Lyrics for sAku sAku manujasEvE please

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smala
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Lyrics for sAku sAku manujasEvE please

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This may be a composition by Kanakadasa - features in the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k458Sk1e1x8

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Re: Lyrics for sAku sAku manujasEvE please

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smala ji.
this version was found in a old publication.It may differ from the link you have provided.
sAku sAku manuja sEveyu rangayya innu[p]
sAku sAku manujasEve mADi daNidu nonde nAnu
bEku ninna pAdaBhajane lOkadoDeya rangarAya[ap]
hottareddu hOgi parara cittavrittiyanne aritu
nityadalli halavu kelasa Bhrityanante mADi
rikta hastadinda manege sEruve
AsegAgi matte kanDa kaDege tolaguve
bandu apara rAtriyalli tindu oraguve rangayya ranga[c1]
snAna mouna nitya sanDhyAna nEmagaLane toredu
hInanAgi keTTa janmagaLali tirugi tirugi
ShvAnanante dinava kaLedenO
duraseyannu manadaliTTukonDu kudivenO
konege eLLukALinaShTu suKhava kANenO rangayya ranga[c2]
oDalinAsegAgi noNavu tuNuki biddu jEninoLage
miDukuvante bAyabiDuve bisaruhAkShane
biDisO enna banDhapAShava kAgineleyAdikEShava
koDisO ninna Bhaktara sangava
oDeya venkaTAdri mADhava rangayya ranga[c3]
{This is a composition of Sri Kanakadasaru}

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Re: Lyrics for sAku sAku manujasEvE please

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Please post the translation as well, Smt. Savitri. Many thanks for your prompt help.

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sAku sAku manuja sEveyu rangayya innu[p]
sAku sAku manujasEve mADi daNidu nonde nAnu
bEku ninna pAdaBhajane lOkadoDeya rangarAya[ap]
hottareddu hOgi parara cittavrittiyanne aritu
nityadalli halavu kelasa Bhrityanante mADi
rikta hastadinda manege sEruve
AsegAgi matte kanDa kaDege tolaguve
bandu apara rAtriyalli tindu oraguve rangayya ranga[c1]
snAna mouna nitya sanDhyAna nEmagaLane toredu
hInanAgi keTTa janmagaLali tirugi tirugi
ShvAnanante dinava kaLedenO
duraseyannu manadaliTTukonDu kudivenO
konege *eLLukALinaShTu* suKhava kANenO rangayya ranga[c2]
oDalinAsegAgi noNavu tuNuki biddu jEninoLage
miDukuvante bAyabiDuve bisaruhAkShane
biDisO enna banDhapAShava kAgineleyAdikEShava
koDisO ninna Bhaktara sangava
oDeya venkaTAdri mADhava rangayya ranga[c3]
{This is a composition of Sri Kanakadasaru}
Meaning::
Enough is enough of this service to humans rangayya,now[p]
enough,enough,I am tired of this servitude to humans, I am hurt.
I need to sing your glory Oh Lord of this world,RangarAya[ap]
Waking up early in the morning,I go to others,get to know their will
like a servant I work daily and return home, empty handed.
In my greed I will again take myself away elsewhere
come home in the dead of night, eat, sleep rangayya rangA[c1]
I have given up bath,*silence*,sandhyAvandana,and other rituals
the wretch I am,taking birth again and again in lowly origins,
like a dog I spend my day. Keeping greed in mind I boil over
In the end ,I cannot find an iota of happiness rangayya rangA[c2]
As a hungry fly in haste, slips into honey and loaths [its action]
I am crying with an open mouth,Oh lotus eyed Lord!
extricate me from this binding rope AdikEShava of kAginele,
grant me the company of your devotees,
Lord mADhava of venkaTAdri,rangayya ranga[c3]

{*eLLukALInaShTu*....*not equal to a grain of gingelly’}
{ *mouna’...*oath of silence,mouna vrat}
{apologies to SrI Kanakadasaru}

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Re: Lyrics for sAku sAku manujasEvE please

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Thanks again, Smt. Savitri.

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smala ji,
it is my pleasure.

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