Entani Ne - Tyagaraja Kritis (Eng)

Pallavi

entani nē varṇintunu śabari bhāgyam(entani) entani nē varṇintunu śabari bhāgyamu-(entani)

How shall I describe the blessedness of Sabari?

Anupallavi

1dāntula vara kāntalu jagam- anta niṇḍiyuṇḍaga (entani) dāntula vara kāntalu jagamanta niṇḍiyuṇḍaga (entani)

While the blessed wives of ascetics abound throughout the Earth, how shall I describe the blessedness of Sabari?

Charanam

kanulāra sēviñci kammani phalamulanosagi tanuvu pulakariñca pāda yugamulaku mrokki ina kula pati samukhambuna punar-āvṛtti2 rahita pada- munu pondina tyāgarāja nuturāli puṇyambunu (entani) kanulāra sēviñci kammani phalamulanu-osagi tanuvu pulakariñca pāda-yugamulaku mrokki ina kula pati samukhambuna punar-āvṛtti rahita padamunu pondina tyāgarāja nuturāli puṇyambunu (entani)

How shall I describe the merit of Sabari – praised by this Thyagaraja who - having beheld the Lord to her heart’s (eyes’) content, having offered Him the sweetest fruits, having worshipped His Feet such that she had horripilation, attained the state of Liberation in the sacred presence of Sri Rama – the Chief of Solar Dynasty?

Commentary

• ¹dāntula vara kāntalu – The implication is that while Sri Rama went to homes many great ascetics – Atri-Anusuya, Sarabhanga, Suteekshna, Agastya - none had the fortune of attaining liberation, whereas Sabari – an illiterate - whose supreme devotion to her guru and her firm conviction that Sri Rama would come one day, enabled her to attain liberation.
• ²āvṛtti - The cycle of repeated births and deaths.