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Meaning - Gist
O Respected Preceptor sage SrI nArada - having the shining lute - who protected this tyAgarAja!

May be as a result of penance performed earlier, I beheld You
I besought You whole-heartedly, and today I beheld You to my heart’s content.
The privilege of Your service has been attained by me, and the bondage of Worldly Existence has ceased.
You indeed are enjoyer of the comfort of true knowledge, and the fire that reduces to ash the ignorance (or false knowledge).

Word Division - Word-by-word meaning

pallavi
SrI nArada muni guru 1rAya kaNTi-
m(E) nATi tapamO guru rAya

O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru) sage (muni) SrI nArada!
May be as a result of penance (tapamO) performed earlier (E nATi) (literally some day) I beheld (kaNTimi) You (kaNTimE), O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru)!

caraNam
caraNam 1
manasAra kOriti guru rAya nEDu
kanulAra kanukoNTimi guru rAya (SrI)

I besought (kOriti) You whole-heartedly (manasAra), O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru)!
Today (nEdu) I beheld (kanukoNTimi) You to my heart’s content (kanulAra) (literally to the eyes’ content), O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru)!

caraNam 2
mI sEva dorikenu guru rAya bhava
pASamu tolagenu guru rAya (SrI)

The privilege of Your (mI) service (sEva) has been attained (dorikenu) by me, O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru)!
The bondage (pASamu) of Worldly Existence (bhava) has ceased (tolagenu), O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru)!

caraNam 3
nIvE 2su-jnAna sukhi guru rAya
nIvE(y)ajnAna2 Sikhi guru rAya (SrI)

You indeed (nIvE) are enjoyer of the comfort (sukhi) of true knowledge (su-jnAna), O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru)!
You indeed (nIvE) are the fire (Sikhi) that reduces to ash the ignorance (or false knowledge) (ajnAna) (nIvEyajnAna), O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru)!

caraNam 4
rAjillu vINe gala guru rAya tyAga-
rAjuni brOcina sad-guru rAya (SrI)

C4 O Respected (rAya) Preceptor (guru) having (gala) the shining (rAjillu) lute (vINe)!
O Respected (rAya) and Benevolent Preceptor (sad-guru) who protected (brOcina) this tyAgarAja!

Notes

Variations - (Pathanthara)
¹ - rAya – rAyA (all occurrences)

caraNa 1 is given as anupallavi in some books.

References
² – sujnAna – ajnAna – aka – vidyA - avidyA. Please refer to ‘Brahma Sutras’ by Swami Vireshwarananda – Pages 12 – 16. The complete version of Brahma Sutras by Swami Krishnananda - Download

Comments
¹ – rAya – This is a title for Kings of Andhra and Karnataka. It also means 'Lord', 'Master'. However, it is not clear whether SrI tyAgarAja uses this word as a form of respect or as an epithet to indicate that SrI nArada is 'Master' preceptor. It has translated as 'respected' here. Top

SrI nArada muni - rAga bhairavi