One Word Many Meanings

Each Classical Tamil word has many possible meanings

Because in incantation languages like Classical Tamil, each word has many possible meanings to it, with mind humbly invoking Lord Siva's Grace, we just have to look into the classical Tamil dictionary for the meaning of each word in a Tirumantiram verse that yields a coherent and wholesome meaning.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Tirumantiram 151 - Tantra 1 - We die leaving behind our beloved and wealth

கைவிட்டு நாடிக் கருத்தழிந்து அச்சற
நெய்யட்டிச் சோறுண்ணும் ஐவரும் போயினார்
மையிட்டக் கண்ணாளும் மாடும் இருக்கவே
மெய்விட்டுப் போக விடை கொள்ளுமாறே.  151 

Literal Translation
1  Hold-abandoned body-dweller-(her) memory-destroyed body-severed,
2  Blood-adjoined -food-eating five-also left,
3  Collirium-laid eyed-she*-and wealth-also abiding(-left-over)-with
4  body-abandoned go-to leave taking-mode (!)

Lucid Translation
1)  The body-dweller (of the subtle body),
     a)  with the (abidance in the physical) body having been severed,
     b)  the memory of the physical body having been destroyed,
     abandoned the hold over the physical body.
2)  The five (vital energies) that eat food, adjoining the blood, also left (the physical body)
3)  The wife with collyrium-laid eyes and the wealth of the dead one were left over.
4)  The dead one took to the mode of taking leave, having abandoned the physical body.

* wife







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