241 మమ్ముఁ జూడనేల నీ మహిమే
చూతువుగాక
mammu jUDanEla nI mahimE chUtuvugAka
తెలుగులో చదవడానికి ఇక్కడ నొక్కండి.
Introduction
Annamacharya didn’t
write poetry.
He stood bare before reality.
He lived —
not as metaphor,
but as experience beyond illusion.
He didn’t chase
vision.
He was emptied enough
to let it enter.
And in doing so,
his simplest lines
carry an alchemical gravity.
They are not ideas.
They are states.
Irreversible.
Unarguable.
The change you
imagined
is bread baked in your own kitchen,
a judgment without reason,
a thought bound to fleeting time.
The art of lifting
that veil,
a union no mind can fathom—
tell me, who truly knows it?
Do not seek hollow
comfort;
what’s needed is still patience.
It is not a reshuffling of ideas,
nor the toil of restless effort.
It is the Divine—
an unknowable fever.
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అధ్యాత్మ
కీర్తన |
Philosophical Poem |
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రేకు:
340-1 సంపుటము: 4-232 |
Copper Plate: 340-1 Volume: 4-232 |
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మమ్ముఁ జూడనేల నీ మహిమే చూతువుగాక వుమ్మడిఁ బరుస మంటే దొక్కమాఁటే కాద ॥పల్లవి॥ పెక్కుమారులు నిన్నుఁ బేరుకొని జపించఁగ మక్కళించి నీకుఁ గొంత మహిమెక్కీనా వొక్కమారు జపించి నే నూరకుండినంతలోనే తక్కక నీమహిమలోఁ దరగి పోయీనా ॥మమ్ము॥ తగిలి నేఁ గాలమెల్ల ధ్యానము సేయఁగ నీకు జిగి నీమేనికిఁ గింత చేవ యెక్కీనా అగపడి యొకవేళ నటు దలఁచి మానితే చిగురై యంతటిలోనె చిక్కి వాడీనా ॥మమ్ము॥ యిన్ని యాల శ్రీవేంకటేశ మాయింటిలోననే వున్నతి నీవారమని వుంటేఁ జాలు సన్నము దొడ్డెంచనేల సరివలసీచోట అన్నియు నిత్యమింతే
యలమట కోపము ॥మమ్ము॥ |
mammu jUDanEla nI
mahimE chUtuvugAka vummaDi barusa maMTE
dokkamATE kAdA ॥pallavi॥ pekkumArulu ninnu
bErukoni japiMchaga makkaLiMchi nIku
goMta mahimekkInA vokkamAru japiMchi
nE nUrakuMDinaMtalOnE takkaka nImahimalO
daragi pOyInA ॥mammu॥ tagili nE gAlamella
dhyAnamu sEyaga nIku jigi nImEniki giMta
chEva yekkInA agapaDi yokavELa
naTu dalachi mAnitE chigurai yaMtaTilOne
chikki vADInA ॥mammu॥ yinni yAla
SrIvEMkaTESa mAyiMTilOnanE vunnati nIvAramani
vuMTE jAlu sannamu
doDDeMchanEla sarivalasIchOTa anniyu nityamiMtE
yalamaTa kOpamu ॥mammu॥ |
Details and Explanation:
Chorus
(Pallavi):
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Telugu Phrase |
Meaning |
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మమ్ముఁ జూడనేల |
Why look at us? |
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నీ మహిమే చూతువుగాక |
Let only your glory be seen |
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వుమ్మడిఁ బరుస మంటే దొక్కమాఁటే కాదా |
If the base metal (వుమ్మడి) touches the Philosopher’s Stone
(బరుస), once it gets transformed into Gold. Therefore,
one touch with YOU is sufficient |
Literal Meaning:
O Lord, what use is there in merely looking at
us?
All the glory we witness — is it not yours alone?
When a base metal touches the Philosopher’s Stone even once,
it is no longer the same — it becomes pure gold.
In the same way, a single touch of your grace,
like that transforming Stone,
is enough —
our hearts are forever changed,
and we become yours.
Commentary:
PART
1
This pallavi feels like a breath —
not a plea, not a prayer,
but a clear and quiet revelation.
“Why look at us?”
It isn’t a cry for attention.
It’s not asking the Lord to single us out.
If we are still hoping to be seen by Him,
that isn’t devotion —
it’s just another illusion of the mind.
“Let your glory behold itself.”
In your glory, there’s no space for anything separate.
When you shine within us,
everything else melts away into your knowing.
It is here that the second line brings in
a vital truth:
“Isn’t one touch of the Paras-mani enough”
This is the image of the philosopher’s
stone —
When a base metal, like lead or tin,
once touches the Paras-mani, the supreme essence —
it becomes gold.
Just once. No repetition needed.
One moment of that silent, unknowable faith is enough.
A single gaze with sharp inwardness
becomes a journey without limits.
PART
2
This painting by René Magritte is proof
that
great thinkers often think alike.
Annamacharya wrote his words centuries ago,
but when we look at Magritte’s recent painting,
it’s surprising to see how their thoughts are almost the same.
Les Bijoux Indiscrets (1963) by René Magritte — A
visual echo of Annamacharya’s Pallavi
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Pallavi – Core Idea |
Its Reflection in the Painting |
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"Why
look at us? Let your glory see itself. |
René
Magritte’s The Invisible Ornament (Les Bijoux
Indiscrets 1963) |
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Isn’t one
touch enough? (Just one divine contact transforms) |
A hand touches the
surface — yet a face is embedded within the hand. This is not physical
contact, but a symbol of inner transformation. The hand must be seen
as reaching toward the Divine. |
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Parasuvedi
— the Philosopher’s Stone signifies a spiritual touch |
Unlike external touch,
this one penetrates inward. The transformation is not seen but felt.
This is the tone of the Pallavi — subtle yet irreversible. |
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After the
touch, there is no return |
The face is absorbed
into the hand — the change happens from within. There is no going
back. The touch is alchemical. |
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Why look at
us? |
The eyes of the face
are closed — the change unfolds without external seeing. It is
not sensory. It is interior. |
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Why look at
us? Let your glory see itself. |
The Divine cannot be
grasped through sight. Only through inward absorption is it known. In
that state — You are the action, and You are the result. Hence,
"Let your glory see itself." |
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It is not
the act of touching, but the inner stillness that transforms |
The painting is silent
— yet that silence conveys the most powerful transition. This is not
action-based change. It is presence-based. |
First Stanza:
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Phrase |
Meaning Telugu |
Meaning in English |
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పెక్కుమారులు
నిన్నుఁ బేరుకొని జపించఁగ |
పెక్కు + మారు = అనేక
మార్లు; బేరుకొని
జపించఁగ = నీ పేరు ఎలుగెత్తి జపించగా |
Those who chant your
name many times |
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మక్కళించి నీకుఁ
గొంత మహిమెక్కీనా |
మక్కళించి = ఎగదోసిన; నీకుఁ గొంత మహిమెక్కీనా = నీ మహిమ పెరిగిపోతుందా? (పెరగదు) |
Will that increase
your glory? (not) |
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ఒక్కమారు జపించి
నే నూరకుండినంతలోనే |
నే = నేను; ఒక్కమారు జపించి = ఒకసారి నీ పేరు తలచి; నూరకుండినంతలోనే = ఊరకుండిపోతే
అంతలోనే. |
If I take your name
only once and remain quiet |
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తక్కక నీమహిమలోఁ
దరగి పోయీనా |
తక్కక = తప్పక; నీమహిమలోఁ దరగి పోయీనా = నీ మహిమ తగ్గి పోదు. |
Does your glory get
dwindled? (not) |
Literal Meaning:
If your name
is chanted
again and again — praised, repeated, glorified —
does your glory increase? (It doesn’t.)
And if I
utter it just once
and then fall silent,
does your glory diminish because of that? (Certainly not.)
Commentary:
That alone is true awareness.
Everything else is mere ritual — empty and futile.
Second
Stanza:
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పాదం (Phrase) |
Meaning |
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తగిలి నేఁ
గాలమెల్ల ధ్యానము సేయఁగ నీకు |
As I, having touched you, meditate upon you in every breath |
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జిగి
నీమేనికిఁ గింత చేవ యెక్కీనా |
To your radiant, resplendent form, |
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అగపడి
యొకవేళ నటు దలఁచి మానితే |
perchance, my mind gets diverted to something else, I choose not to meditate upon you |
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చిగురై
యంతటిలోనె చిక్కి వాడీనా |
Will that Meditation ceases and wither early if I am entangled in
harmful ways? (Certainly not.) |
Literal Meaning:
When I keep meditating on you
with every breath that stirs and inspires me —
to your radiant, blazing presence,
can this small effort of mine offer any help? (Certainly not.)
And even if,
at some point, my mind turns away,
gets entangled elsewhere and I stop the meditation —
if I’m caught in wrong actions,
will that early sprout of meditation wither away? (It won’t.)
Commentary:
Truth stands —
not leaning on our fragile hands.
It needs no witness,
no chanting lips to stay alive.
It is we who choose —
to turn toward it, or away.
But Truth remains, untouched.
Annamacharya writes not to instruct,
but to unveil —
"a stillness, a beauty,
that lives" beyond the cages of our thought.
Man, trapped in rituals and noise,
thinks he helps the world —
but only deepens the illusion.
To meditate —
is not to add one more act,
but to stop pretending.
To act without falseness.
That alone is true.
All else —
is slow decay in disguise.
Third Stanza:
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పాదం
(Phrase) |
Meaning
(English) |
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ఇన్ని
యాల శ్రీవేంకటేశ మాయింటిలోననే |
What say much.
Lord Sri Venkateshawara while you are
hidden in our body |
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ఉన్నతి
నీవారమని వుంటేఁ జాలు |
just claim to
be your direct subjects, That is the highest position for the man. |
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సన్నము
దొడ్డెంచనేల సరివలసీచోట |
In your divine
presence there nothing to prove something as Big, denounce something else as
inadequate, |
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అన్నియు
నిత్యమింతే యలమట కోపము |
This Sorrow,
this Grief, this Anger They shall
exercise people for ever. |
Literal Meaning:
What is there much to claim?
O Lord Venkatesha,
while you remain hidden within this very body,
to simply submit and say we are yours
is itself the highest state for man.
In your divine presence
there is no need to claim one’s greatness,
nor to condemn one’s smallness—
all such differences do not exist
and dissolve within you.
This sorrow, this grief, this anger—
they shall forever trouble,
forever test the hearts of men.
Commentary:
Silent
Surrender
Man’s
true purpose is only one—
to unveil the Truth
already hidden within himself.
There
is no need to weigh
what is greater, what is lesser;
such measures arise
only in the mind’s world of relativity.
In
the presence of the Infinite
no such differences remain—
they dissolve,
melting into His boundlessness.
Yet
still,
sorrow, grief, and anger
keep returning,
even when the Lord abides within.
For
man cannot,
by his own effort,
surpass himself.
And
so,
silent surrender
is his only refuge.
SYNOPSIS of the POEM
One touch of the
Lord is enough—
like base metal meeting the philosopher’s stone,
once transformed, there is no return.
Why should He see us?
It is His glory alone that sees.
Chanting His
name a thousand times
does not add to His greatness;
uttering it once and staying silent
does not diminish it.
It is not the chant that matters,
but the awareness of Him within.
In His presence,
all measures vanish—
no need to claim greatness,
no need to condemn smallness.
Only silent surrender abides.
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