tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68213278961140776022024-03-17T20:03:37.458-07:00MANKUTHIMMANA KAGGASreeram Manoj Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995333646873213556noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821327896114077602.post-82333466556115404752010-04-20T07:54:00.000-07:002015-06-14T16:53:12.319-07:00Mankuthimmana Kagga (The ramblings of Timma)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಜ್ಞಾತವಾದುದನಭಾವವೆನೆ ನಾಸ್ತಿಕನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಜ್ಞೇಯವೆಂದದಕೆ ಕೈಮುಗಿಯೆ ಭಕ್ತ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಿಜ್ಞಾಸ್ಯವೆಂದು ಪರಿಕಿಸತೊಡಗೆ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸ್ವಜ್ಞಪ್ತಿಶೋಧಿ ಮುನಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Unknown is considered absent to an atheist.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Devotee revere It as Unknowable.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Scientist probes It as something to be known.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But the Sage contemplates on what he already knows. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೇಕು ಬೇಕದು ಬೇಕು ಬೇಕಿದೆನಗಿನ್ನೊಂದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೇಕೆನುತ ಬೊಬ್ಬಿಡುತಲಿಹ ಘಟವನಿದನು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಏಕೆಂದು ರಚಿಸಿದನೊ ಬೊಮ್ಮನೀ ಬೇಕು ಜಪ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಾಕೆನಿಪುದೆಂದಿಗೆಲೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Want, want, want of this, want of that.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why did He create this drum of a body</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That screams "WANT" all the time?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When will it say "I am enough"? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅನ್ನದಾತುರಕಿಂತ ಚಿನ್ನದಾತುರ ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಚಿನ್ನದಾತುರಕಿಂತ ಹೆಣ್ಣುಗಂಡೊಲವು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮನ್ನಣೆಯ ದಾಹವೀಯೆಲ್ಲಕಂ ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣತಮ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಿನ್ನುವುದದಾತ್ಮವನೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is in Man craving for food, but more so for wealth.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is in Man craving for wealth, but more so for carnal pleasure.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What surpasses even that, however, is craving for reputation:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That devours his soul! --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸರಿಯಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲವದು ಸರಿಯಿದಲ್ಲವೆನುತ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹರಡಿಕೊಳಬೇಡ ಮುಳ್ಳನು ಹಾಸಿಗೆಯಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕೊರೆಯಾದೊಡೇನೊಂದು ನೆರೆದೊಡೇನಿನ್ನೊಂದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒರಟು ಕೆಲಸವೊ ಬದುಕು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"This is not right, that is not correct":</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Saying thus, spread not thorns on your bed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So what if something is not perfect?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Life is but a rough job. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಚೆನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಚೆನ್ನೆಲ್ಲೊ ಚೆನ್ನೆನುತೆಣಿಸಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹುಲ್ಲುಬಯಲೊಂದೆಡೆಯಿನೊಂದಕ್ಕೆ ನೆಗೆದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೆಲ್ಲದೆಯೆ ಧಾವಿಸುತ ದಣಿವ ಕರುವನು ಪೋಲ್ತೊ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಡೆಲ್ಲಿಯೊ ಸುಖ ನಿನಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like a calf that runs helter-skelter</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">From one green field to another,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Without browsing anywhere; if you are,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Whither contentment for you? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಟ್ಟಿ ಕಾಳಗದಿ ಗೆಲ್ಲದೊಡೆ ಗರಡಿಯ ಸಾಮು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪಟ್ಟುವರಸೆಗಳೆಲ್ಲ ವಿಫಲವೆನ್ನುವೆಯೇಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮುಟ್ಟಿನೋಡವನ ಮೈಕಟ್ಟು ಕಬ್ಬಿಣ ಗಟ್ಟಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಟ್ಟಿತನ ಗರಡಿ ಫಲ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If a wrestler loses in a fight, would you call</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">His exercises in the gym fruitless?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Touch him; his muscles are strong as iron.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Strength is the fruit of his labour. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕತ್ತಲೆಯೊಳೇನನೊ ಕಂಡು ಬೆದರಿದ ನಾಯಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಎತ್ತಲೋ ಸಖನೋರ್ವನಿಹನೆಂದು ನಂಬಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕತ್ತೆತ್ತಿ ಮೋಳಿಡುತ ಬೊಗಳಿ ಹಾರಾಡುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭಕ್ತಿಯಂತೆಯೆ ನಮದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Having seen something in darkness, and being afraid,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And believing that there is a friend somewhere,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The dog howls, barks, and runs about restlessly.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Likewise is our piety. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತರಚುಗಾಯವ ಕೆರೆದು ಹುಣ್ಣನಾಗಿಪುದು ಕಪಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕೊರತೆಯೊಂದನು ನೀನು ನೆನೆನೆನೆದು ಕೆರಳಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧರೆಯೆಲ್ಲವನು ಶಪಿಸಿ ಮನದಿ ನರಕವ ನಿಲಿಸಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನರಳುವುದು ಬದುಕೇನೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A monkey scratches a graze and turns it into a wound.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Worrying yourself to no end over an imperfection,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cursing everything and making your mind a hell:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is this misery a life too? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇರುವ ಕೆಲಸವ ಮಾಡು ಕಿರಿದೆನದೆ ಮನವಿಟ್ಟು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದೊರೆತುದ ಹಸಾದವೆಂದುಣ್ಣು ಗೊಣಗಿಡದೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧರಿಸು ಲೋಕದ ಭರವ ಪರಮಾರ್ಥವನು ಬಿಡದೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊರಡು ಕರೆ ಬರಲಳದೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Work with all your mind, without belittling what you do.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eat whatever you get as god's gift, without complaint.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Wear on the garb of a mortal, without leaving the spiritual.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When the call comes, pass on without tears. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಿವಸದಿಂ ದಿವಸಕ್ಕೆ ನಿಮಿಷದಿಂ ನಿಮಿಷಕ್ಕೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭವಿಷಿಯವ ಚಿಂತಿಸದೆ ಬದುಕ ನೂಕುತಿರು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವಿವರಗಳ ಜೋಡಿಸುವ ಯಜಮಾನ ಬೇರಿಹನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸವೆಸು ನೀಂ ಜನುಮವನು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day to day, moment to moment,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Live on, without worrying about the future.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is a Master to fit in the detail;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You only need to endure. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹುಳು ಹುಟ್ಟಿ ಸಾಯುತಿರೆ ನೆಲ ಸವೆದು ಕರಗುತಿರೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಡಲೊಳೆತ್ತಲೋ ಹೊಸ ದ್ವೀಪವೇಳುವುದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಳೆಯುತೊಂದಿರಲಿಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆವುದಿನ್ನೊಂದೆಲ್ಲೊ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಳಿವಿಲ್ಲ ವಿಶ್ವಕ್ಕೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even as a worm lives and dies, and land erodes away,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Somewhere deep in the ocean, a new island emerges.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Something wanes here, something grows elsewhere.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is no end to this universe. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಗನನೀಲಿಮೆಯೆನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಗೆ ಸೊಗವೀವಂತೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮುಗಿವ ತರಣಿಯ ರಕ್ತ ಹಿತವೆನಿಸದೇಕೊ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸೊಗದ ಮೂಲವದೆಲ್ಲಿ ನೀಲದೊಳೊ ಕೆಂಪಿನೊಳೊ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಗೆವೆನ್ನ ಮನಸಿನೊಳೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am delighted with the azure blue of the sky,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But its evening red does not please me much.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is the cause of my sensation in blue? Or red?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Or is it in my mind that felt it? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮನೆಯ ತೊರೆದೋಡಲೇಂ ವನಗುಹೆಯ ಸಾರಲೇಂ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತನುವನುಗ್ರವ್ರತಗಳಿಂದ ದಂಡಿಸಲೇಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಿನದಗಳನರಸಿ ನೀನೂರೂರೊಳಲೆದೊಡೇಂ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮನವ ತೊರೆದಿರಲಹುದೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So what if you leave your home, and go to a forest cave?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What if you punish your body with severe penance?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What if you roam from place to place seeking diversion?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can you withdraw from your mind? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಉದರದೈವಕೆ ಜಗದೊಳೆದುರು ದೈವವದೆಲ್ಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೊದಲದರ ಪೂಜೆ ಮಿಕ್ಕೆಲ್ಲವದರಿಂದ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮದಿಸುವುದದಾದರಿಸೆ ಕುದಿವುದು ನಿರಾಕರಿಸೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹದದೊಳಿರಿಸುವುದೆಂತೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What God in this world is greater than the Stomach God?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It has to get the first worship; others come afterwards.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you respect it, it takes over you. If you ignore it, it seethes with rage.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">How to keep it at bay? I know not. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಂದೆ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಹದಗೆಟ್ಟುದನು ಕಾಣೆಯಾ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಂದಿರವರವರಹಂತೆಯು ಮೊಳೆಯುವನಕ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಂದೆಯಾರ್ ಮಕ್ಕಳಾರ್ ನಾನೆಂಬುದೆದ್ದುನಿಲೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಂಧ ಮುರಿವುದು ಬಳಿಕ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Have you seen rift between parents and children?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">They live in harmony until self-importance takes over.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What of father and what of son, when ego reigns?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then, the relationship is blighted. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಎಡವದೆಯೆ ಮೈಗಾಯವಡೆಯದೆಯೆ ಮಗುವಾರು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಡೆಯ ಕಲಿತವನು ಮತಿನೀತಿಗತಿಯಂತು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಡವರಿಸಿ ಮುಗ್ಗರಿಸಿ ಬಿದ್ದು ಮತ್ತೆದ್ದು ಮೈ- ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಡವಿಕೊಳುವವರೆಲ್ಲ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Which child learnt to walk without falling down?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is how the mind learns wisdom too.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To slip, to fall, and to shake oneself and get up:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Isn't this what everyone does? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಾನೊಳಿರುವುದೆ ಪಕ್ಷಿ ಪಾರ್ವ ದಾರಿಯ ನಕ್ಷೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೀನು ನೀರೊಳು ನುಸುಳೆ ಪಥನಿಯಮವಹುದೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಏನೊ ಜೀವವನೆಳೆವುದೇನೊ ನೂಕುವುದದನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನೀನೊಂದು ಗಾಳಿಪಟ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Does the sky have a map for the migrating bird?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do rules exist for a fish that swims about in water?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Something tugs at life, and pushes it forward:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are but a flying kite. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದ್ವೈತವೇನದ್ವೈತವೇನಾತ್ಮದರ್ಶನಿಗೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶ್ರೌತಾದಿವಿಧಿಯೇನು ತಪನಿಯಮವೇನು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನೀತಿ ಸರ್ವಾತ್ಮಮತಿಯನದರಿನಮಿತ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭೀತಿಯಿಲ್ಲದನವನು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is dualism and non-dualism for the enlightened?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why rituals, why rules, why meditation?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He is one with all souls, and full of love in his heart.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fear is unknown to him. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹರಡುವುದು ಸಾಜ ವಾಯುಗೆ ಸೈಸದದು ತಡೆಯನ್ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಉರುಳಿಪುದದೆಲ್ಲವನು ತಡೆಗಳಿಲ್ಲದಿರೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನರನ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರಗತಿಯಂತು ಹಿತಮಿತವಿರಲು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅರಸೊ ಮಿತಿಯಾಯತಿಯ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is natural for wind to blow, it does not tolerate blockage.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But when there is nothing to stop it, it destroys everything.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Such is the nature of individual freedom. It is good if it is</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In moderation. Try to limit your independence. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸುರಪಸಭೆಯಲಿ ಗಾಧಿಸುತ ವಸಿಷ್ಠ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧರೆಯೊಳದರಿಂ ಹರಿಶ್ಚಂದ್ರಂಗೆ ತಪನೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬರುವುದಿಂತೆತ್ತಣಿನೊ ಬೇಡದ ಪ್ರಾರಬ್ಧ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕರುಮಗತಿ ಕೃತ್ರಿಮವೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A contest in Indra's celestial court between Viswamitra and Vasishta,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Led to a lot of misery to Harischandra on Earth. [1]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unwanted distress can come suddenly from somewhere:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The way of Karma is devious indeed. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] One day, Indra, King of the heavens, asked in his court whether there were any truthful men left on Earth. Sage Vasishta named King Harischandra; sage Vishwamitra disagreed and wanted to prove Vasishta wrong. So he put the earthly king to a lot of agony in order to test him. The virtuous king remained steadfast and truthful, however, and everybody praised him in the end.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪುಣ್ಯದಿಂ ಬಂದ ಸಿರಿ ಮದಮೋಹಗಳ ಮೂಲ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಖಿನ್ನನಾಗಿಪ ಪಾಪಫಲವಾತ್ಮಶುದ್ಧಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅನ್ಯೋನ್ಯಜನಕಗಳು ಪುಣ್ಯಪಾಪಗಳಿಂತು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧನ್ಯನುಭಯವ ಮೀರೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Wealth that comes out of one's virtues leads to attachment and vanity.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But sorrow that arises out of one's sins cleanses one's soul.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thus virtue and sin give birth to each other;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blessed is he who rises above them both. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಿರಿಯ ಮೇಲಕೆ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಬಂಡೆಯನು ಸಿಸಿಫಸನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಉರುಳಿಸಿರಲೊಂದೆರಡು ಮಾರು ಘಾಸಿಯಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸರಿದು ಕೆಳಕದದೆಂತೊ ಜಾರುವುದು ಮರಮರಳಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪುರುಷಪ್ರಗತಿಯಂತು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sisyphus pushes a boulder to the top of hill,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">With a lot of effort and injuring himself in doing so.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But somehow it slips and falls down every time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Likewise is our progress. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಿಡಿಚೇಪೆಕಾಯಿಗಳ ತಡಬಡದೆ ನುಂಗುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಡಿಯೆ ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಯಲಿ ಹರಳೆಣ್ಣೆ ಕುಡಿಯುವುದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಿಡುತಿರಲು ನೋವಾಗ ಸುಖವೀಗಳೆನ್ನುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪೊಡವಿಗಿದೆ ಭೋಗವಿಧಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To feast on raw mangoes, and then,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When the stomach is upset, to drink oil [1];</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">As pain subsides, to delight in the relief:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is the way of indulgence. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] Castor oil is used as a purgative</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಯುಕ್ತಿಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯದಲಿ ಭಕ್ತಿ ಬಡ ಪರದೇಶಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶಕ್ತಿ ಚತುರತೆಯುಡುಗಿ ನೀನು ಸೋತಂದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಉತ್ಕ್ರಮಣದರೆಮನದಿ ದೈವವನು ಪಿಡಿದೇನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭಕ್ತಿ ರಕ್ತದಿ ಪರಿಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the kingdom of intellect, devotion is a poor refugee.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One day when your brains and energy wane, and you weaken,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lying on the death bed, half-awake, what use is calling on God?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let piety flow in your blood. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಗನ ಬಿಸಿಗವಸಾಗಿ ಕೆರೆಗಳಾವಿಗೆಯಾಗಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಗದುಸಿರೆ ಹೊಗೆಯಾಗಿ ಧಗಧಗಿಸುವಂದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಗೆದೆತ್ತಣಿನೊ ರಾತ್ರಿಯಲಿ ಧರೆಗೆ ತಂಪೆರೆವ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮುಗಿಲವೊಳು ದೈವಕೃಪೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When sky is a hot blanket, when parched soil seems like potter's kiln,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When blowing wind feels like billowing smoke, when all is ablaze in heat and drought:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One night from somewhere clouds arrive and rain the earth.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Such is the nature of divine grace. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪಿರಿದೆಲ್ಲ ಮತನೀತಿಗಳಿಗಿಂತ ಜೀವಿತವು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನೆರೆಬಂದ ನದಿ ದಡಕೆ ಬಾಗಿ ಪರಿಯುವುದೇಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧರುಮಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮದ ತಿಳಿವೆ ಲೋಕಸೂತ್ರದ ಸುಳಿವು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅರಸು ಜೀವಿತ ಹಿತವ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Life is greater than all religions and truths.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can a river in spate respect its banks?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The essence of religion is generic principles;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You [alone have to] seek what is good for you. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿನ್ನ ಕಣ್ ಕಿವಿ ಮನಗಳರಿವಷ್ಟು ನಿನ್ನ ಜಗ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿನ್ನನಳಿಸುವ ನಗಿಸುವೆಲ್ಲ ನಿನ್ನಂಶ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಉನ್ನತಿಗೆ ನೀನೇರಿದಂತೆ ಜಗ ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಣ್ಣತನ ಸವೆಯುವುದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your world is what your eyes, ears and mind perceive.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What makes you sad or happy is part of your own self.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">As you rise higher and higher, the world broadens,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And small-mindedness goes away. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪ್ರಾಕ್ತನದ ವಾಸನೆಯೆ ಮನಕೆ ಮೊದಲಿನ ಮಂತ್ರಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಯುಕ್ತಿಗಳ ತನಗೊಪ್ಪುವಂತೆ ತಿರುಗಿಪುದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸೂಕ್ತವೆನಿಪುದು ಸಹಜರುಚಿ ತನ್ನ ತರ್ಕವನೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗುಪ್ತದೊಳು ಕುಟಿಲವಿದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One's past [1] is the mind's first counsel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It twists the truths as it sees fit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One's nature always argues that it is correct. [2]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a tricky secret. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] This can be interpreted in three ways: a) One's actions in past lives (Doctrine of Karma), b) One's past experiences in this life, c) One's primordial instincts that come from beastly ancestors</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದೇವರದಿದೆಲ್ಲ ದೇವರಿಗೆಲ್ಲವೆಂದೊರಲು- ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಾವುದನುಮವನ ನಿರ್ಣಯಕೆ ಬಿಡದೆಯೆ ತಾಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಾವನ್ತಪಡುತ ತನ್ನಿಚ್ಛೆಯನೆ ಘೋಷಿಸುವ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭಾವವೆಂತಹ ಭಕುತಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"All this is God's, all this is for Him":</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even while saying so, not leaving anything to His judgement,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But agitating oneself and trumpeting one's own wishes --</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What sort of devotion is this? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಎಲ್ಲಕಂ ನಿನಗಿಲ್ಲ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯದಧಿಕಾರ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಲ್ಲದೆಯುಮಿಲ್ಲ ನಿನಗಾ ಹೊರೆಯ ಪಾಲು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಾದಿನಿತ ಮಿಕ್ಕುದು ಪಾಲಿಗನ ಪಾಡು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಲ್ಲನವನರೆನಚ್ಚ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You do not have authority to do everything.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But then, it's not that you have no burden of work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do what you can, leave the rest to Him.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He does not like sloppiness [in what you do]. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹತ್ಯೆಯೋ ಹನ್ಯತೆಯೊ ವಿಜಯವೋ ಪರಿಭವವೊ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕ್ಷತ್ರಿಯಂ ಸ್ವಾರ್ಥಮಂ ಗಣಿಸುವನೆ ರಣದೊಳ್ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕೃತ್ಯನಿರ್ಣಯ ಬಾಹ್ಯಲಾಭನಷ್ಟದಿನಲ್ಲ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆತ್ಮಋಣವದು ಜಗಕೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To kill or to be killed; victory or defeat:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The warrior does not think selfishly in battlefield.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What you do is not because of a rational sense of profit or loss;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is what your soul owes to the world. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸುತ್ತಿ ಸುತ್ತುವ ಖಗವ ಗೂಡ ನೆನಪೆಳೆಯುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗೊತ್ತುನೂಲ್ ಪಿಡಿದಿಹುದು ದನವ ಬಯಲಿನಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತತ್ತ್ವವೊಂದರ ಹಿಡಿತಕೊಗ್ಗದಿಹ ಬಾಳೇನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಿತ್ತ ಗಾಳಿಯ ಪಟವೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even to a vagrant bird, the memory of nest pulls back.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A rope on the neck holds back the cow in the field.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is life if not bound by any value?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is like a torn kite. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೇಕು ಜೀವನಯೋಗಕೊಂದು ಬಹುಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೇಕೊಂದು ಜಾಗರೂಕತೆ ಬುದ್ಧಿಸಮತೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಾಕನೊಂದನು ಯೋಗಿ ನೂಕನೊಂದನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಏಕಾಕಿ ಸಹವಾಸಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The yoga of life needs a certain grasp of intricacies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It needs carefulness; needs levelheadedness.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The yogi does not connect with anything, nor reject it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He lives essentially alone. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕ್ಷಮೆ ದೋಷಿಗಳಲಿ ಕೆಚ್ಚೆದೆ ವಿಧಿಯ ಬಿರುಬಿನಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಮತೆ ನಿರ್ಮತ್ಸರತೆ ಸೋಲ್ಗೆಲುವುಗಳಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶಮವ ನೀಂ ಗಳಿಸಲೀ ನಾಲ್ಕು ತಪಗಳೆ ಸಾಕು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭ್ರಮೆಯೊ ಮಿಕ್ಕೆಲ್ಲ ತಪ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mercy on the guilty, resilience amidst vagaries of Fate,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Equanimity in victory and loss, and lack of jealousy:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To gain shama [1], these four practices are enough.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Others are just fancies. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] Skt., loosely, tranquillity. Shama is the first of 6 types of wealth: shama, dama (control of the senses), uparati (desisting sensual enjoyment and following dharma), titiksha (endurance), shraddha (faith), and samadhana (concentration, focus).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಾರೆಗಚ್ಚೇನಲ್ಲ ದಾರು ದೂಲಗಳಲ್ಲ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪಾರದ ದ್ರವದವೊಲು ಮನುಜಸ್ವಭಾವ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವೀರಶಪಥಗಳಿಂದೆ ಘನರೂಪಿಯಾಗದದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸೈರಿಸದನಿನಿತು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is not set in concrete, nor is it like a wooden column.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the other hand, human behaviour is very mercurial.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just by brave vows it does not turn into a rigid solid;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tolerate it a little. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಲೆಪಾಗಿನೊಳಕೊಳಕ ಪಂಚೆನಿರಯೊಳಹರಕ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಿಳಿಸುವೆಯ ರಜಕಗಲ್ಲದೆ ಲೋಗರಿಂಗೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಳಲುದುಗುಡಗಳ ನಿನ್ನೊಳಗೆ ಬಯ್ತಿಡದೆ ನೀ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿಳೆಗೆ ಹರಡುವುದೇಕೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The dirt in your turban, the tear in your clothes:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You show these only to the washerman, not everyone.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Likewise, keep your sorrows and worries within yourself,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why spread them to the world? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಲಿಸುವೊಲಿಸುವ ಕೆಣಕಿ ಕಾಡಿಸುವ ಮುಳಿಯಿಸುವ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಳೆ ನಂಟು ಹಗೆ ಕಲಹ ಕುಹಕದೋಲೆಗಳಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹಲಬರಿಗೆ ಹಂಚಿ ಬಾರೆಂದು ವಿಧಿ ನೇಮಿಸಿಹ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಳೆಯಂಚೆಯಾಳು ನೀಂ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A happy mail for one while a hurting post to another,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Letters of friendship, jealousy, hatred and mockery:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">All these are given to you to be delivered by Fate.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are just a postman. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅನ್ನವುಣುವಂದು ಕೇಳ್ ಅದನು ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ ನೀರ್ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿನ್ನ ದುಡಿತದ ಬೆಮರೊ ಪೆರರ ಕಣ್ಣೀರೋ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಿನ್ನು ನೀಂ ಜಗಕೆ ತಿನಲಿತ್ತನಿತ ಮಿಕ್ಕೂಟ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜೀರ್ಣಿಸದ ಋಣಶೇಷ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When you eat your daily rice, ask yourself on what cooked it:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Was it your own sweat, or was it someone else's tears?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eat only as much as you gave the world to eat. The rest</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is undigestible leftover from your previous lives. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಮ್ಮನಸಿನಿಂದ ನೀನೀ ತತ್ತ್ವವಂ ಗ್ರಹಿಸು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಲೀಲೆಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತುಗುರಿ ಲೆಕ್ಕವಿಲ್ಲ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸುಮ್ಮನಿರು ನಿನ್ನ ಪಾಡನು ಪಡುತ ತುಟಿ ಬಿಗಿದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಗೆ ದಾರಿಯಿದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Concentrate and understand this truth:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is no purpose or meaning in God's play.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Keep mum and endure your life as it comes;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is the way to peace. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಳಲಿ ನೆಲದಲಿ ಮಲಗಿ ಮೈಮರೆತು ನಿದ್ರಿಪನ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕುಲುಕಿ ಹಾಸಿಗೆಯನರಸೆನುವುದುಪಕೃತಿಯೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಳಿತನೆಸಗುವೆನೆಂದು ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಯ ನುಂಗದಿರು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸುಲಭವಲ್ಲೊಳಿತೆಸಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is it help if you shake up someone asleep on the ground,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tired and weary, and ask him to find a bed for himself?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In trying to be benevolent, do not ruin existent harmony.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is not easy to do something good. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಲುಹಳೆಯ ಲೋಕವಿದು ಬಲುಪುರಾತನ ಲೋಕ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೆಳೆದಿರ್ಪುದಿದು ಕೋಟಿ ರಸಗಳನು ಪೀರ್ದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸುಲಭವಲ್ಲದರ ಸ್ವಭಾವವನು ಮಾರ್ಪಡಿಸೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಲದಾತುರತೆಯದಕೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a very old world, an ancient world;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It has grown absorbing myriad tastes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not easy is it to change its character.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It detests haste. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಡೆಯದಿರು ತಳಹದಿಯ ಸರಿವಡಿಪೆನದನೆಂದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಡಿಲಿಸುವ ನೀಂ ಮರಳಿ ಕಟ್ಟಲರಿತವನೇಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಿಡವ ಸರಿ ಬೆಳೆಯಿಸಲು ಬುಡವ ಕೀಳ್ವುದು ಸರಿಯೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದುಡುಕದಿರು ತಿದ್ದಿಕೆಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do not destroy the foundation in trying to set something right.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although eager to loosen up, do you know how to build it back?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is it right to pull apart its stem to make a plant grow correctly?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do not be hasty in correcting. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಾನಪದ ಶಿಷ್ಟಿಯಲಿ ಸಂಪತ್ಸಮಷ್ಟಿಯಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಧಾನದಲಿ ಮೌಲ್ಯ ಗಣನೆಯಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಾನವತೆ ಮಾನುಷ್ಯ ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕತೆಯೆದ್ದುನಿಲೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆನಂದ ಧರೆಗಂದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Discipline among people; equal sharing of wealth;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Knowledge for peace; value-based calculations;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Humanity and cooperation --if all these flourish,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The world will be full of happiness. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭಾನೂದಯಾಸ್ತಗಳಿನಲ್ತೆ ದಿಕ್ಕಾಲಗಳ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಾನಗಣಿತವು ನಮಗೆ ಭಾನುವಿರದೊಡದೇಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆನಂತ್ಯ ಶುದ್ಧಸತ್ತಾ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬೊಮ್ಮನದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಲೀನನಾಗದರೊಳಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Isn't the rise and setting of Sun our metric</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Of time and direction? What if there is no Sun?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The eternal, pure essence [beyond suns] is Brahman.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Be one with that. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶುಭವಾವುದಶುಭವಾವುದು ಲೋಕದಲಿ ನೋಡೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವಿಭಜಿಸಲ್ಕಾಗದನ್ಯೋನ್ಯ ಸಂಬಂಧ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಉಭಯವನು ಮೀರ್ದ ಸಾಮ್ಯದ ನೀತಿಯೊಂದಿಹುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಭಯಪಥವದು ನಿನಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you try to divide the world into good and bad,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You will uncover a tight bond that unites them both.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is a principle of harmony that is beyond them,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That is the path for living. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹಿಂದಣದರುಳಿವಿರದು ಮುಂದಣದರುಸಿರಿರದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಂದರೆಕ್ಷಣ ತುಂಬಿ ತೋರುವುದನಂತ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಂದೆ ಕಣ್ಣೊಂದೆ ಗುರಿಯೊಂದೆ ಮೈಮನಮರೆತ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸುಂದರದ ಲೋಕವದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Past ceases to exist, and there is no trace of the future;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In one moment, one sees all of eternity.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One sight, one destiny; body and mind become one too.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is a beautiful world in itself. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೀಳಿಸದಿರೊ ನಿನ್ನ ನೆರಳನಿತರರ ಮೇಲೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಾಳಿಕೊಳುವವರು ತಂತಮ್ಮ ಬೆಳಕಿನಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೇಲುಬೀಳುಗಳಾರ್ಗದೆಂತೊ ನೀನೇನರಿವೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಾಳದಿರು ಗುರುತನವ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cast not your shadow upon others;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let them live under their own lights.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What do you know about their life's turns?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Try not to be a guru. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪರಹಿತದ ಮಾತಿರಲಿ ಪರರಿನೇ ಜೀವಿಪನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನರಜಂತು ಪಶುಪಕ್ಷಿಕೀಟಮೀನ್ಗಳವೋಲ್ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪರರಿನೆಳಸದದೇನುನುಂಪರರಿಗುಪಕರಿಪ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತರುಜನ್ಮವಲ ಪುಣ್ಯ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let alone helping others; man lives because of them,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just like animals, birds, insects and fish.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It asks for nothing, but helps all a great deal--</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Isn't it blessed to be born a tree? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜೀವನವದೊಂದು ಕಲೆ ಕಲೆಯ ಕಲಿಸುವುದೆಂತು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಾವಿರದ ನಿಯಮ ಯುಕ್ತಿಗಳನೊರೆದೊಡೆಯುಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆವುದೋ ಕುಶಲತೆಯದೊಂದಿರದೆ ಜಯವಿರದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆ ವಿವರ ನಿನ್ನೊಳಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Living is an art; how can art be taught?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even after giving myriad rules and tricks,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the absence of wit, success departs.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Its details are within you. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹಕ್ಕಿ ಮುನ್ನರಿಯುವುದೆ ತನ್ನ ಪಯಣದ ತೆರನ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಕ್ಕುವರಾರದನು ಕರೆದು ತಿರುಪೆಯನು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ರೆಕ್ಕೆ ಪೋದಂತಲೆದು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದುದನುಣ್ಣುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಕ್ಕುದಾ ವ್ರತ ನಿನಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Does the bird know ahead about its sojourn?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Who is there to feed grain for it either?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It goes where its wings take; it eats what it finds.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is a good way to live. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೆರಳುಗಳ ನೋಡವುಗಳೊಂದರಂತೊಂದಿಲ್ಲ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕರಧರ್ಮಕುಚಿತವಾ ಹೆಚ್ಚುಕಡಮೆಗಳು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪುರುಳ ಪಿಡಿವುವೆ ಬೆರಳ್ಗಳೆಲ್ಲಮೊಂದುದ್ದವಿರೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸರಿಯಹುದು ಕಾರ್ಯದಲಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Look at your fingers, no two are alike.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those differences help in hand's functions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If the fingers were similar, could we hold things?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[Diversity is] good for work. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶರನಿಧಿಯನೀಜುವನು ಸಮರದಲಿ ಕಾದುವನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗುರಿಯೊಂದನುಳಿದು ಪೆರತೊಂದ ನೋಡುವನೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮರೆಯುವನು ತಾನೆಂಬುದನೆ ಮಹಾವೇಶದಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿರಹಂತೆಯದು ಮೋಕ್ಷ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The swimmer who crosses the sea, the soldier at war:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Does not see anything but his goal.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He forgets himself in his effort to achieve his aim.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That is liberation. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸತ್ತೆವೆನ್ನಾಶೆಗಳು ಗೆದ್ದೆನಿಂದ್ರಿಯಗಣವ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಚಿತ್ತವಿನ್ನಲುಗದೆಂಬಾ ಜಂಭ ಬೇಡ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಎತ್ತಣಿಂದಲೋ ಗಾಳಿ ಮೋಹಬೀಜವ ತಂದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಿತ್ತಲಾರದೆ ಮನದಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"My desires are gone, I've won my senses,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My mind will waver not." --brag not like that.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can not the wind, from somewhere, bring</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A seed of temptation and sow it in you? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒರ್ವನೇ ನಿಲುವೆ ನೀನುತ್ಕಟಕ್ಷಣಗಳಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧರ್ಮಸಂಕಟಗಳಲಿ ಜೀವಸಮರದಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿರ್ವಾಣದೀಕ್ಷೆಯಲಿ ನಿರ್ಯಾಣಘಟ್ಟದಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿರ್ಮಿತ್ರನಿರಲು ಕಲಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Alone will you be in heartfelt moments,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In ethical dilemmas, in the battle of life,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In enlightenment, on your way to grave.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Learn to be without friends. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅತ್ಯಂತದುತ್ಕಟದ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳ ಭರ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕ್ಷದರ್ಶನದಿನಲ್ಲದೆಂತಹುದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ಚಿತ್ರದಿಂದೂಹಿಪೆಯ ಹಿಮಗಿರಿಯ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವಿಸ್ತಾರದದ್ಭುತವ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The intensity of profound situations</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cannot be felt but by experience.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can you look at a picture and make out</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The glory of Himalayas? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ರವಿ ನಿಲದೆ ಸುತ್ತುತಿರೆ ಕೊರಗು ಕಳವಳವೇಕೊ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸವೆಯಿಸುತಲೆಲ್ಲವನು ಕಡೆಗೊಯ್ವನವನು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕವಳಿಸುವುದೆಲ್ಲವನು ಮರೆವು ಬಾಳೊಳದೊಂದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶಿವಕೃಪೆಯ ಲಕ್ಷಣವೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When the sun comes up everyday without fail, why worry?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He ages everything and takes it away in the end.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Memory fails in us, gobbling up one and all. It is</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Such a good thing in life! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಳೆಯಿಂದ ಮೊಳಕೆಯೊಗೆವಂದು ತಮಟೆಗಳಿಲ್ಲ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಫಲ ಮಾಗುವಂದು ತುತ್ತೂರಿ ದನಿಯಿಲ್ಲ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೆಳಕೀವ ಸೂರ್ಯಚಂದ್ರರದೊಂದು ಸದ್ದಿಲ್ಲ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಲಿ ನಿನ್ನ ತುಟಿಗಳನು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A new plant sprouts from a seed, without any fanfare.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A flower ripens into a fruit without any trumpet call.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sun and moon shine on earth without any commotion:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Open not your mouth [in self-praise]. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬರುವೆಲ್ಲ ಬೇನೆಗಂ ಮದ್ದನಾರಿರಿಸಿಹರು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನರರ ಕೀಳ್ತನಕೆಲ್ಲ ಪರಿಹಾರವೆಂತು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಿರಿದು ಪಲ್ಲನು ತಾಳಿಕೊಳಲೆಬೇಕಷ್ಟಿಷ್ಟು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧರೆಯಂತರುಷ್ಣವನು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Who has come up with medicine for every malady?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What can cease the many vulgarities of people?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One only has to grin and bear some of it,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just as the earth holds its hot core. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೋರಾಡು ಬೀಳ್ವನ್ನಮೊಬ್ಬೊಂಟಿಯಾದೊಡಂ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧೀರಪಥವನೆ ಬೆದಕು ಸಕಲಸಮಯದೊಳಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದೂರದಲಿ ಗೊಣಗುತ್ತ ಬಾಳ್ವ ಬಾಳ್ಗೇನು ಬೆಲೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೋರಿ ಸತ್ತ್ವವ ಮೆರಸು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fight, even if you are alone and falling.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Look for the brave path at all times.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What worth is a life spent grumbling?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Be like the fighter ram! --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತನ್ನ ಶಕ್ತಿಯನಳೆದು ತನ್ನ ಗುಣಗಳ ಬಗೆದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶದ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮವನರಿತು ಧೃತಿದಳೆದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತನ್ನ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯಪರಿಧಿಯ ಮೀರದುಜ್ಜುಗಿಸೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪುಣ್ಯಶಾಲಿಯ ಪಾಡು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Weighing one's strengths and weaknesses,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Considering the gravity of the situation, and resolute,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And without crossing one's limits, --if one works,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blessed indeed is he. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಗವೆನ್ನ ಮುದ್ದಿಸದದೇಕೆಂದು ಕೊರಗದಿರು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಗುವು ಪೆತ್ತರ್ಗೆ ನೀಂ ಲೋಕಕೆ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೆಗಲಹೊರೆ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದರ್ಗೆಲ್ಲಮಿರುತಿರೆ ನಿನ್ನ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ರಗಳೆಗಾರಿಗೆ ಬಿಡುವೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gripe not that nobody cares for you:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are a baby for your parents; for others you are another competitor.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When everyone in this world has a burden to carry,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Who wants to hear your grouse? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧರ್ಮಸಂಕಟದಿ ಮನ ತಲ್ಲಣಿಸುತಿರುವಂದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿರ್ಮಥಿಸು ನಿನ್ನಾತ್ಮವನೆ ಮಮತೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿರ್ಮಮದ ಸದ್ವಿವೇಕದ ದೀಪಕಿಂತ ನೀಂ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನೆಮ್ಮಲಿನ್ನೇನಿಹುದೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When your mind is perplexed with ethical dilemma,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Introspect yourself with dispassion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What else but the light of conscience,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can you depend upon? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕ್ಲೇಶ ನೂರಾಗಿರೆಯುಮಾಶೆಗಳ ಪುನರುದಯ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೇಸರದ ನುಡಿಯೊಳಂ ಲೇಸುಗಳ ನೆನಪು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆಶೆ ಸಾಯ್ತೆಂದೊಡಂ ಚೆಲುವೆನಲು ಕಣ್ಣಲೆತ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಾಸವೀ ಜೀವಗುಣ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even amid a hundred troubles, renewed cravings!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amidst words of scorn, memories of happier times!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even on death bed, lustful eyes that seek beauty!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">These primordial instincts perish not. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಿದ್ದುದನು ನಿಲ್ಲಿಪುದೆ ನರನ ಮೃತ್ಯುಂಜಯತೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶುದ್ಧಿಸದೆ ನಭ ಧರೆಯ ಮರಮರಳಿ ಮಳೆಯಿಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗದ್ದೆ ಕೊಯ್ಲಾಗೆ ಮಗುಳ್ದದು ಬೆಳೆಯ ಕೊಡದಿಹುದೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಿದ್ದ ಮನೆಯನು ಕಟ್ಟೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Man's immortality is in rebuilding what has been razed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Does not the sky clean the earth again and again with rain?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Does not the earth give a new crop after harvest?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Reconstruct your fallen house! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಭವಿಷ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಕಕ್ಕುಲಿತಗೊಳಬೇಡ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪಕ್ಕಾಗುವುದು ಭಾಗ್ಯವೆಂತೆಂತೊ ಜಗದಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಕ್ಕಿತೇಂ ಕುರುಪಾಂಡುತನಯರ್ಗೆ ರಾಜ್ಯಸುಖ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಿಕ್ಕವರಿಗವರವರೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do not fret over your children's future.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are many ways for luck to knock their door.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Did Kauravas or Pandavas get to enjoy kingship? [1]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One alone is responsible for oneself. --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] These are the warring factions in the epic Mahabharata, both sons of two royal brothers. Ruling Kauravas hate beneficent Pandavas and wish to destroy them, but the latter win in the Mahabharata war, although not before the genocide of Kauravas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಾಕುಸಾಕೆನಿಸುವುದು ಲೋಕಸಂಪರ್ಕಸುಖ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸೋಕಿದೆಡೆ ತುರಿಯನೆಬ್ಬಿಸುವ ತುರುಚಿಯದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೂಕನವೆ ತುರಿಸದಿರೆ ತುರಿಯುತಿರೆ ಹುಣ್ಣುರಿತ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೂಕನಪಹಾಸ್ಯವಿದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Worldly pleasures seem so very tiring,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like the allergic weed that itches on contact.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It itches if you don't scratch, but it hurts if you do.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is like mocking a dumb man. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಫಲವಿಲ್ಲ ಕಾರ್ಯಕಾರಣವಾದದಿಂ ತತ್ತ್ವ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಿಲುಕದೆಮ್ಮಯ ತರ್ಕಕರ್ಕಶಾಂಕುಶಕೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸುಳಿವುದಾಗೀಗಳದು ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮಾನುಭವಗಳಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಿಳಿಮನದಿ ನೋಳ್ಪರ್ಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is no use debating on cause and effect,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">For wisdom does not fall into the coarse trap of logic.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In intense experiences does it gleam, sometimes,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And to the beginner's mind. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಟ್ಟೆರಾಯನ ನಿತ್ಯದಟ್ಟಹಾಸವೊ ಬಾಳು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧೃಷ್ಟಧಣಿಯೂಳಿಗಕೆ ಸೊಟ್ಟು ಮೈಬಾಗು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹಿಟ್ಟಿಗಗಲಿದ ಬಾಯಿ ಬಟ್ಟೆಗೊಡ್ಡಿದ ಕೈಯಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಷ್ಟೆ ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲ ಕಥೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Life is a tyranny of the Stomach King.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We bend over and work to be fed by cruel masters.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A mouth open for bread, a hand held across for clothing:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Isn't this all our tales? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಗೆದು ಗೊಬ್ಬರವಿಕ್ಕಿ ನೀರೆರೆದು ತೋಟಿಗನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಗಿವ ಮುಳ್ಳಿರಿತಗಳ ಸೈರಿಸೆ ಗುಲಾಬಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಗುವುದೊಂದರೆ ನಿಮಿಷ ನಗಲು ಬಾಳ್ಮುಗಿಯುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮುಗುಳು ದುಡಿತಕೆ ತಣಿಸು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A gardener has to dig, throw manure and water,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And tolerate its thorns to see a rose bloom</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Only for a moment. Then it withers away.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But the blossom absolves all his toil. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಣ್ಗೆರಡದೇಕೆರಡುಮೊಂದೆ ಪಕ್ಕದೊಳೇಕೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬೆನ್ನೊಳೊಂದೆದೆಯೊಳೊಂದಿರಲು ಸುಕರವಲ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅನ್ಯಾಯ ವಿಕಟಂಗಳೆನಿತೊ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಕ್ರಮದಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸೊನ್ನೆ ಜನವಾಕ್ಕಲ್ಲಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why do we have our eyes next to each other?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Wouldn't it be better if we had one each on our back and chest?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Many are the injustices and travesties in Nature.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">People's opinion does not matter to Her. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಾರನಂ ದಂಡಿಸಿರೆ ಗೌರಿಯಿಂ ಭಯವೇನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಚಾರು ಸಹಕಾರಿಯವಳೆಂದು ಶಿವನೊಲಿದನ್ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೀರೆ ಮೋಹವನು ಸಂಸಾರದಿಂ ಭಯವೇನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಾರಿ ಕೆಳೆಯದು ನಿನಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you can keep Cupid at bay, why dread Woman?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Siva married Parvati as a friend and companion. [1]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you are beyond attachment, you need not fear marriage.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is your friend as you tread the path of life. -Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] Siva is the ascetic God of destruction in Hinduism. He was opposed to marriage, but had to relent in front of Parvati's unfailing love for him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಂಬು ದೇವರ ನಂಬು ನಂಬೆನ್ನುವುದು ಲೋಕ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಂಬನಿಯನಿಡುವ ಜನ ನಂಬಲೊಲ್ಲದರೇಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹಂಬಲನೆ ತೊರೆದಂಗೆ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯ ಹಂಗೇಕೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತುಂಬು ವಿರತಿಯ ಮನದಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">They ask me to believe and trust in God.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Are the people in sorrow disbelievers, then?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is the need for belief if you have no desire?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fill your mind with detachment. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಎದ್ದೆದ್ದು ಬೀಳುತಿಹೆ ಗುದ್ದಾಡಿ ಸೋಲುತಿಹೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗದ್ದಲವ ತುಂಬಿ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧನಾಗುತಿಹೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಉದ್ಧರಿಸುವೆನು ಜಗವನೆನ್ನುತಿಹ ಸಖನೆ ನಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನ್ನುದ್ಧಾರವೆಷ್ಟಾಯ್ತೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are having many falls, you are losing the fight.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your fame is all noise and commotion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My friend, you are saying you will uplift the world,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But what about yourself? –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪ್ರೇಮಾತಿಶಯವಿರದ ದಾಂಪತ್ಯ ವರ್ಧಿಸದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವ್ಯಾಮೋಹಕೆಡೆಗೊಟ್ಟೊಡದು ನಿಗಳವಹುದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಾಮರಸ್ಯವನೆಂತು ಕಾಣ್ಬುದೀ ವಿಷಮದಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆಮಿಷದ ತಂಟೆಯಿದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Without surfeit of love, marriage will not prosper.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But if love turns to attachment, bond becomes a bondage.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Between these opposites, how shall I bring accord?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is a game of temptation. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಾಗೆಯುಂ ಕೋಗಿಲೆಯುವೊಂದೆ ಮೇಲ್ನೋಟಕ್ಕೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಯೋಗಿಯುಂ ಸಂಸಾರಭೋಗಿಯೇ ಹೊರಕೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಲೋಗರವೊಲಿರುತೆ ಸುಖದುಃಖಸಂಭ್ರಮಗಳಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತ್ಯಾಗಿಯವನಂತರದಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The crow and cuckoo look much the same;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The yogi also appears to pamper himself much.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But although amidst people, in joys and sorrows,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He is tranquil within. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಹೂದೋಟದಲಿ ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಕೆಳೆಕೂಟದಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಸಂಗೀತದಲಿ ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರದಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಸಂಸಾರದಲಿ ಮತ್ತೊಮ್ಮೆ ಮೌನದಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾನುಭವಿಯಾಗೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In garden of flowers, in gathering of friends,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In music, in knowledge and scholarship,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In family, and in the deep silence of solitude:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Feel the Brahman. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊರಗೆ ಲೋಕಾಸಕ್ತಿಯೊಳಗೆ ಸಕಲ ವಿರಕ್ತಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊರಗೆ ಕಾರ್ಯಧ್ಯಾನವೊಳಗುದಾಸೀನ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊರಗೆ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಭಾರವೊಳಗದರ ತಾತ್ಸಾರ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವರಯೋಗಮಾರ್ಗವಿದು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Apparently interested in worldly affairs, but internally detached from it all.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Externally immersed in work, but within, disinterest [in its outcome].</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the outside very traditional, but in the heart, indifferent to it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is the supreme way for union [with the divine]. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೃತನ ಸಂಸಾರಕಥೆ ಶವವಾಹಕರಿಗೇಕೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸತಿಯು ಗೋಳಿಡಲಿ ಸಾಲಿಗನು ಬೊಬ್ಬಿಡಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಿತಮನದಿ ಚಿತಿಗಟ್ಟಿ ಕೊಂಡೊಯ್ಯುತಿಹರವರು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಧೃತಿಯ ತಳೆ ನೀನಂತು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Would the bearers of a dead man bother about his story?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">His wife may weep, his moneylender may bawl:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unperturbed, they simply carry the corpse to its grave.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Develop such dispassion, you too. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸ್ಮಿತವಿರಲಿ ವದನದಲಿ ಕಿವಿಗೆ ಕೇಳಿಸದಿರಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹಿತವಿರಲಿ ವಚನದಲಿ ಋತವ ಬಿಡದಿರಲಿ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಿತವಿರಲಿ ಮನಸಿನುದ್ವೇಗದಲಿ ಭೋಗದಲಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅತಿ ಬೇಡವೆಲ್ಲಿಯುಂ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let there be a soft smile on your face,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let your speech be truthful and pleasant,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let there be restraint in emotions, in indulgence;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let there not be excesses anywhere. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕಾರಿರುರೊಳಾಗಸದಿ ತಾರೆ ನೂರಿದ್ದೇನು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಾರಿಗನ ಕಣ್ಗೆ ಬೇಕೊಂದು ಮನೆಬೆಳಕು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದೂರದಾ ದೈವವಂತಿರಲಿ ಮಾನುಷಸಖನ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕೋರುವುದು ಬಡಜೀವ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So what if the night sky has a million stars?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The weary traveller looks for the lights of a dwelling.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let alone any divine being, this poor soul</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Seeks a bosom friend. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಿಡದಿ ನಗುತಿರುವ ಹೂ ಪ್ರಕೃತಿಸಖನಿಗೆ ಚೆಂದ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಡದಿ ಮುಡಿದಿರುವ ಹೂ ಯುವಕಂಗೆ ಚೆಂದ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗುಡಿಯೊಳಗೆ ಕೊಡುವ ಹೂ ದೆೃವಭಕ್ತಗೆ ಚೆಂದ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಿಡಿಗಾಸು ಹೂವಳಗೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A flower on a plant makes the naturalist happy,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A flower in his wife's braid makes a young man happy,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A flower that bedecks his God makes a devotee happy,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A penny makes the florist happy. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸರ್ವರುಂ ಸಾಧುಗಳೆ ಸರ್ವರುಂ ಬೋಧಕರೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜೀವನ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಬಂದಿದಿರು ನಿಲುವನಕ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಭಾವಮರ್ಮಂಗಳೇಳುವವಾಗ ತಳದಿಂದ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದೇವರೇ ಗತಿಯಾಗ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Everyone is a saint, everyone wants to advise:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Until they come to face a crisis in life. Then,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">An emotional storm arises from deep within;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">God alone is the resort then! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಯೊಂದರ ರಗಳೆ ಸಾಲದೆಂದೇನೊ ವಿಧಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಕಿಚ್ಚಿನ ಕಿಡಿಯ ನೆಟ್ಟಿಹನು ನರನೊಳ್ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಟ್ಟೆತುಂಬಿದ ತೋಳ ಮಲಗೀತು ನೀಂ ಪರರ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದಿಟ್ಟಿಸುತ ಕರುಬುವೆಯೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">As if hunger itself is not vicious enough,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fate has planted jealousy in Man.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A wolf that has feasted will fall asleep. But</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You will look at others and envy them! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶ್ವಾನ ತಿಪ್ಪೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಮಲಗಿರಲು ಪೂರ್ವಿಕ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜ್ಞಾನ ಪಶ್ಚಾತ್ತಾಪ ಶುಭಚಿಂತೆಯಂತೆ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಏನೊ ವಾಸನೆ ಬೀಸಲದು ಹಾರಿ ಧುಮುಕುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಾನವನ ಮನಸಂತು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A dog that is lying on garbage may happen</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To think of its past lives and repent for it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But when it catches a new smell, it runs after it!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Likewise is this mind. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವಹಿಸು ಕೆಲ ಭಾರಗಳ ಸಹಿಸು ಕೆಲ ನೋವುಗಳ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಪ್ರಹರಿಸರಿಗಳನಿನಿತು ಯುಕ್ತಗಳನರಿತು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಹಿಯ ನಾಟಕದಿ ನೀಂ ಮನಸಿಟ್ಟು ಕುಣಿಕುಣಿದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವಿಹರಿಸಾತ್ಮಾಲಯದಿ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bear some stress, bear some sorrows,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Biding for time, quash some of your foes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In this drama called life, always act mindfully;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And revel within yourself. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಂಗಿತಜ್ಞಾನವಿಲ್ಲದ ಬಂಧು ಪರಿವಾರ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹಂಗಿಸುವ ಛಲವುಳ್ಳ ಸತಿಪುತ್ರಸಖರು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಬಂಗಾರದಸಿ ಚುಚ್ಚೆ ಸಿಂಗರದ ಬೊಟ್ಟೆನುವ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಂಗಬುದ್ಧಿಯ ಜನರು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Relatives who do not understand your personality,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Family and friends who look upon you with derision;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Are foolish people who would call it pretty</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you pierced your nose with a splinter of gold! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಋಣದ ಮೂಟೆಯ ಹೊರಿಸಿ ಪೂರ್ವಾ ರ್ಜಿತದ ಹುರಿಯ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕುಣಿಕೆಯಲಿ ನಿನ್ನ ಕೊರಳನು ಬಿಗಿದು ವಿಧಿಯು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತೃಣದ ಕಡ್ಡಿಯ ಮುಂದೆ ಹಿಡಿದಾಶೆ ತೋರುತಿರೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕುಣಿವ ಗಾರ್ದಭ ನೀನು ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A sack of arrears is loaded on its back, tied</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To its neck by Providence for its past debts.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And now, as Providence lures it with a blade of grass,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The donkey that is you dances! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಸಚಿಗುರು ಹಳೆಬೇರು ಕೂಡಿರಲು ಮರ ಸೊಗಸು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಹೊಸಯುಕ್ತಿ ಹಳೆತತ್ತ್ವದೊಡಗೂಡೆ ಧರ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಋಷಿವಾಕ್ಯದೊಡನೆ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕಲೆ ಮೇಳವಿಸೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜಸವು ಜನಜೀವನಕೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">New leaves and old roots are what makes a tree magnificent.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">New knowledge and old principles meld to become dharma.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If wisdom of the sages can blend with the new sciences,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It would be for the benefit the humanity. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೌನದೊಳೊ ಮಾತಿನೊಳೊ ಹಾಸ್ಯದೊಳೊ ಹಾಡಿನೊಳೊ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮಾನವಂ ಪ್ರಣಯದೊಳೊ ವೀರ ವಿಜಯದೊಳೊ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಏನೋ ಎಂತೋ ಸಮಾಧಾನಗಳನರಸುತಿಹ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಾನಂದವಾತ್ಮಗುಣ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In silence, in gossip, in humour, in music,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So also in love, in bravery and victory;</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In all these and more does Man seek peace and joy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But happiness is within the soul! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ತಿರುತಿರುಗಿ ತೊಳಲುವುದು ತಿರಿದನ್ನವುಣ್ಣುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮೆರೆದು ಮೈಮರೆಯುವುದು ಹಲ್ಲ ಕಿರಿಯುವುದು ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮರಳಿ ಕೊರಗಾಡುವುದು ಕೆರಳುವುದು ನರಳುವುದು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇರವಿದೇನೊಣರಗಳೆ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To stray about and tire. To beg and feed oneself.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To brag and act in conceit. To simper and fawn.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To wilt and whine; to be furious; to be miserable:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is this living but a child's antic! –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಂದು ಮದುವೆಯ ಹಬ್ಬ ನಾಳೆ ವೈಕುಂಠ ತಿಥಿ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಂದು ಮೃಷ್ಟಾನ್ನ ಸುಖ ನಾಳೆ ಭಿಕ್ಷಾನ್ನ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಇಂದು ಬರಿಯುಪವಾಸ ನಾಳೆ ಪಾರಣೆಯಿಂತು ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಂದಿರುವುದನ್ನಋಣ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A wedding feast today, a funeral lunch tomorrow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A lavish treat today, as alms to your begging bowl tomorrow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A fast today, a feast tomorrow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thus does Fate spread your food across many givers. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅರಿ ಮಿತ್ರ ಸತಿ ಪುತ್ರ ಬಂಧು ಬಳಗವದೆಲ್ಲ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕರುಮದವತಾರಗಳೊ ಋಣಲತೆಯ ಚಿಗುರೋ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕುರಿಯನಾಗಿಸಿ ನಿನ್ನ ಕಾಪಿಡುವ ಸಂಸಾರ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ವುರಿಮಾರಿಯಾದೀತೋ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your enemy, friend, wife, child, your kith and your kin -- these are all</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Avatars of your karma. They are the new leaves in your plant of debt. [1]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The samsara that makes you a sheep and protects you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can be the devil that takes you as sacrifice! --Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[1] Your contacts are a consequence of your past actions. They are here because you owe them something. (See Doctrine of Karma)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Note: the metaphor of plant of debt ("rnalathe") as a creeper that is tied to you and grows with you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅನುಭವದ ಪಾಲೊಳು ವಿಚಾರಮಂಥನವಾಗೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಜನಿಯಿಕುಂ ಜ್ಞಾನನವನೀತವದೆ ಸುಖದಂ ।।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಗಿಣಿಯೋದು ಪುಸ್ತಕಜ್ಞಾನ ನಿನ್ನನುಭವವೆ ।</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ನಿನಗೆ ಧರುಮದ ದೀಪ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Your experience is milk. Churn it with your faculty of discretion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To beget the cream of wisdom. That is what makes living pleasurable.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even parrot can have book-knowledge! Know that your experience alone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is your guiding light. –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಂತೂ ಇಂತೂ ಎಂಟೂ ಜೀವಕಥೆ ಮುಗಿಯುವುದು |</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅಂದೂ ಎಂದೂ ಎಂದೂ ಜನುಮ ಕಳೆಯುವುದು ||</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಒಂದೇ ಮರುವಿನ ಮುಸುಕು ಮುಸುಕಲಿಹುದೆಲ್ಲವನು |</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಸಂತಸದ ಮಾತಿಷ್ಟೇ - ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ||</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This way or that, the story of life will be over.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">today, tomorrow, some day there will be an end.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But there will be one veil of forgetfulness (covering all our miseries)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">and that is the beauty of life.–Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕ್ಷನವೊಂದೆ ಅನಂತಕಾಲ ತನಗುವುದು</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಅನುಭಾವಕೆ ಸತ್ತ್ವ ಶಿವ ಸುಂದರಗಳಮರೆ |</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಮನ ತುಮ್ಬುಶಶಿಯಾಗಿ , ನೆನಪಮ್ರುತವಗುವುದು</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಕ್ಷನದೊಳಕ್ಶಯ ಕಣೋ – ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ||</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A moment becomes eternal in itself</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When truth, beauty and God combine with experience</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mind becomes full-moon, memory becomes ambrosia</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">See the infinity in the moment –Mankuthimma</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಶ್ರೀ ವಿಷ್ಣು ವಿಶ್ವಾದಿಮೂಲ ಮಾಯಾಲೋಲ</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ದೇವಸರ್ವೇಶ ಪರಬೊಮ್ಮ ನೆಮ್ದುಜನಂ</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ಆವುದನು ಕಾನದೋದ ಮಲ್ತಿಯಿಂ ನಂಬಿಹುದೋ</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821327896114077602.post-61827210607162284282010-04-20T07:47:00.000-07:002015-06-13T18:26:02.158-07:00Dr. Devanahalli Venkataramanayya Gundappa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">D.V.Gundappa (DVG), born in 1889, was a matriculate who started working as a journalist at the age of 16. Two years later, he was publishing his own newspaper. He went on to become a titan of Kannada literature, writing on subjects that covered philosophy and literature, sociology and history </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">DVG obtained fundamental education in Kannada as well as English, while learning Sanskrit on his own. Although his formal education did not proceed beyond high school, his works have been serving as graduate study material. antahpura geetegaLu, baaLigondu nambike, jeevana dharma yoga, jnyaapaka chitra shaale, maruLa muniyana kagga, samskruti, umarana osage …. are some of his well known works, mankutimmana kagga is undoubtedly the crown jewel. It is not uncommon to find that there is hardly any aspect of life that this work does not touch. Hailed as the common man’s Bhagavad-Gita by many – for simplicity of language, vastness, greatness and poetic flow of content – scope and understanding of almost every verse from this work seems to grow richer and deeper with one’s own experience in life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mankuthimmana Kagga is one of the most famous and popular major literary works in Kannada, composed by Dr. D. V. Gundappa, and published in 1943. It is widely regarded as a masterpiece among the Kannada speaking population in southern India. DVG is known for his simplicity and high thinking. This Kagga triggers thought process for everybody irrespective of the individuals knowledge level. Its meaning assumes wider dimensions as one repeatedly reads it. The verses are very practical, straight, rich in moral values, not confined any religion, caste or creed. It need not be read in any order . One can choose to read it randomly . Because they are called ” Muktakas”. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The following are the chief characters of “Kagga”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1. All are 4 lines (Chowpadi Rachanegalu).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">2. All are in (Aaadi praasa) means 2nd word of every line is the same in all the four lines.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">3. They are called “Muktaka galu”. Independant verses.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">4. They all end with the ankitan naama ” Mankutimma”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One day my co-brother Mr. Sridhar Babu handed over the cassettes of the discourse of Mankuthimmana Kagga in Kannada by Swami Brahmananda, the head of Chinmaya Mission, Bangalore. After listening to the discourse I learnt the way of life & the true meaning of life. Mankuthimmana Kagga which is called the modern Bhagavad-Gita is considered a Noble prize winning material, if it had been written in English. The greatness of this work is that it makes the reader see himself through the poems, to interpret the thoughts of the poet in his own way. The philosophy hidden in these short 4 liners is suited for any section of the society regardless of their religion, status, qualification etc. Basically it is for the entire humanity, such is the vastness and depth of DVG’s most of the literary works.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Martin Luther King popularly know as as the "Gandhi of America" was influenced by the writings of D.V.G and had met him in 1960 at his residence in Nagasandra Road. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is also available on web to download - http://www.brahmanandaji.blogspot.com/2007/09/dvgs-manku-timmana-kagga.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sreeram Manoj Kumar</span></span></div>
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