KANNADASAN[Kavalai Illatha Manithan] pirakkumbodhum alugindraai…

Movie: Kavalai Illatha Manithan
Poet: kannadasan
Singer: Chandrababu
Music Directors: M.S Viswanathan & Ramamoorthy
Song Sequence: (1)-(1)-(2)-(2)-(1)-(3)-(3)-(4)-(1)-(5)-(5)-(6)-(6)-(1)-(2)

(1)pirakkumbodhum alugindraai, 
irakkumbodhum alugindraai,

When you are born, you cry,
When there is death, you cry,

(2)orunaalenum kavalai illaamal,
sirikka marandhaai maanidane,

why do humans forget to be happy, without worrying even for one day?

(3)iravin kanneer panithuli enbaar, 
mugilin kanneer malai ena solvaar,

human’s have become so pessimistic that they say the tears of the night are the dew droplets,
and the tears of the clouds are the rain drops ( Human’s look at everything negatively)

(4)iyarkai aludhaal ulagam selikkum, 
manidhan aludhaal iyarkkai sirikkum,

if  nature weeps (rains), this world prospers ( fostering growth etc),
when human’s cry, nature laughs,

(5)annaiyin kaiyil vaaluvadhu inbam, 
kanniyin kaiyil saaivadhu inbam,

Living in the hands of mother is pleasure,
leaning on a women’s shoulder(wife) is also pleasure,

(6)thannai arindhaal unmaiyil inbum, 
thannalam marandhaal perumperinbam,

But when one realises( understands) himself, that is  ”true pleasure”,
and when one forgets his selfishness, that is magnanimous pleasure