Yava Mohana Muruli karayito

This one is a song written by one of the great writers in kannada literature, Gopala Krishna Adiga. It was adopted in a movie called “America America” which was on the lines of attraction towards America in modern youth. Even though at that time I did not understand the subject of the movie that well, until I myself was in that situation, the song was something which appealed to me even at a time when I could not appreciate the lyrics that well.

Here it goes

Yava mohana muruli karayito,
doora teerake ninnanu.
yava brundavanavu seLeyito
ninna mannina kannan

What was that music which took you away to the far banks
What flora attracted these eyes that were made of the local soil.

This was about the brain drain that happened at one point to lot of people in India, all trying to move to America, leaving their own soil. This talks about the unseen music and the unseen nature which seem to have taken the youth to the banks of a far sea.

vivasha vayitu prana
paravashavu ninnneee chetana
iruvudellava bittu
iradudureDage tudivudhe jeevana

The Life seem to have lost the consciousness, Your enthusiasm seem to have gone into others hands. Life seem to have become about chasing things which you do not have forgetting about the things we have

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Yava mohana muruli karayito,
doora teerake ninnanu.
yava brundavanavu seLeyito
ninna mannina kannanu [2]

huvu hasiga chandra chandana
bahu bandana chumabana
huvu hasiga chandra chandana
bahu bandana chumabana
bayake totada beli olage
tarana gaNa e vinghana

yava mohana muruli karayito
doora teerake ninnanu
yava brundavanavu seleyito
ninna mannina kannanu

vivasha vayitu prana
paravashavu ninnneee chetana
iruvudellava bittu
iradduraedage tudivudhe jeevana

yava mohana muruli karayito
doora teerake ninnanu
yava brundavanavu seleyito
ninna mannina kannanu