pallavi
entani nE varNintunu SabarI bhAgyam(entani)
anupallavi
1dAntula vara kAntalu jagam(a)nta niNDi(y)uNDaga (entani)
caraNam
C kanulAra sEvinci kammani phalamulan(o)sagi
tanuvu pulakarinca pAda yugamulaku mrokki
ina kula pati samukhambuna punar-2AvRtti rahita pada-
munu pondina tyAgarAja nuturAli puNyambunu (entani)
pallavi
entani nE varNintunu SabarI bhAgyamu-(entani)
How much (entani) shall I (nE) describe (varNintunu) the blessedness (bhAgyamu) of SabarI?
anupallavi
dAntula vara kAntalu jagamu-anta niNDi-uNDaga (entani)
While blessed (vara) wives (kAntalu) of ascetics (dAntula) abound (niNDi uNDaga) (niNDiyuNDaga) throughout (anta) the Earth (jagamu) (jagamanta),
how much shall I describe the blessedness of SabarI?
caraNam
kanulAra sEvinci kammani phalamulanu-osagi
tanuvu pulakarinca pAda yugamulaku mrokki
ina kula pati samukhambuna punar-AvRtti rahita
padamunu pondina tyAgarAja nuturAli puNyambunu (entani)
How much shall I describe the merit (puNyambunu) of SabarI – praised (nuturAli) by this tyAgarAja who -
beholding (sEvinci) (literally worship) the Lord to her heart’s (eyes’) content (kanulAra),
offering (osagi) Him the sweetest (kammani) fruits (phalamulanu) (phalamulanosagi), and
worshipping (mrokki) His Feet (pAda yugamulaku) such that she had horripilation (tanuvu pulakarinca),
attained (pondina) the state (padamunu) of non-return (punar-AvRtti rahita) in the very presence (samukhambuna) of SrI rAma – the Chief (pati) of Solar (ina) Dynasty (kula)?
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1 – dAntula vara kAntalu – The implication is that while SrI rAma went to residence of many great ascetics – atri-anusUya, Sarabhanga, sutIkshna, agastya - none had the fortune of attaining liberation, whereas SabarI – an illiterate - whose supreme devotion to her guru and her firm conviction that SrI rAma would come one day, enabled her to attain liberation, and that too in His very presence.
The Vaishnavaite Saint, Vedanta Desika in his 'raghuvIra gadyam' refers to rAma as 'SabarI mOksha sAkshi bhUta' - one who was just a witness to the liberation of SabarI - rAma did not grant her liberation. She had already qualified for that status. Such was the blessedness of Sabari that SrI tyAgarAja fails to find words - 'entani nE varNintu'? raghuvIra gadyam (brief)
2 - AvRtti - The cycle of repeated births and deaths.
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