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Chapter 1 – The Praise of God / Katavul Vaazhththu

Couplets / kuratpaakal

  1. A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains;
    The ‘Primal Deity’ is first through all the world’s domains

Explanation: As the letter A is the first of all letters, so the eternal God is first in the world

Akara Mudhala Ezhuththellaam AadhiPakavan Mudhatre Ulaku

Transliteration : Akara Mudhala Ezhuththellaam AadhiPakavan Mudhatre Ulaku

  1. No fruit have men of all their studied lore,
    Save they the ‘Purely Wise One’s’ feet adore

Explanation: What Profit have those derived from learning, who worship not the good feet of Him who is possessed of pure knowledge?

 Transliteration : Katradhanaal Aaya Payanenkol VaalarivanNatraal Thozhaaar Enin

  1. His feet, ‘Who o’er the full-blown flower hath past,’ who gain
    In bliss long time shall dwell above this earthly plain

Explanation: They who are united to the glorious feet of Him who passes swiftly over the flower of the mind, shall flourish long above all worlds

Transileration: Malarmisai Ekinaan Maanati SerndhaarNilamisai Neetuvaazh Vaar

  1. His foot, ‘Whom want affects not, irks not grief,’ who gain
    Shall not, through every time, of any woes complain

Explanation: To those who meditate the feet of Him who is void of desire or aversion, evil shall never come

Transliteration: Ventudhal Ventaamai Ilaanati SerndhaarkkuYaantum Itumpai Ila

  1. The men, who on the ‘King’s’ true praised delight to dwell,
    Affects not them the fruit of deeds done ill or well

Explanation: The two-fold deeds that spring from darkness shall not adhere to those who delight in the true praise of God

Transliteration: rulser Iruvinaiyum Seraa IraivanPorulser Pukazhpurindhaar Maattu

  1. Long live they blest, who ‘ve stood in path from falsehood freed;
    His, ‘Who quenched lusts that from the sense-gates five proceed’

Explanation: Those shall long proposer who abide in the faultless way of Him who has destroyed the five desires of the senses

Transliteration: Porivaayil Aindhaviththaan Poidheer OzhukkaNerinindraar Neetuvaazh Vaar

  1. Unless His foot, ‘to Whom none can compare,’ men gain,

‘Tis hard for mind to find relief from anxious pain

Explanation: Anxiety of mind cannot be removed, except from those who are united to the feet of Him who is incomparable

Transliteration: Thanakkuvamai Illaadhaan Thaalserndhaark KallaalManakkavalai Maatral Aridhu

  1. Unless His feet ‘the Sea of Good, the Fair and Bountiful,’ men gain,
    ‘Tis hard the further bank of being’s changeful sea to attain

Explanation: None can swim the sea of vice, but those who are united to the feet of that gracious Being who is a sea of virtue

Transliteration: Aravaazhi Andhanan Thaalserndhaark KallaalPiravaazhi Neendhal Aridhu

  1. Before His foot, ‘the Eight-fold Excellence,’ with unbent head,
    Who stands, like palsied sense, is to all living functions dead

Explanation: The head that worships not the feet of Him who is possessed of eight attributes, is as useless as a sense without the power of sensation

 Transliteration: Kolil Poriyin Kunamilave EnkunaththaanThaalai Vanangaath Thalai

  1. They swim the sea of births, the ‘Monarch’s’ foot who gain;
    None others reach the shore of being’s mighty main

Explanation: None can swim the great sea of births but those who are united to the feet of God

Transliteration: Piravip Perungatal Neendhuvar NeendhaarIraivan Atiseraa Thaar

 

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