Thiruvaimozhi 1.7.4

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1.7.4

 

mayarvaRa en manatthE

manninaan thannai

uyarvinaiyE tharum oN

sudarkattRaiyai

ayarvil amarargaL

aadhikkozhundhai en

isaivinai en solli yaan

viduvEnO

 

How can I leave Him, who entered my mind and removed

my ignorance, and continues to give higher and higher fruits of jnana and

bhakthi and who is the mass of light and the first cause of the nithya suris

who never cease to remember Him, and who is the love of my life.

 

mayarvu is the ignorance which

cause delusion that makes us believe that the world is the reality and to

undergo joy and sorrow alternatively.

 

aRa en manantthE

manninaan-

"The Lord entered my heart," says Azvar, and hence the ignorance is removed.

 

thannai enna solli yaan

viduvEno-

"How can I let Him go,: says Azvar,

 

en iSaivinai- Him who is the love of my life.

 

uyarvinaiyE tharum- He has not only removed

the ignorance but also has given the wisdom and devotion so that one will not

lapseback into ignorance again.

 

oN

sudar kattRai- the Lord is the beautiful

mass of light, thejo maya, as Sanjaya says on seeing the visvarupa of the Lord

in 11th chapter of Gita,

dhivi sooryasaharasya

bhaveth yugapath

utThithaa

yadhi bhaaH sadhrSee

saa syaath

bhaasasthasya mahaathmanaH

 

"If

a thousand suns rise simultaneously, that alone will be comparable to the brilliance

of the Lord."

 

ayarvu

il amarar

– the word amarar here does not mean the devas in general but the nithyasooris

, eternal beings who are always with the Lord, like Sesha, Garuda, Vishvaksena

and others because of the usage ayarvaRa, meaning without loss of memory, that

is constant remembrance.

 

aadhikkozhundhu means the origin of the

nithyasooris. aadhi denotes that the Lord is the source of them all and kozhundhu

implies that He is enjoyed by them always as in the expression aayartham

kozhundhu.

 

en solli yaan viduvEno-

how can

I let Him go?

 

To

the doubt that forced by circumstance which are opposed to the experiencing of

the Lord one has to give it up, the azvar replies in the next pasuram.