Tyagaraja Kriti

Meaning - Gist
I shall, with understanding, propitiate by worshipping -

One who has a smiling face,
the stealer of my heart,
the Hero ruling the Universe,
the suitor of janakI,
the Lord of celestials and others,
the divinely beautiful One,
the Lord SrI vAsudEva,
the Lord rAghava - the consort of sItA,
the treasure of true knowledge,
One who has moon and the Sun as His eyes,
the Sun who dispels the darkness of ignorance,
One with blemish-less form,
the destroyer of entire sins,
the Eminent One who kindly bestows (the results of) purushArtha – beginning with righteous conduct to liberation, and
the Lord well-praised by this tyAgarAja.

Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
nagu mOmu gala vAni nA manO-haruni
jagamu-Elu SUruni jAnakI varuni

I shall, with understanding, propitiate by worshipping -
One who has (gala vAni) a smiling (nagu) face (mOmu),
the stealer (haruni) of my (nA) heart (manas) (manO-haruni),
the Hero (SUruni) ruling (Elu) the Universe (jagamu) (jagamElu), and
the suitor (varuni) of janakI.

caraNam
caraNam 1
dEva-Adi dEvuni divya sundaruni
SrI vAsudEvuni sItA rAghavuni (nagu)

I shall, with understanding, propitiate by worshipping –
the Lord (dEvuni) of celestials (dEva) and others (Adi) (dEvAdi),
the divinely (divya) beautiful (sundaruni) One,
the Lord SrI vAsudEva (vAsudEvuni), and
the Lord rAghava (rAghavuni) - the consort of sItA.

caraNam 2
su-jnAna nidhini sOma sUrya lOcanuni
ajnAna tamamunu aNacu bhAskaruni (nagu)

I shall, with understanding, propitiate by worshipping -
the treasure (nidhini) of true knowledge (su-jnAna),
One who has moon (sOma) and the Sun (sUrya) as His eyes (lOcanuni), and
the Sun (bhaskara) (bhAskaruni) who dispels (aNacu) (literally subdues) the darkness (tamamunu) of ignorance (ajnAna).

caraNam 3
nirmala-AkAruni nikhila-agha haruni
dharma-Adi mOkshambu daya cEyu ghanuni (nagu)

I shall, with understanding, propitiate by worshipping –
One with blemish-less (nirmala) form (AkAruni) (nirmalAkAruni),
the destroyer (haruni) of entire (nikhila) sins (agha) (nikhilAgha), and
the Eminent One (ghanuni) who kindly bestows (daya cEyu) (the results of) purushArtha – beginning with (Adi) righteous conduct (dharma) (dharmAdi) to liberation (mOkshambu).

caraNam 4
bOdhatO palumAru pUjinci nEnu-
ArAdhintu SrI tyAgarAja sannutuni (nagu)

I (nEnu) shall propitiate (ArAdhintu) (nEnArAdhintu) the Auspicious (SrI) Lord well-praised (sannutuni) by this tyAgarAja with understanding (bOdhatO) by worshipping (pUjinci) Him constantly (palumAru) (literally often).

Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)

References
² – dharmAdi mOkshambu – four-fold purushArtha – pursuit of dharma (righteous conduct), artha (wealth), kAma (desires) and mOksha (liberation).

Comments
¹ – vAsudEva - indwelling Supreme Lord.

General – the layout of the kRti is such that the caraNa 4 needs to be added to pallavi and each other caraNa in order to complete sense. Therefore, it is not appropriate to sing pallavi or caraNas 1 to 3 independently.
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