ಕನಕದಾಸರ ಕೀರ್ತನೆಗಳು
BA III Semester Optional English Topic
For English Literature Students
Kanaka Dasa ( ಕನಕದಾಸರು )
About the Poet :-
Kanaka Dasa (1509–1609) was a Haridasa saint and philosopher, popularly called Daasashreshta Kanakadasa (ದಾಸಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಕನಕದಾಸ). He was a renowned composer of Carnatic music, poet, reformer and musician. He is known for his keertanas and ugabhoga, and his compositions in the Kannada language for Carnatic music. Like other Haridasas, he used simple Kannada and native metrical forms for his compositions.
He was a great poet musician of Karnataka, in the tradition of Purandara Dasa. He belonged to the Kurube Gowda community, who were warriors. He later turned to the Haridasa tradition and became a poet who composed beautiful lyrics in Kannada. Kanaka Dasa’s original name was Thimmappa Nayaka. His parents were Biregowda and Beechamma, and he was born in the year 1509. He was a contemporary of Purandara Dasa, though a little bit younger.
He joined the Haridasa tradition and was renamed Kanaka Dasa by his spiritual master, Vyasaraja of Udupi. Kanaka Dasa composed beautiful literary works in Kannada. He was a poet-composer, a religious and social reformer, and a devotee of Lord Vishnu.
Kanaka Dasa was not just a social reformer and a great composer; he was mainly a devotee of Lord Narayana. He longed to visit the Udupi Krishna temple and have a Darshan of the Lord, but the narrow minded priests would not allow him inside the temple as they considered him to be of inferior birth. Kanaka Dasa was distraught and expressed his anguish to Sri Krishna. Immediately, the temple wall collapsed on one side, a slit appeared in the Sanctum, the idol of Sri Krishna turned towards him and he was able to have a direct Darshan.
The wall was later reconstructed, but a small window was built there to mark the place where the Lord gave Darshan to his anguished devotee. This window is called Kanakana Hindi – Kanaka’s Window. Even today, devotees have a Darshan of the lord through this window before proceeding to the main entrance of the sanctum.
ಕನಕದಾಸರ ಕೀರ್ತನೆಗಳು
Do not quarrel over caste
Do not quarrel over caste
People constantly talk about caste, caste, caste.
To which caste do those who experience true happiness belong?
The lotus is born from pond-bed mud and slush
but we offer it to God in worship;
milk is secreted from a cow’s udder
but the highest caste drinks it.
People constantly talk about caste…
Musk oozes from deers’ pores
but Brahmins smear it on their “pure” bodies.
To what caste does Lord Narayana belong, tell me?
To what caste does Lord Shiva belong?
People constantly talk about caste…
To what caste does the soul belong?
To what caste do life and love belong?
To what caste do the five senses belong?
If a soul is united with God, the Soul of Souls,
What does caste have to do with it?
People constantly talk about caste…
ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಅನುವಾದ
ಕುಲ ಕುಲವೆಂದು ಹೊಡೆದಾಡದಿರಿ
ಕುಲ ಕುಲವೆಂದು ಹೊಡೆದಾಡದಿರಿ
ಜನರು ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ಕುಲ , ಕುಲ , ಕುಲಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ನಿಜವಾದ ಸುಖವನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸುವವರು ಯಾವ ಕುಲಗೆ ಸೇರಿದವರು?
ಕಮಲವು ಕೊಳದ-ಹಾಸಿಗೆಯ ಕೆಸರು ಮತ್ತು ಕೆಸರುಗಳಿಂದ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದೆ
ಆದರೆ ನಾವು ಅದನ್ನು ದೇವರಿಗೆ ಪೂಜೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅರ್ಪಿಸುತ್ತೇವೆ;
ಹಸುವಿನ ಕೆಚ್ಚಲಿನಿಂದ ಹಾಲು ಸ್ರವಿಸುತ್ತದೆ
ಆದರೆ ಉನ್ನತ ಕುಲಯವರು ಅದನ್ನು ಕುಡಿಯುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ಜನರು ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ಕುಲ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ …
ಜಿಂಕೆಗಳ ನಾಸಿಯಿ೦ದ ಕಸ್ತೂರಿ ಒಸರುತ್ತದೆ
ಆದರೆ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣರು ಅದನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮ “ಶುದ್ಧ” ದೇಹದ ಮೇಲೆ ಲೇಪಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ನಾರಾಯಣನು ಯಾವ ಕುಲಗೆ ಸೇರಿದವನು, ಹೇಳಿ?
ಶಿವನು ಯಾವ ಕುಲಗೆ ಸೇರಿದವನು?
ಜನರು ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ಕುಲದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ …
ಆತ್ಮ ಯಾವ ಕುಲಕೇ ಸೇರಿದೆ?
ಜೀವನ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಯಾವ ಕುಲಕೇ ಸೇರಿದೆ?
ಪಂಚೇಂದ್ರಿಯಗಳು ಯಾವ ಕುಲಕೇ ಸೇರಿದವು?
ಆತ್ಮವು ದೇವರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಐಕ್ಯವಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ, ಆತ್ಮಗಳ ಆತ್ಮ,
ಕುಲಕ್ಕೂ ಅದಕ್ಕೂ ಏನು ಸಂಬಂಧ?
ಜನರು ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ಕುಲದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ …
