Movie: Nenjil oru aalayam
Year of release: 1962
Director: C.V. Sridhar
Music: Viswanathan - Ramamurthy
Singer: P.B. Srinivas
Starcast: Kalyana Kumar, Devika, Muthu raman
mudindha kadhai thodarvadhillai
thodarntha kadhai mudivadhillai
aayiram vaasal idhayam adhil
aayiram ennangal udhayam
yaaro varuvaar yaaro iruppaar
varuvadhum povathum theriyaadhu
oruvar mattum kudiyirundhal
ondrirukka onru vandhaal
enge vazhkkai thodangum adhu
enge evvidam mudiyum
idhudhaan paadhai idhudhaan payanam
yenbadhu yaarukkum theriyaadhu
maaruvadhai purindhu kondaal
Translation of the song:
If all your thoughts become reality, there is no God!
If you keep thinking about what already happened, there will never be peace of mind!
A concluded story does not continue in God’s books!
A continued story does not end, in a man’s house!
A heart with thousand gates, in it rise a thousand thoughts
Someone comes, someone goes… their comings and goings never noticed
If just one inhabits inside, there is no suffering
While the one stays, if another comes in, there will be never be peace of mind
Where life begins, where and how it ends,
this is the path, this is the journey… no one knows
The paths keep changing and finally the journey ends
if the changes are understood, then one becomes sober
This is the translation (as near as it can be for me) of a famous tamil song “Ninaipathellam Nadanthu vittaal” from the movie “Nenjil oru Aalayam”.