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Vachana - Basavanna in English

ಅತ್ತಲಿತ್ತ ಹೋಗದಂತೆ ಹೆಳವನ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯ ತಂದೆ,

ಸುತ್ತಿ ಸುಳಿದು ನೋಡದಂತೆ ಅಂಧಕನ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯ ತಂದೆ.

ಮತ್ತೊಂದ ಕೇಳದಂತೆ ಕಿವುಡನ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯ ತಂದೆ.

ನಿಮ್ಮ ಶರಣರ ಪಾದವಲ್ಲದೆ ಅನ್ಯವಿಷಯಕ್ಕೆಳಸದಂತೆ ಇರಿಸು ಕೂಡಲಸಂಗಮದೇವ.

Requesting to keep the mind focused on the you Lord

Make my mind immobilize that it does not keep diverting from you Lord.

Make my mind a blind so that it does not travel to watch out other than you Lord

Make my  mind dumb so that it should not listen something else 

other than you're preaching, my mind should not attract anything else keep me focused on you Kudala Sangama 




ಉಳ್ಳವರು ಶಿವಾಲಯವ ಮಾಡುವರು

ನಾನೇನು ಮಾಡಲಿ ಬಡವನಯ್ಯ?

ಎನ್ನ ಕಾಲೇ ಕಂಬ ದೇಹವೆ ದೇಗುಲ

ಶಿರವೇ ಹೊನ್ನ ಕಳಸವಯ್ಯ!

ಕೂಡಲಸಂಗಮ ದೇವ ಕೇಳಯ್ಯ

ಸ್ಥಾವರಕ್ಕಳಿವುಂಟು ಜಂಗಮಕ್ಕಳಿವಿಲ್ಲ!

Rich people build temples for Shiva

What can I, a poor man, do?

My legs are like a pillars

My body is like a temple

My head makes the golden cupola

Oh, Lord of Kudala sangama

The stand still will perish/ die

But, The moving will stay on.




ಕಳಬೇಡ, ಕೊಲಬೇಡ, ಹುಸಿಯ ನುಡಿಯಲು ಬೇಡ,

ಮುನಿಯಬೇಡ, ಅನ್ಯರಿಗೆ ಅಸಹ್ಯಬಡಬೇಡ,

ತನ್ನ ಬಣ್ಣಿಸಬೇಡ, ಇದಿರ ಹಳಿಯಲು ಬೇಡ.

ಇದೇ ಅಂತರಂಗಶುದ್ಧಿ, ಇದೇ ಬಹಿರಂಗಶುದ್ಧಿ

ಇದೇ ನಮ್ಮ ಕೂಡಲಸಂಗಮದೇವರನೊಲಿಸುವ ಪರಿ.

Do not steal, do not kill,

do not lie, do not loose temper,

do not hate the other,

do not boast of yourself,

do not criticise the opponent.

This itself is inner purify

this itself is outer purify

This alone is the way to win

our Koodalasangamadeva.



ಇವನಾರವ ಇವನಾರವ ಇವನಾರವನೆಂದು ಎನಿಸದಿರಯ್ಯ.

ಇವ ನಮ್ಮವ ಇವ ನಮ್ಮವ, ಇವ ನಮ್ಮವನೆಂದು ಎನಿಸಯ್ಯ.

ಕೂಡಲ ಸಂಗಮದೇವಾ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಯ ಮಗನೆಂದು ಎನಿಸಯ್ಯ.

Don’t make (me) think, “Whose is this man ? Whose is this man ? Whose is this man ?”

Make (me) think, “This is our man. This is our man. This is our man.”

Oh the Deity of kUDala saMgama, make (me) think that “I am a son of Your house.”


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