Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.1 · verse 3244 of the four thousand
Meaning
Hail, hail, hail! The hard curse that lay on living beings is gone. The tormenting hells are crushed; Yama has nothing left to do here. See, even the Kali age will perish! For we have seen the devotees of the ocean-hued Lord entering the earth in crowds, singing, dancing and roaming everywhere.
Word by word
- polika polika polika
- hail, hail, hail; may it flourish
- val uyirc cāpam
- the hard curse upon living beings
- naliyum narakamum nainta
- the tormenting hells are crushed
- namaṉukku
- for Yama, lord of death
- kaliyum keṭum
- even the Kali age will perish
- kaṭalvaṇṇaṉ pūtaṅkaḷ
- the devotees of the ocean-hued Lord
- āṭi uḻitarak kaṇṭōm
- we saw them dancing and roaming
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.2 · verse 3245 of the four thousand
Meaning
We have seen, we have seen, we have seen! We have seen what is sweet to the eyes. Come, all you who serve Him! Worship again and again, and shout for joy. The devotees of Madhava, who wears cool, lovely tulasi full of bees, are singing melodies, standing and dancing, spreading and wandering all over the earth.
Word by word
- kaṇṇukku iṉiyaṉa kaṇṭōm
- we saw what is sweet to the eyes
- toṇṭīr
- you who serve Him
- toḻutu toḻutu niṉṟu ārttum
- worshipping again and again, and shouting for joy
- vaṇṭu ār taṇ am tuḻāyāṉ
- He who wears cool, lovely tulasi full of bees
- mātavaṉ
- Madhava, Lord of Lakshmi
- paṇ tāṉ pāṭi
- singing melodies
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.3 · verse 3246 of the four thousand
Meaning
The shifting Kali age is leaving; the gods themselves come down; the great Krita age takes hold, and a flood of great joy swells. The devotees of my Lord, dark as a rain cloud, coloured like the ocean, have entered the earth so that all else scatters, and singing, they have taken their place everywhere.
Word by word
- tiriyum kaliyukam
- the shifting Kali age
- periya kitayukam paṟṟi
- the great Krita age taking hold
- pēriṉpa veḷḷam
- a flood of great joy
- kariya mukilvaṇṇaṉ
- dark as a rain cloud
- iriyap pukuntu
- entering so that all else scatters
- eṅkum iṭam koṇṭaṉavē
- have taken their place everywhere
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.4 · verse 3247 of the four thousand
Meaning
As if to pluck up and cast away every creed that had taken hold of the land, they have become the very own devotees of the Lord who rests on the broad ocean. Lying down, sitting, rising, singing song after song, walking, leaping and bending, they are acting out a drama.
Word by word
- iṭam koḷ camayattai
- the creeds that had taken ground
- eṭuttuk kaḷaivaṉa pōlē
- as if plucking them out
- taṭam kaṭal paḷḷip perumāṉ
- the Lord who rests on the broad ocean
- kiṭantum iruntum eḻuntum
- lying, sitting, rising
- naṭantum paṟantum kuṉittum
- walking, leaping, bending in dance
- nāṭakam ceykiṉṟaṉavē
- they act out a drama
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.5 · verse 3248 of the four thousand
Meaning
What is happening looks to my eyes like one thing only: in this world, by some wonder, the devotees of the Lord of Vaikuntha are settling everywhere. There is no doubt about it: if any of you here were born rakshasas or asuras, there is no way for you to survive. These devotees will put an end to such ones and turn the age around.
Word by word
- vaikuntaṉ pūtaṅkaḷē āy
- as the devotees of the Lord of Vaikuntha
- māyattiṉāl eṅkum maṉṉi
- by wonder settling everywhere
- aiyam oṉṟu illai
- there is no doubt
- acurar piṟantīr
- you who were born asuras
- uyyum vakai illai
- there is no way to survive
- ūḻi peyarttiṭum
- will turn the age around
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.6 · verse 3249 of the four thousand
Meaning
Disease that kills and devours life, enmity, hunger and every evil: to stand in this world and drive them all away, the people of the Lord of the discus have come. Singing sweetly, leaping and dancing, they have spread across the earth. Go, all you who would serve, worship them and be saved, keeping your minds straight and true.
Word by word
- koṉṟu uyir uṇṇum vicāti
- disease that kills and devours life
- pakai paci tīyaṉa
- enmity, hunger and evils
- kaṭivāṉ
- to drive away
- nēmip pirāṉ tamar
- the people of the Lord of the discus
- ñālam parantār
- have spread across the earth
- cintaiyaic cenniṟuttiyē
- keeping the mind straight and true
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.7 · verse 3250 of the four thousand
Meaning
The gods you hold firmly in your hearts can save you only by turning you, in the end, to Him; see, Markandeya stands witness. Keep no darkened, grudging mind. There is no God other than Kannan. Whatever offerings you make, make them to those gods knowing them as His own forms.
Word by word
- num uḷḷattuk koḷḷum teyvaṅkaḷ
- the gods you hold in your hearts
- maṟuttum avaṉōṭē
- in the end, only through Him
- mārkkaṇṭēyaṉum kariyē
- Markandeya is the witness
- kaṟutta maṉam
- a darkened, grudging mind
- kaṇṇaṉ allāl teyvam illai
- there is no God but Kannan
- avaṉ mūrtti
- His forms, His own body
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.8 · verse 3251 of the four thousand
Meaning
So that the offerings paid to them might be received, He set His own forms in every world to be gods; He Himself is the Lord of those gods. He bears Sri on His marked, sacred chest, and His devotees, singing songs, now fill the world without weariness. Go to them, worship, and be saved.
Word by word
- iṟukkum iṟai
- the offerings people pay
- taṉ mūrtti niṟuttiṉāṉ
- He set His own forms
- at teyva nāyakaṉ tāṉē
- He Himself is Lord of those gods
- maṟut tiru mārvaṉ
- He with the mark and Sri on His chest
- veṟuppu iṉṟi
- without weariness or aversion
- mēvit toḻutu uymmiṉ
- join them, worship and be saved
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.9 · verse 3252 of the four thousand
Meaning
Join them, worship and be saved, all of you! Holding on their tongues the pure Rig hymns of the Veda, never straying from the rule of true knowledge, with an abundance of flowers, incense, lamps, sandal paste and water, devotees and holy ones who gather to worship Achyuta now fill the world.
Word by word
- vētap puṉita irukkai
- the pure Rig hymns of the Veda
- accutaṉ taṉṉai
- Achyuta, the Lord who never lets go
- ñāṉaviti piḻaiyāmē
- never straying from the rule of knowledge
- pūvil pukaiyum viḷakkum
- flowers, incense and lamps
- cāntamum nīrum
- sandal paste and water
- pakavarum
- the holy ones
- mikkatu ulakē
- the world is full of them
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.10 · verse 3253 of the four thousand
Meaning
In every one of the many worlds, Kannan's sacred form abides; Shiva, Brahma and Indra first, and then the gathered hosts of gods, spread everywhere as part of it. O you who serve, if you can worship knowing this, there is no Kali age at all.
Word by word
- kaṇṇaṉ tirumūrtti
- Kannan's sacred form
- nakka pirāṉōṭu ayaṉum
- Shiva along with Brahma
- tokka amarar kuḻāṅkaḷ
- the gathered hosts of gods
- eṅkum parantaṉa
- spread everywhere
- okkat toḻa kiṟṟirākil
- if you can worship rightly, all together
- kaliyukam oṉṟum illaiyē
- there is no Kali age at all
Tiruvaymozhi 5.2.11 · verse 3254 of the four thousand
Meaning
He graces His devotees so that no trace of the Kali age touches them: Kannan, the wondrous Lord, whose form is full of radiant light. Kari Maran Sadagopan, Nammalwar of good southern Kurugur with its teeming fields, sang of Him a thousand verses of resounding fame. These ten among them will wash the mind clean of every stain.
Word by word
- kaliyukam oṉṟum iṉṟikkē
- with no trace of the Kali age
- maliyum cuṭar oḷi mūrtti
- form full of radiant light
- māyap pirāṉ
- the wondrous Lord
- kali vayal
- teeming, bustling fields
- kārimāṟaṉ caṭakōpaṉ
- Maran, son of Kari, Sadagopan
- uḷḷattai mācu aṟukkumē
- will wash the mind of its stain
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.