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.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Tirumantiram 144 - Tantra 1 - Impressions and wisdom alone accompany us upon disembodiment

பண்டம்-பெய் கூரை பழகி விழுந்த-அக்கால்
உண்ட அப்பெண்டிரும் மக்களும் பின்-செலார்
கொண்ட விரதமும் ஞானமும் அல்லது
மண்டி அவருடன் வழி நடவாதே.   144.



Literal Translation
1  Knowledge-pouring sand-house having ruled fallen-that-time
2  Agreeable-to-became those-women-and folks(-and) behind-go-will-not
3  Beheld mark-and wisdom(-and) other[one(s)-than]held
4  Kneeled-down him-with path traverse-will-not (lo! coursed thus!)

Lucid Translation
1  At that time when the knowledge-pouring sand-house (of the subtle body) 
    having ruled has fallen (outside the physical frame on death),
2  those women and folks, who became agreeable to that subtle body and its 
    knowledge, while alive in the physical frame), will not go behind it (the subtle 
    body).
3  Other than the beheld mark(/s) of impression and wisdom,
4  lo! (anything else) will not traverse the path (outside the physical frame), 
    kneeling down with him (!) (that disembodied subtle body)

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