பட்டினம் காப்பே
For a long time, in this life, one is caught in the deep pit of attachment and struggle through as if caught in a deep dark cave and helplessly remaining there not knowing how to come out.
For a long time, in this life, one is caught in the deep pit of attachment and struggle through as if caught in a deep dark cave and helplessly remaining there not knowing how to come out.
Reach out to God through Prayers and Selfless Service - Be freed from the prison of stomach, from mortal fetters of birth and loosen the shackles on the legs, nerves and bones
(5.2)
Periyazhvar began the final canto of the Periyazhvar Thirumozhi pleading for help in making him surrender to the Lord after announcing that he has been guilty of many mistakes in life.
In the 2nd decad, Periyazhvar turns positive and supremely confident. He says he has had the much needed conversation with the Lord and he is now in safe hands knowing that he is being protected by the Lord. Hence he claims to have no fear now.
The old fearful stories of what might happen to life have changed and that fear has been removed and clarity has now been obtained. And he is now well guarded.
He compares the opportunity before us in this life to ants.
What Bondage does
Just like a swarm of ant that enters pure ghee that is to the brim, there is a sickness of bondage in different parts of the body parts. But there is an opportunity for us to flee and save ourselves.
நெய்குடத்தைப்பற்றிஏறும்எறும்புகள்போல்நிரந்துஎங்கும்
கைகொண்டுநிற்கின்றநோய்கள்
Periyazhvar says he has seized on the opportunities to surrender to the Lord and is now well protected with nothing to worry. Now he is happy that the old insecure feelings of what will happen are all gone. He says he has received that enlightenment and the Lord has entered his soul and is inclined to stay in him.
Even Yama runs away!!!!!!!
He says with great delight that the verdict of Chitragupta, with Yama’s stamp has now been quashed. That team has now fled far away from him as the God himself has embraced him and he is assured of his protection ( In the last decade of the fourth canto, Periyazhvar had dedicated almost an entire decad describing Yama and his actions http://prtraveller.blogspot.in/2015/10/srirangam-ranganatha-advance-prayer.html).
சித்திரகுப்தன்எழுந்தால்தென்புலக்கொண்பொறிஒற்றி
வாய்த்தஇலச்சினைமாற்றித்தூதுவர்ஓடியொளிந்தார்
Brilliant Description of Freedom from Bondage
The Lord has provided us with the opportunity to read about him and to understand him through the many historical works and to practise austerities and restraint. Having undertaken that, Periyazhvar says he has now accepted the Lord in his service. He has been freed from the prison of stomach, from mortal fetters of birth, loosened the shackles on his legs, nerves and bones.
கயிற்றும்அக்குஆணிகழித்துக்காலிடப்பாசம்கழற்றி
Evil thoughts Go Away from here
Because of earlier karmas, diseases have been inflicted on him. But now, it is not so. He once again says he has found a new protection and no one can inflict evil thoughts in him anymore. No more can evil rogues affect him for he now has the treasure house of rubies. With the Lord now residing in his heart through the day and night, he directs the evil to find their way elsewhere to some weaker soul!!!
A NEW REVELATION
Periyazhvar now confidently utters that his body is no more filled with miseries of life as the key to that has been his understanding of this life and the importance of having the Lord in his mind all the time. And he repeatedly says that all the negative forces of life to go and find other weak beings who will succumb to the temptations of life.
Life bound in a Deep Dark Cave
For a long time, in this life, one is caught in the deep pit of attachment and struggle through as if caught in a deep dark cave and helplessly remaining there not knowing how to come out. Periyazhvar says he has finally got the grace of God and has now got the feeling that he has been ridden from his karmas of the past and present.
கொங்கைச்சிறுவரையென்னும்பொதும்பினில்வீழ்ந்துவழக்கி
அங்கோர்முழையினில்புக்கிட்டுஅழந்திக்கிடந்துஉழல்வேனை
Having been ignorant with many doubtful claims and knowledge that was contrary, he says that like a typical human being, he failed to capture the right and wrong. But the opportune time has now arrived. And he has penetrated the Lord’s heart and stamped his feet on his forehead as a sacred symbol in his head. He feels sanctified now with no fear for anything.