956. The name “Nārāyaṇa” gives noble birth and removes all sorrow.
It grants wealth, grace, and the highest place in SriVaikuntam (Moksha).
It brings strength, joy, and a love greater than a mother’s care.
I have found this name—“Nārāyaṇa”—and it will give me a good life.
Word by Word (WBW) meaning
(The words may be rearranged to facilitate poetry to prose conversion (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continiously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning of those verse.)
nārāyaṇā ennum nāmam — the divine name, nārāyaṇa; kulam — (for those who meditate upon it) birth in great family; tharum — will grant;; selvam — wealth; tharum — will grant;; adiyār — servitors; padu — the sins to be experienced and exhausted; thuyar āyina ellām — everything which is known as dhu:kham (sorrow); nilam tharam seyyum — will completely flatten;; nīl̤ visumbu — paramapadham; arul̤um — will grant; arul̤odu — with mercy; peru nilam — the great position of kainkaryam; al̤ikkum — will grant;; valam — strength (to enjoy him); tharum — will grant;; maṝum — all other aspects of well-being; thandhidum — will facilitate;; peṝa thāyinum — more than the mother who gave the body; āyina — expansion of true knowledge which is good; seyyum — will cause;; nalam tharum — giving kainkaryaṣrī (wealth of servitude); sollai — divine name; nān — ī who had no knowledge about the existence of such wealth; kaṇdu koṇdĕn — got to realise.