It had been a very hectic day, but on the way back from office, the discussion amongst our friends in the car went around Kannadasan...aspiring my love for his lyrics once again.... his lyrics, his life and his intellectual brilliance. I could not resist to stop writing about him again!!!
Kannadasan- No Nobel prize can be enough or No Award can glorify the magnificiant amount of literature he left to this world. Amazing. Today every lyricst and a tamil song will have words from this great poet and writer
In my search on him once again, I found an amazing link to his songs
http://www.tamilnation.org/literature/kannadasan/lyrics.htm
No wonder every word of it, is true. Everything is within. Within us, within our lives, within our values and within our system
I wonder why no one in Tamil Literature try to translate these lyrics to larger audience or may be I am not aware....but imagine at 6000 lyrics, 5000 poems, near about 232 books and loads of manuscripts still with the family...what an immense wealth of knowledge.
Let me try my first ever translation of this great piece from the great master:
mayakkamaa kalakkamaa
manadhilae kuzhappamaa
vaazhkkaiyil nadukkamaa
My English Version:
Are you in the the daze or maze
of inner confusion in the heart
Or of the turbulences in life??
vaazhkkai enraal aayiram irukkum
vaasal dhoarum vedhanai irukkum
vandha thunbam edhu vandhaalum
vaadi ninraal oaduvadhillai
vaadi ninraal oaduvadhillai
edhaiyum thaangum idhayam irundhaal
irudhi varaikkum amaidhi irukkum
English Version:
Thousand tales makes a life
Upto the streets lies the pain
What ever may be the distress upon
once you stagnate, that will live on
once you standstill, that will live on
strongness of heart to face whatsoever
will let the peace sustain till the end
--( how true, most of us dont expose our pains outside our homes, most of us dont leave the baggage, the heaviness of the past and pains to move forward...great lesson)
aezhai manadhai maaligaiyakki
iravum pagalum kaaviyam paadi
naalaip pozhudhai iraivanukkaliththu
nadakkum vaazhvil amaidhiyaith thaedu
nadakkum vaazhvil amaidhiyaith thaedu
unakkum keezhae ullavar koadi
ninaiththup paarththu nimmadhi naadu
English Version
Make the poor heart a loving palace store
writing day and night the poetic verses galore
Dedicate the happiness of the day to the God
Seek the peace in everyday life in the Lord
Seek the peace in everyday life in the Lord
Millions are worser than what you are
Remember that to regain the peace at par.....
Beautiful verses and far more insight into the life's realities... and those who know to learn from them will move on towards betterment, peace and glory to themselves and to others around them.
Kannadasan endra kadalai marubadiyum thondum neram................
