Vishnu

Dasana Madiko Enna

Purandara Dasa1484–1564 CE

ದಾಸನ ಮಾಡಿಕೊ ಎನ್ನ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ
ಸಾಸಿರ ನಾಮದ ವೆಂಕಟರಮಣ

ದುರುಬುದ್ಧಿಗಳನೆಲ್ಲ ಬಿಡಿಸೊ ನಿನ್ನ
ಕರುಣಕವಚವೆನ್ನ ಹರಣಕ್ಕೆ ತೊಡಿಸೊ
ಚರಣಸೇವೆ ಎನಗೆ ಕೊಡಿಸೊ ಅಭಯ
ಕರಪುಷ್ಪವೆನ್ನ ಶಿರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಡಿಸೊ

ದೃಢಭಕ್ತಿ ನಿನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇಡಿ ನಾ
ಅಡಿಗೆರಗುವೆನಯ್ಯ ಅನುದಿನ ಪಾಡಿ
ಕಡೆಗಣ್ಣಿಲೇಕೆನ್ನ ನೋಡಿ ಬಿಡುವೆ
ಕೊಡು ನಿನ್ನ ಧ್ಯಾನವ ಮನಶುಚಿ ಮಾಡಿ

ಮೊರೆಹೊಕ್ಕವರ ಕಾಯ್ವ ಬಿರುದು ಎನ್ನ
ಮರೆಯದೆ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ ಮಾಡಯ್ಯ ಪೊರೆದು
ದುರಿತಗಳೆಲ್ಲವ ತರಿದು ಸಿರಿ
ಪುರಂದರವಿಠ್ಠಲ ಎನ್ನನು ಪೊರೆದು

Meaning

Pallavi: Make me your servant, my Lord, Venkataramana of the thousand names.

1. Free me from every evil thought; put the armour of your compassion on my life. Grant me the service of your feet; place the flower of your fear-removing hand upon my head.

2. Begging firm devotion of you, I bow at your feet, Lord, singing every day. Why only glance at me from the corner of your eye and pass on? Give me meditation on you, and make my mind pure.

3. Your title is that you guard those who take refuge in you; do not forget me, protect me and keep me. Cut away all my sins, and keep me, Shri Purandara Vitthala.

About this bhajan

Purandara Dasa was a rich moneylender before he gave everything away and took to the road with a tambura. This song is the prayer of that new life. He does not ask for wealth, he has had wealth; he asks to be made a dasa, a servant, of Venkataramana of the Seven Hills. The three charanas climb from cleansing, to devotion, to refuge, and the last calls on the Lord’s own biruda, his pledged title, as the protector of all who come to him. M. S. Subbulakshmi’s recording made it known far beyond Karnataka.

Kannada Wikisource, ‘ದಾಸನ ಮಾಡಿಕೊ ಎನ್ನ’ (Purandara Dasa); checked against karnatik.com c4728; charana 2 line 3 follows karnatik’s reading ‘kaḍegaṇṇilēkenna’