📜 Original Kannada Lyrics
ತನು ನಿನ್ನದು ಜೀವನ ನಿನ್ನದು
ಅನುದಿನದಲಿ ಬಾಹೊ ಸುಖದುಃಖ ನಿನ್ನದಯ್ಯ
ಸವಿನುಡಿ ವೇದ ಪುರಾಣ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಂಗಳಕಿವಿಗೊಟ್ಟು ಕೇಳುವ ಕಥೆ ನಿನ್ನದು
ನವಮೋಹನಾಂಗಿಯರ ರೂಪವನು ಕಣ್ಣಿಂದ ಎವೆಯಿಕ್ಕದೆ ನೋಡುವ ನೋಟ ನಿನ್ನದಯ್ಯ ||1||
ಒಡಗೂಡಿ ಗಂಧ ಕಸ್ತೂರಿ ಪರಿಮಳಂಗಳ ಬಿಡದೆ ಲೇಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಬುವುದು ನಿನ್ನದು
ಷಡ್ರಸದ ಅನ್ನಕ್ಕೆ ನಲಿದಾಡುವ ಜಿಹ್ವೆ ಕಡು ರುಚಿಗೊಂಡರಾ ರುಚಿ ನಿನ್ನದಯ್ಯ ||2||
ಮಾಯಾ ಪಾಶದ ಬಲೆಯೊಳಗೆ ಸಿಲುಕಿರುವ ಕಾಯ ಪಂಚೇಂದ್ರಿಯಂಗಳು ನಿನ್ನವು
ಕಾಯಜಪಿತ ಕಾಗಿನೆಲೆಯಾದಿ ಕೇಶವರಾಯ ನೀನಲ್ಲದೆ ನರರು ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರರೆ ||3||
ಕೃತಿ: ಸಂತ ಕನಕದಾಸರು
🔤 English Transliteration
Tanu ninnadu jeevana ninnadu
Anudinalali baaho sukhadukhha ninnadayya
Savinudhi Veda Purana shastrangala kivigottu keluva kathe ninnadu
Navamohana angiyara roopavanu kanninda eveyikkade noduva nota ninnadayya ||1||
Odagoodi gandha kasturi parimalangala bidade lepisikombuvudu ninnadu
Shadrasa annakke nalidaduva jihve kadu ruchigondara ruchi ninnadayya ||2||
Maya pashada baleyolage silukiruva kaya panchendriyagalu ninnavu
Kayajapita kagineleyadi Keshavaraya neenallade nararu swatantrare ||3||
Lyrics: Sant Kanakadasaru
🌸 English Meaning
Your body belongs to You, my Lord, and this entire life too is Yours.
Each day’s joys and sorrows—every rise and fall—are Yours alone, O Lord.
The stories we hear from sacred Vedas, Puranas, and scriptures—all belong to You.
Even the beauty of enchanting forms that the eyes long to behold is Yours and Yours alone. ||1||
The perfumes of sandal and musk we apply—these too are Yours.
The tongue that delights in the six tastes, craving flavors and pleasures—its longing is Yours. ||2||
This body caught in the net of Maya, and the five senses that bind it—these are also Yours.
O Keshava! Without You, humans are powerless; only by Your will do we act. ||3||
🪔 Reflection
Kanakadasa, the 16th-century saint-poet, often sang of the human ego dissolving before the vastness of the Divine. In this song, he gently reminds us that everything we call “mine”—the body, senses, pleasures, worries, even our impulses—are but instruments in the hands of the Lord. His message is not pessimistic; it is liberating. When one sees the world as divine play, burdens lighten and gratitude grows. The saint subtly asks: If every sense and every desire functions through the Lord’s power, why cling to the illusion of control? And another question lingers: What happens to our sorrow when we recognise that even it belongs to Him?
Kanakadasa’s life—spent in devotion despite social barriers—makes this teaching powerful. His surrender was not weakness but inner strength. To meditate on this song is to gently loosen the grip of possessiveness and invite the humility that leads to peace. One step at a time, it turns daily living into a quiet offering to the Lord.
🎵 YouTube Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzu9-L_AOEo&t=39s
Lyrics: Sant Kanakadasaru
Singer: Girish Nagesh Prabhu
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