Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.1 · verse 2923 of the four thousand
Meaning
O life that lives within this body, well done indeed! Because of you, the Lord of those in heaven, Madhusudana, my Lord, has come; and He and I have mingled wholly into one within Him, like honey, milk, ghee, sugarcane juice and nectar mixed together.
Word by word
- ūṉil vāḻ uyirē
- O life that lives in this body, my soul
- nallai pō
- well done indeed
- vāṉ uḷār perumāṉ
- Lord of those who dwell in heaven
- matucūtaṉ
- Madhusudana, slayer of Madhu
- taṉṉuḷḷē kalantoḻintōm
- we have mingled wholly within Him
- tēṉum pālum neyyum kaṉṉalum amutum
- honey, milk, ghee, sugarcane juice and nectar
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.2 · verse 2924 of the four thousand
Meaning
O great Wonder, who has none equal to You and none greater! You are the life within all things. You became for me the mother who bore me and the father too, and You made me know what I did not know. O my Father, all that You have done for me, I, Your servant, cannot even begin to know.
Word by word
- ottār mikkārai ilaiyāya
- who has none equal and none greater
- mā māya
- O great Wonder
- ep poruṭkum uyir āy
- being the life of all things
- at tāy āy tantai āy
- becoming that mother and father
- aṟiyātaṉa aṟivittu
- making me know what I did not know
- aṭiyēṉ aṟiyēṉē
- I, Your servant, cannot know
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.3 · verse 2925 of the four thousand
Meaning
When I knew nothing at all, You made me love service to You, though You had kept me, Your servant, in this great maya of the body, which knows nothing. Once You became a little dwarf who seemed to know nothing, asked Mahabali for three steps of land, and tricked him while he did not see it. In the same way You have tricked me, slipping in and mingling with my very soul.
Word by word
- aṟiyāk kālattuḷḷē
- at a time when I knew nothing
- aṭimaikkaṇ aṉpu ceyvittu
- making me love service to You
- aṟiyā mā māyattu
- in the great maya that knows nothing, this body of matter
- aṟiyāmaik kuṟaḷ āy
- becoming a dwarf who seemed to know nothing
- māvali mūvaṭi
- three steps of land from Mahabali
- vañcittāy
- You tricked
- eṉatu āviyuḷ kalantē
- mingling with my very soul
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.4 · verse 2926 of the four thousand
Meaning
In return for the great and good help of mingling with my soul, I gave You my soul. Can there be any taking it back now? Yet You are the soul of my soul, O my Father who swallowed the seven worlds. Whose is my soul? Who am I? It was You who gave it, and You have taken it back and made it Your own.
Word by word
- peru nal utavik kaimmāṟu
- a return for that great, good help
- eṉatu āvi tantoḻintēṉ
- I have given away my soul
- iṉi mīḷvatu eṉpatu uṇṭē
- can there be any taking it back?
- eṉatu āvi āviyum nī
- You are the soul of my soul
- poḻil ēḻum uṇṭa entāy
- my Father who swallowed the seven worlds
- tanta nī koṇṭākkiṉaiyē
- You who gave it have taken it as Your own
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.5 · verse 2927 of the four thousand
Meaning
O my Father, whom no one, from now on, can reach and lift up by their own knowledge! O bliss of liberation for those who melt in love! O my nectar, never churned from the sea! O root of life for me, who am alone! Becoming a boar, You held all seven worlds on the tip of a single tusk. I have reached Your feet.
Word by word
- ñāṉaṅkaḷāl eṭukkal eḻāta
- not to be raised up or reached by knowledge alone
- kaṉivār vīṭṭu iṉpamē
- O bliss of liberation for those who melt in love
- kaṭal paṭā amutē
- O nectar not churned from the sea
- taṉiyēṉ vāḻ mutalē
- O root of life for me, who am alone
- ēṉam oṉṟāy
- becoming a boar, Varaha
- nuṉi ār kōṭṭil vaittāy
- You held them on the tip of Your tusk
- nuṉa pātam cērntēṉē
- I have reached Your feet
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.6 · verse 2928 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is a deadly poison to the evil deeds of those who come to Him; He is firm wisdom; He is the Light who never leaves the hearts of those wholly given to Him, and never, even when they falter, lets their lives slip away to another refuge. He cut off the nose of the rakshasi. Him I, His servant, have reached, first of all, before anything else.
Word by word
- cērntār tīviṉaikaṭku
- to the evil deeds of those who come to Him
- aru nañcai
- a deadly poison
- tiṇ matiyai
- firm wisdom
- tīrntār tam maṉattup piriyātu
- never leaving the hearts of those wholly His
- pukal koṭāc cuṭarai
- the Light who gives them no other refuge
- arakkiyai mūkku
- the rakshasi's nose, Surpanakha's
- mutal muṉṉamē
- first of all, before all else
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.7 · verse 2929 of the four thousand
Meaning
O ripe sweetness of the strings of the fine yazh, played as the ancient books of music teach! O Supreme One, ever dwelt on by the many good ones! O Pure One! O sugarcane, O nectar, O dark rain-cloud, my Kanna! See, I have nothing but You. Keep me in Your care, as Your own.
Word by word
- nal yāḻ
- the fine yazh, the ancient Tamil harp
- narampiṉ mutir cuvaiyē
- O ripe sweetness of its strings
- pal nalār payilum paraṉē
- O Supreme One, dwelt on by many good souls
- pavittiraṉē
- O Pure One
- kār mukilē
- O dark rain-cloud
- niṉ alāl ilēṉkāṇ
- see, I have none but You
- eṉṉai nī kuṟikkoḷḷē
- keep me in Your care as Your own
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.8 · verse 2930 of the four thousand
Meaning
What others win by penance done for countless ages with fixed and focused knowledge, I have won by a simple stratagem, in this very birth, within a few days. My heart has taken the path that follows the Lord who steals the butter and milk from the hanging pots and eats them in hiding, and so the sorrow of birth has been driven away.
Word by word
- kuṟikkoḷ ñāṉaṅkaḷāl
- with fixed, focused knowledge
- eṉai ūḻi cey tavamum
- penance done for countless ages
- kiṟikkoṇṭu
- by a simple stratagem
- uṟikkoṇṭa veṇṇey pāl
- the butter and milk in the hanging pots
- oḷittu uṇṇum ammāṉ
- the Lord who eats them in hiding
- neṟikkoṇṭa neñcaṉāy
- with a heart that follows His path
- piṟavit tuyar kaṭintē
- driving away the sorrow of birth
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.9 · verse 2931 of the four thousand
Meaning
Kannan, who wears the fragrant, cool, beautiful tulasi, Lord of the immortals, the Supreme One beyond earth and heaven, the Pure One: in His glories I immersed myself, plunged, dove and bathed, so that the thick tangle of my ills was destroyed. I, His servant, drank them in with full mouth and rejoiced.
Word by word
- kaṭi vār taṇ am tuḻāy
- the fragrant, cool, beautiful tulasi
- viṇṇavar perumāṉ
- Lord of the immortals
- paṭi vāṉam iṟanta paramaṉ
- the Supreme One beyond earth and heaven
- ceṭi ār nōykaḷ keṭa
- so that the thicket of ills perished
- paṭintu kuṭaintu āṭi
- immersing, diving and bathing
- vāymaṭuttup paruki
- drinking with full mouth
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.10 · verse 2932 of the four thousand
Meaning
When will the day come when, free of passing joy and anguish, free of birth, disease, old age and death, shining with full radiance, I join the throngs of devotees of the wondrous Lord who holds the bright discus and the conch and protects the rain-giving sky and this earth?
Word by word
- kaḷippum kavarvum aṟṟu
- free of passing joy and anguish
- piṟappup piṇi mūppu iṟappu aṟṟu
- free of birth, disease, old age and death
- oḷikkoṇṭa cōtiyumāy
- shining with full radiance
- uṭaṉkūṭuvatu eṉṟu kolō
- when will I join them?
- tuḷikkiṉṟa vāṉ
- the rain-giving sky
- aṭiyārkaḷ kuḻāṅkaḷaiyē
- the throngs of His devotees
Tiruvaymozhi 2.3.11 · verse 2933 of the four thousand
Meaning
Sathakopan of southern Kurugur, a town of great gatherings, came to know and sang of the Lord who, in anger, destroyed the great rakshasa and all his teeming clan. Of the thousand verses sung for gatherings of devotees, sing these ten together, O devotees, and gather in throngs and dance!
Word by word
- kuḻām koḷ pēr arakkaṉ
- the great rakshasa with his teeming hosts, Ravana
- kulam vīya muṉintavaṉai
- who in anger destroyed his clan
- teṉ kurukūrc caṭakōpaṉ
- Sathakopan of southern Kurugur, Nammalwar
- terintu uraitta
- who came to know and sang
- uṭaṉ pāṭi
- singing together
- uṭaṉkūṭiniṉṟu āṭumiṉē
- gather together and dance
Verse text: the word-separated e-text of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham by Project Madurai, checked verse by verse against its second edition. Meanings are simple renderings in the light of the acharyas' commentaries, written for this site, and are awaiting a scholar's review.