Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.1 · verse 2945 of the four thousand
Meaning
My Lord, with all the love He has for His beautiful abode, has come and joined my soul. His are the beautiful garland, the crown that sits there, the conch, the discus, the sacred thread and the necklace. His wide eyes are red lotus pools, His lips a ripe red fruit, a red lotus; His feet are red lotuses, and His sacred body is red gold.
Word by word
- am tāmattu aṉpu ceytu
- with the love He has for His beautiful abode
- eṉ āvi cēr ammāṉukku
- for my Lord who joined my soul
- vāḻ muṭi
- the crown that sits there
- nūl āram
- the sacred thread and the necklace
- centāmaraittaṭam kaṇ
- wide eyes like pools of red lotus
- cempoṉ tiru uṭampē
- His sacred body of red gold
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.2 · verse 2946 of the four thousand
Meaning
His sacred body is a great radiance; His eyes are red lotuses, His hands lotuses. His chest is the home of Sri; His navel is the home of Brahma; and Hara too has a place on one side of my Father's body. Oh! Yet with me He has mingled, leaving not a single place apart!
Word by word
- vāṉ cuṭar
- a great radiance
- tiru iṭamē mārvam
- His chest is the home of Sri, Lakshmi
- ayaṉ iṭamē koppūḻ
- His navel is the home of Brahma
- oruvu iṭamum
- a place on one side
- araṉē
- Hara, Shiva
- eṉṉuḷ kalantāṉukkē
- for Him who mingled within me
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.3 · verse 2947 of the four thousand
Meaning
He has mingled within me: that shining, radiant mountain, whose lips are a ripe red fruit, a red lotus, and whose eyes, feet and hands are lotuses. All the seven enduring worlds are within His belly. There is nothing at all that is not mingled within Him.
Word by word
- eṉṉuḷ kalantavaṉ
- He who mingled within me
- miṉṉum cuṭar malaikku
- for that shining, radiant mountain
- kaṇ pātam kai kamalam
- eyes, feet and hands are lotuses
- vayiṟṟiṉ uḷa
- are within His belly
- taṉṉuḷ kalavātatu
- anything not mingled within Him
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.4 · verse 2948 of the four thousand
Meaning
He who is all things is like a hill of emerald; His eyes, feet and hands are lotuses that have bloomed this very moment. At every moment, every day, month and year, age after age, He is fresh from moment to moment: my nectar that never satisfies.
Word by word
- ep poruḷum tāṉ āy
- being all things Himself
- marakatak kuṉṟam okkum
- like a hill of emerald
- appoḻutait tāmaraippū
- lotuses bloomed at that very moment
- nāḷ tiṅkaḷ āṇṭu ūḻi
- day, month, year and age
- appoḻutaikku appoḻutu
- fresh from moment to moment
- ārā amutamē
- nectar that never satisfies
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.5 · verse 2949 of the four thousand
Meaning
My Lord Kannan, like a dark cloud heavy with rain, has mingled within my lowly soul as nectar that never satisfies. His lips are like red coral; His eyes, feet and hands are lotuses; and He wears a great necklace, a tall crown, a waist-cord and many more jewels besides.
Word by word
- ārā amutamāy
- as nectar that never satisfies
- al āviyuḷ kalanta
- mingled within my lowly soul
- kār ār karumukil pōl
- like a dark cloud heavy with rain
- vāy cempavaḷam
- lips of red coral
- pēr āram nīḷ muṭi nāṇ
- great necklace, tall crown, waist-cord
- iḻai palavē
- many jewels
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.6 · verse 2950 of the four thousand
Meaning
Many, many are His ornaments; many, many His names; many, many His radiant forms; His qualities are countless. Many, many are the joys of seeing, tasting, hearing, touching and smelling Him; and many, many are the ways of knowing Him. All this is His, the Lord on the serpent bed!
Word by word
- palapalavē āparaṇam
- many, many are His ornaments
- pērum palapalavē
- many, many are His names
- cōti vaṭivu
- radiant forms
- paṇpu eṇṇil
- His qualities, if counted
- kaṇṭu uṇṭu kēṭṭu uṟṟu mōntu
- seeing, tasting, hearing, touching, smelling
- pāmpu aṇai mēlāṟkēyō
- for Him on the serpent bed
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.7 · verse 2951 of the four thousand
Meaning
He who lay down on the serpent bed in the Milk Ocean; He who killed the seven bulls together for Pinnai, whose shoulders are smooth as bamboo; He who shot through the seven marā trees in the grove thick with honey: He is the beautiful warrior-bull with the golden crown, wreathed in cool tulasi woven with flowers.
Word by word
- pāṟkaṭaluḷ paḷḷi amarntatuvum
- lying down in the Milk Ocean
- kāmpu aṇai tōḷ piṉṉaikku
- for Pinnai, whose shoulders are like bamboo
- ēṟu uṭaṉ ēḻ ceṟṟatuvum
- killing the seven bulls together
- marāmaram ēḻ eytatuvum
- shooting through the seven marā trees
- poṉ muṭi am pōr ēṟē
- the beautiful warrior-bull with the golden crown
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.8 · verse 2952 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is the beautiful warrior-bull with the golden crown, my Lord with four mighty shoulders, who has no end and wears a cool tulasi garland. He came and mingled within me and did not let me come to my end. I can find no end to the words for Him. What am I to say? You tell me!
Word by word
- nāl taṭam tōḷ
- four mighty shoulders
- taṉ muṭivu oṉṟu illāta
- who Himself has no end
- taṇ tuḻāy mālaiyaṉai
- He who wears a cool tulasi garland
- eṉ muṭivu kāṇātē
- not letting me come to my end
- colmuṭivu kāṇēṉ
- I find no end to the words
- collīrē
- you tell me
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.9 · verse 2953 of the four thousand
Meaning
Tell me, how can I speak of my Lord, the life of my life, my radiant dark sapphire of boundless glory? He is the good nectar; He is liberation, so hard to gain; He is like the fragrance of a petalled flower; He is not male, nor is He female.
Word by word
- eṉ āvi āvitaṉai
- the life of my life
- ellai il cīr
- boundless glory
- karumāṇikkac cuṭarai
- the radiant dark sapphire
- peṟaṟku ariya vīṭum āy
- being liberation, so hard to gain
- alli malar virai ottu
- like the fragrance of a petalled flower
- āṇ allaṉ peṇ alaṉē
- not male, nor female
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.10 · verse 2954 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is not male, He is not female, nor is He that which is neither. He cannot be seen; He is not simply 'there', and yet He is not 'not there'. When His devotees long for Him, He takes the very form they long for; and He is also beyond that form. To speak of our Lord is a task full of great difficulty.
Word by word
- allā aliyum allaṉ
- nor that which is neither
- kāṇalum ākāṉ
- He cannot be seen
- uḷaṉ allaṉ illai allaṉ
- He is not 'is', nor is He 'is not'
- pēṇuṅkāl pēṇum uru ākum
- when longed for, He takes the form longed for
- kōṇai peritu uṭaittu
- it is full of great difficulty
- em pemmāṉaik kūṟutalē
- to speak of our Lord
Tiruvaymozhi 2.5.11 · verse 2955 of the four thousand
Meaning
Sathakopan of Kurugur, delighting in speaking of the Lord who danced with the pots, of whom no telling is ever enough, sang an antadi of a thousand verses. If there are any who can recite these ten among them, they will reach Vaikuntham.
Word by word
- kūṟutal oṉṟu ārāk
- of whom no telling is ever enough
- kuṭak kūtta ammāṉai
- the Lord who danced the pot-dance
- kūṟutalē mēvi
- delighting in speaking of Him
- antāti
- antadi: each verse begins with the last word of the one before
- kūṭuvar vaikuntamē
- they will reach Vaikuntham
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.