Alaipayudhe Kanna....

alaipAyudhE kaNNA en manam miga alaipAyudhE

aanandha moagana vaeNu gaanamadhil

My mind is all aflutter, Oh Krishna, listening to the joyous, enchanting music of your flute, My mind is all aflutter!

alaipaayudhae kaNNaa en manam alaipaayudhae
un aanandha moagana vaeNu gaanamadhil
alaipaayudhae kaNNaa aaaa

My mind is all aflutter, Oh Krishna, listening to the joyous, enchanting music of your flute, My mind is all aflutter!

nilai peyarAdhu oru silai pOlavE ninra
nEramAvAdhariyAamalE miga vinOdhamAna muraLIdharA en manam (alaipAyudhE)

Transfixed, I stood there like a statue, oblivious of even the passage of time, hey, mysterious flautist!

theLindha nilavu paTTappagal pOl theriyudhE - un
thikkainOkki en irupuruvam neriyudhE
kanindha un vENu gAnam kAtril varugudhE
kaNgaL sorugi oru vidhamAi varugudhE

In this clear moonlight (that makes a day of the night), I strain my eyebrows hard and look in your direction, the mellow tunes of your flute come floating in the breeze... my eyes feel drowsy and a new feeling sweeps my being

kadhiththa manaththil uruththi padhaththai
enakku theLitthu magizhththa vA

Come! Mould my tender heart, make it full and fill me with joy!

oru thanittha vanatthil aNaitthu
enakku unarchchi koduththu mughizhththa vA

Come! Take me to a lonely grove and fill me with the emotions of ecstatic union!

karaikadal alayinil kadhiravan oLiyena
inaiyiru kazhalena kaLiththavA

You are the one who danced and made merry on the sun-bathed waves of the ocean!

kadhari manamuruga nAn azhaikkavO ?
idhara mAdharudan nI kaLikkavO ?

Am I to go on pleading for you with melting heart, While you are enjoying yourself with other women?

idhu thagumO? idhu muraiyO? idhu dharumam thAnO?
kuzhaloodhidum pozhudu Adidum kuzhaigaL pOlavE
manadhu vEdhanai migavodu (alaipAyudhE)

Is it right? Is it proper? Is it what dharma is? My heart dances even like your eardrops do when you blissfully play the flute! (My sad heart is all aflutter)

Thanks to Srinidhi Gopal for translation...

DON'T stop thinking!!

Today, I attended a BG class at ITPL. Few things were really good to reflect upon. This is an attempt to blog down one such thing.

Few guys were given buckets and the task of making sure that there is absolutely no gas in it. Those guys tried different techniques to form the vacuum using various scientific methods but it was impossible for them to create pure vacuum. On the contrary, one guy filled it with water :-) . Task was successfully completed!!

Similarly, it is IMPOSSIBLE to stop thinking of something or the other. Instead of trying to train the mind to stop thinking, it is better to make our mind think of Krsna.

Philosophy and discovery.

I have a philosophy that I started believed ever since my childhood. I was not proud of it then. But when I read the same thing in the Scriptures now, I feel good about it.

My philosophy then : Reason for all reasons is Krsna.

When did I think like this: Why is a leaf green in color? Simple – because chlorophyll is green. Why is chlorophyll green? Because it accepts white color and reflects only green. Why? That’s its nature. Why? Cuz God made it that way.

I was concluding this in the class of 6 or 7.

Another example: Why is an ion charged? Because of unequal protrons and electrons in it. So what? So the number of electrons are either more (-ve) or lesss (+ve). Why is electron made of negative charge? (this is not proved yet and scientist has been doing research from long time, but as far as I know), its quark. Two types of quarks - one has 2/3rd negative energy and second type has 1/3rd negative charge. Why is that so? Simple: Because God made them that way :-)

[Ofcourse, I should not be proud of my knowledge, ‘cuz Krsna is the intelligence in man :-) ]

This very philosophy I saw in Brahma Samhita 5.1:

Eeshwara Paramah Krsna,
Sat-Chitthananda Vigraha,
Anadhir Aadhir Govinda,
Sarva Kaarana Kaaranam.

Hari Bol.