Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.1 · verse 3365 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is poverty and wealth, hell and heaven; He is the enemy that conquers and the friend; He is poison and nectar. He is the Lord who spreads out as all these many kinds of things, and He rules me. I have seen Him in Thiruvinnagar, the town whose families abound in wealth.
Word by word
- nalkuravum celvum
- poverty and wealth
- narakum cuvarkkamum
- hell and heaven
- viṭamum amutamum
- poison and nectar
- palvakaiyum paranta
- spread out as all the many kinds
- eṉṉai āḷvāṉai
- He who rules me
- tiruviṇṇakark
- Thiruvinnagar, the shrine of Oppiliappan
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.2 · verse 3366 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is the joy and sorrow that we feel, our confusion and our clarity; He is punishment and gentleness, fire and shade. He is the Lord whom no one can fully grasp, and He rules me. His town is Thiruvinnagar, that good city ringed by waters with clear waves.
Word by word
- kaṇṭa iṉpam tuṉpam
- the joy and sorrow we experience
- kalakkaṅkaḷum tēṟṟamum
- confusion and clarity
- taṇṭamum taṇmaiyum
- punishment and gentleness
- taḻalum niḻalum
- fire and shade
- kaṇṭukōṭaṟku ariya
- hard to grasp fully
- teṇ tiraip puṉal cūḻ
- ringed by waters with clear waves
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.3 · verse 3367 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is cities and countries, knowledge and ignorance; He is the matchless light that surrounds us and the darkness; He is the earth and the sky. He is the Lord who has come to dwell in Thiruvinnagar, ringed by mansions with lofty tops. Apart from His shining glory, there is no merit for anyone.
Word by word
- nakaramum nāṭukaḷum
- cities and countries
- ñāṉamum mūṭamum
- knowledge and ignorance
- nikar il cūḻ cuṭar
- the matchless surrounding light
- cikara māṭaṅkaḷ cūḻ
- surrounded by mansions with lofty tops
- pukar koḷ kīrtti
- His shining glory
- puṇṇiyamē
- merit, the good that saves
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.4 · verse 3368 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is merit and sin, union and separation; He is thought and forgetting, being and non-being; and He is also other than all these. He is the Lord who has come to dwell in Thiruvinnagar, ringed by strong mansions: Krishna. Look for yourselves at His sweet grace. Is there any falsehood in what I say?
Word by word
- puṇṇiyam pāvam
- merit and sin
- puṇarcci pirivu
- union and separation
- eṇṇam āy maṟappu āy
- being thought and forgetting
- uṇmai āy iṉmai āy
- being existence and non-existence
- allaṉ āy
- and also not being these
- kaṇṇaṉ iṉ aruḷē
- the sweet grace of Krishna
- kaitavamē?
- is it a lie?
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.5 · verse 3369 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is deceit and honesty, black and white; He is truth and falsehood, youth and old age, the new and the old. He is the Lord who has come to dwell in Thiruvinnagar, ringed by strong, well-built walls. See: the three worlds, with all their great gods, are a grove that He has planted.
Word by word
- kaitavam cemmai
- deceit and honesty
- karumai veḷumaiyum
- black and white
- mey poy
- truth and falsehood
- iḷamai mutumai
- youth and old age
- peyta kāvu kaṇṭīr
- see, a grove He has planted
- perum tēvu uṭai mūvulakē
- the three worlds with their great gods
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.6 · verse 3370 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is the three worlds, and He is also other than them; He is delight and anger; He is Lakshmi who lives in the lotus, and her elder sister, misfortune; He is fame and blame. The Lord who has come to dwell in Thiruvinnagar, where the gods gather to worship, the supreme Light, lives in the mind of sinful me.
Word by word
- ukappu āy muṉivu āy
- being delight and anger
- pūvil vāḻ makaḷ
- the lady who lives in the lotus, Lakshmi
- tavvai
- her elder sister, the goddess of misfortune
- pukaḻ āy paḻi āy
- being fame and blame
- pāviyēṉ maṉattē
- in the mind of me, a sinner
- parañcuṭarē
- the supreme Light
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.7 · verse 3371 of the four thousand
Meaning
He has a body of supreme light, and He is also the bodies crusted with grime; He hides and He appears, He stands firm and He plays His tricks. He is the Lord who has come to dwell in Thiruvinnagar, where the gods of heaven bow their heads. Apart from His feet that grant every boon, there is no firm refuge for anyone.
Word by word
- param cuṭar uṭampu
- a body of supreme light
- aḻukkup patitta uṭampu
- a body crusted with grime
- karantum tōṉṟiyum
- hiding and appearing
- ciraṅkaḷāl vaṇaṅkum
- bow with their heads
- varam koḷ pātam
- feet that grant boons
- vaṉ caraṇē
- firm refuge
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.8 · verse 3372 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is the firm refuge of the gods and fierce death to the asuras. He keeps the world under the shade of His feet, and also keeps it outside. He is the Lord who has come to dwell in Thiruvinnagar as the refuge of the southern land. He is my refuge, my Krishna, my Father who rules me.
Word by word
- vaṉ caraṇ curarkku
- a firm refuge to the gods
- acurarkku vem kūṟṟamum
- fierce death to the asuras
- taṉ caraṇ niḻaṟkīḻ
- under the shade of His feet
- teṉ caraṇ ticaikkut
- the refuge of the southern quarter
- eṉ caraṇ
- my refuge
- eṉṉai āḷuṭai eṉ appaṉē
- my Father who rules me
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.9 · verse 3373 of the four thousand
Meaning
My Father became for me my companion and the mother who bore me. He is the Father of gold, the Father of gems, the Father of pearls, and that dear Father too. The Father who has come to dwell in Thiruvinnagar, ringed by gleaming golden walls, the Father who has no equal, has given me the shade of His feet.
Word by word
- ikuḷ āy
- becoming my companion
- eṉṉaip peṟṟavaḷ āy
- becoming the mother who bore me
- poṉ appaṉ maṇi appaṉ muttu appaṉ
- Father of gold, of gems, of pearls: His names here
- miṉṉap poṉ matiḷ cūḻ
- ringed by gleaming golden walls
- taṉ oppār il appaṉ
- the Father without equal, Oppiliappan
- tāḷ niḻalē
- the shade of His feet
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.10 · verse 3374 of the four thousand
Meaning
He is shade and sunshine, smallness and greatness, shortness and length; He is all things that move and all that stand still, and everything else; and He is also other than them all. He is the Lord who abides in Thiruvinnagar, where bees hum with lisping voices. See: apart from His feet, we have no other protector.
Word by word
- niḻal veyyil
- shade and sunshine
- cuḻalvaṉa niṟpaṉa
- things that move and things that stand
- avai allaṉum āy
- and being other than them
- maḻalai vāy vaṇṭu
- bees with lisping mouths
- kaḷaikaṇ ilam
- we have no other protector
- kāṇmiṉkaḷē
- see for yourselves
Tiruvaymozhi 6.3.11 · verse 3375 of the four thousand
Meaning
'See, people of the world!' So He seemed to say as He raised His pair of feet before their very eyes and measured the worlds. On Him Satakopan of Kurugur, Nammalwar, spoke a thousand verses, firm as a solemn oath. Those who can recite these ten on Thiruvinnagar will, without fail, be honoured forever as elders even by the gods of heaven.
Word by word
- kāṇmiṉkaḷ ulakīr
- see, O people of the world
- kaṇmukappē nimirnta
- rising up before their eyes
- tāḷ iṇaiyaṉ
- He of the pair of feet
- āṇai āyirattut
- of the thousand, firm as an oath
- kōṇai iṉṟi
- without fail, without crookedness
- kuravarkaḷē
- elders, revered teachers
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.