the approval of their mothers-in-law.
• ³dutta pAla ruci – Container cannot know the taste of its contents. Tamil siddhar ‘siva vAkkiyar’ has stated same as under -

  • சுட்ட சட்டி சட்டுவம் கறிச்சுவை யறியுமோ? (பாடல் 497)

  • suTTa saTTi saTTuvam kaRiccuvaiyaRiyumO’ – will the clay pot and ladle know the taste of curry? [Siddhar Vakkiyam]
  • When read in conjunction with Anupallavi wordings – ‘minds besieged by lust’ (kAma cintAkrAntulu), this would mean that those whose minds are beseiged by lust – but pretend to be true devotees - cannot know the beauty of indwelling Lord. Similar sentiment is expressed in the kRti ‘rAma nIyeDa’ – rAga karaharapriya –

  • kAmini vESa dhAriki sAdhvI naDatalEmaina telusunA

  • “Can a person playing the role of a woman know anything about the conduct of a chaste woman?”
  • Sri Thyagaraja defines the true devotee in the Kriti 'bhakuni cAritramu' – rAga bEgaDa as follows –

  • Asakti lEka tA kOrucu jIvanmuktuDai Anandamunondu
    bhaktuni cAritramu vinavE

  • "Listen to the conduct of the devotee of Lord Sitarama who, devoid of all attachments, seeking (the Indwelling Lord) by himself, attains bliss by becoming Living Free."