976. When the senses grow frail and the body weak, when old age sets in, and you sit alone, heart heavy, mind disturbed, before your mouth babbles what your eyes merely saw, and thick phlegm is pushed out again and again, hold the cool garland of tulasi in hand, recite His thousand names with love, and join the devotees who circle, sing, and dance. Let us worship Him at sacred Badrinath!
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 simple meaning of those verse.)
meyyil — in the body; pulangal̤ — senses; naiya — to become weak; mūththu — having become old; pŏndhu — going to a secluded place; irundhu — remaining (there); ul̤l̤am el̤gi — having the heart worried; kalanga — as imbalance (in vādha, piththa and ṣlĕshma) occurs (due to that); aikkal̤ — kapam (mucus); pŏdha undhi — getting pushed out greatly; kaṇda — as things are seen; pidhaṝā mun — before blabbering; valam kol̤ — (performing favourable actions such as) circumambulating etc; thoṇdar — ṣrīvaishṇavas who are servitors; alangalāya — in the form of a garland; thaṇ thuzhāy — cool thiruththuzhāy; koṇdu — holding in hand; āyiram nāmam — (his) thousand divine names; solli — recite; pādi — sing; ādum — dancing; vadhari — sarvĕṣvaran who is residing in ṣrī badhari; vaṇangudhum — let us worship