Kagga 247
D. V. Gundappa · 1887–1975 · from the Kannada original
Transliteration
manadinda manake pArvudu bALinuriya kiDimaneyinda manegaleva gALi hogeyantemanujara parasparOdrEka jagada vilAsamanave parmAdbhutavo – MANKUTIMMA
Interpretation
The mind of a man is probably His most evolved & sophisticated creation.
The complex actions that a human mind is capable of exhibiting is almost miraculous in nature.
Every human mind is unique in terms of behavior; yet it influences & is in turn influenced by every other human mind that it comes in contact with…
Mankutimma, it is this linkage that an individual human mind has with several others that it comes into contact with that makes it such a dynamic & wondrous creation. Imagine if the mind was not capable of either influencing or being influenced…wouldn’t the Universe exist in true entropy then? It is because the Creator has made the behaviour of human mind behave like wind carrying smoke from one home to several others…thereby imbibing & transmitting emotions, that makes it His most wonderful creation.
Did this poetry & its translation speak to you?