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PURANDARA DASARU

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daAsarandarE PuraNdara daAsarayyaA https://archive.org/details/da-asarandar-e-pura-ndara-da-asarayya-a DaAsa literally means a servant; Daasyam is one of the nine modes of devotion (Navavidha Bhakti) that are paths to liberation. Sri Purandara Dasaru is an epitome of Daasyam; serving for the cause of God. Staying very much with his family Sri Purandara Dasaru led a life of renunciation and asceticism with total dedication to Lord Sri Hari. Known as Navakoti Naaraayana (wealthy person), Purandara Daasaru (Srinivasa Nayaka) was a success story of a rich & miserly person turning into a highly spiritual Saint composer. He earned much money and lived only to earn it, but eventually gave away all his wealth to become a devotee of Lord Sri Hari consequent to a divine incident. “Navakoti Naaraayana became a Naaraayana Bhakta” A contemporary and a disciple of Saint Sri Vyaasarajaru & a great devotee of Lord Vishnu; Sri Purandara Daasaru (1480-1564 AD) a central figure in Har...

Vijaya Dasaru (Chippagiri)

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  Sri VijayaDasaru ( Ondu chintane) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HLVYN-MEI_OhG3u88jOnVjbCDTEmjT0-/view?usp=sharing Sri Vijaya Dasaru is respected and adored as one of the greatest Haridasas this land has seen. He is credited with the revival of the Haridasa movement in the eighteenth century. He not only composed thousands of devaranamas himself, but also personally sought and trained several disciples to ensure that the movement endured for a long time. He was a junior contemporary of Sri Vadeendra Teertha and visited Mantralaya several times. He is supposed to have seen and conversed with Rayaru personally several times.  Some of the devaranamas composed by him reveal insights that ordinary people would never get. In one song (“noDide gurugaLa noDide ..”), he talks of seeing Lord Narasimha, Rama, Vedavyasa and Krishna on the four sides of the Vrindavana, all the Gurus from Acharya Madhva down to his own guru present within the Vrindavana, and Lord Lakshminarayana in the ...

hetta tAyi taMdegaLa cittava nOyisi - An incredible song by Sri Purandara Dasaru

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An incredible song by Sri Purandara Dasaru (so appropriate in this day and age) ಹೆತ್ತ ತಾಯಿ ತಂದೆಗಳ ಚಿತ್ತವ ನೋಯಿಸಿ ನಿತ್ಯ ದಾನವ ಮಾಡಿ ಫಲವೇನು ಸತ್ಯ ಸದಾಚಾರ ಇಲ್ಲದವನು ಜಪ ಹತ್ತುಸಾವಿರ ಮಾಡಿ ಫಲವೇನು ತನ್ನ ಸತಿ ಸುತರು ಬಂಧುಗಳ ನೋಯಿಸಿ ಚಿನ್ನ ದಾನವ ಮಾಡಿ ಫಲವೇನು ಬಿನ್ನಾಳದಿಂದಲಿ ದೇಶ ದೇಶವ ತಿರುಗಿ ಅನ್ನ ದಾನವ ಮಾಡಿ ಫಲವೇನು ಗೋಪ್ಯ ಗುಣ ಗುಟ್ಟು ಇಲ್ಲದ ಹೆಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ರೂಪ ಯೌವನವಿದ್ದು ಫಲವೇನು ತಾಪತ್ರಯದಿ ಸಂಸಾರ ಕೆಡಿಸುವಂಥ ಪಾಪಿ ಮಗನು ಇದ್ದು ಫಲವೇನು ತುಂಡು ಧನದಿಂದ ತಂದೆ ಮಾತು ಕೇಳದ ತೊಂಡ ಮಗನು ಇದ್ದು ಫಲವೇನು ಭಂಡು ಮಾಡಿ ಅತ್ತೆ ಮಾವನ ಬೈವ ಪುಂಡು ಸೋಸೆಯಿದ್ದು ಫಲವೇನು ಸ್ನಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಪಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಆಗುವ ತಿಳಿ ನೀರು ಕಾನನ ದೊಳಗಿದ್ದು ಫಲವೇನು ಆನಂದ ಮೂರುತಿ ಪುರಂದರ ವಿಠ್ಠಲನ ನೆನೆಯದ ತನುವಿದ್ದು ಫಲವೇನು (ಶ್ರೀ ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸರು) हॆत्त तायि तंदॆगळ चित्तव नोयिसि नित्य दानव माडि फलवेनु सत्य सदाचार इल्लदवनु जप हत्तुसाविर माडि फलवेनु तन्न सति सुतरु बंधुगळ नोयिसि चिन्न दानव माडि फलवेनु बिन्नाळदिंदलि देश देशव तिरुगि अन्न दानव माडि फलवेनु गोप्य गुण गुट्टु इल्लद हॆण्णिगॆ रूप यौवनविद्दु फलवेनु तापत्रयदि संसार कॆडिसुवंथ पापि मगनु इद्दु फलवेनु तुंडु धनदिंद तंदॆ मातु केळद तॊंड मगनु इद्दु फलवेनु भंडु माडि अत्तॆ माव...