Chapter 2
Thillai Thiruchitrakudam 1 - (ஊன் வாட)
தில்லைத் திருச்சித்திரகூடம்-1
Inside the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple, also known as Thillai Nagar, there is a shrine for Govindaraja Perumal. Sri Vaishnavas refer to Chidambaram as Chitrakootam. In this temple, Govindaraja Perumal resides. The āzhvār advises, "Why undergo so much hardship by drying your body, eating fruits and leaves, and performing penance in water, forests, and + Read more
தில்லைநகர் என்று அழைக்கப்படும் சிதம்பரம் நடராசர் கோயிலுக்குள்ளே இக்கோயிலும் உள்ளது. ஸ்ரீவைஷ்ணவர்கள் சிதம்பரத்தைச் சித்திரகூடம் என்றே சொல்லுவார்கள். இக் கோயிலில் கோவிந்தராஜர் எழுந்தருளியிருக்கிறார். உடம்பை உலர்த்திக் காய்கனி இலைகளை உண்டு, தண்ணீரிலும், காடுகளிலும், மலைகளிலும் தவம் செய்து + Read more
Verses: 1158 to 1167
Grammar: Eṇcīrk Kaḻinediladi Āsiriya Viruththam / எண்சீர்க் கழிநெடிலடி ஆசிரிய விருத்தம்
Pan: பழந்தக்கராகம்
Recital benefits: Will go to Vaikuṇṭam and remain there always with the Lord
- Verse 1:
1158. O devotees, if you want to rule the world of the gods, you do not have to starve and suffer and do tapas and all of your five senses do not have to be restrained. Just go to Thillai Chitrakudam where peacocks dance, fish frolic in the water of the springs, bees drink honey and flags flutter on the tops of palaces. - Verse 2:
1159. O devotees, if you want to reach him who embraces Lakshmi on his chest, you do not have to eat vegetables and fruits or perform tapas by standing for long periods of time and undergo the five types of sacrifices with fire. Just go to the famous Thillai Chitrakudam and worship him where good Maraiyālars recite the Vedās always and make sacrifices with fire that rises high, and just keep the lord in your heart. - Verse 3:
1160. O devotees, if you want to see the lord who went through the ocean to the underground world as a boar and rescued the earth goddess stolen by an Asuran, just go to Thillai Chitrakudam, the sacred temple surrounded with jeweled palaces covered with pure gold where the Pallava king with a large army brought gold, pearls and jewels and worshiped him. - Verse 4:
1161. O devotees, you say that your sorrow-filled births will go away if you recite the divine names of the lord who went as a dwarf and asked for three feet of land at the sacrifice of Mahābali and measured the world and the sky with his two feet. If you want to reach him, just go to Thillai Chitrakudam where Thirumāl with divine Lakshmi rests happily on Adisesha on the dark ocean and worship him, and you will not be born again. - Verse 5:
1162. O devotees, if you want to reach the lord who came as the sage ParasuRāman carrying an axe and fought with many kings to save this world encircled by the seas, just go to famous Thillai Chitrakudam surrounded with blooming groves where he stays with the earth goddess and Lakshmi as the goddess of fame shines everywhere. - Verse 6:
1163. O devotees, if you want to live thinking only of the dark-colored lord shining like a jewel, who as Rāma shot his sharp arrows at the ocean and built a bridge to go to Lankā, just go to beautiful Thillai Chitrakudam where Vediyars recite the Vedās that they know so well and young girls listen to their recitation and sing after them while parrots hear the girls and chant with them. - Verse 7:
1164. If you want to keep in your heart the lord who loved the soft arms of Nappinnai, the cowherd girl adorned with jasmine flowers on her hair, and the divine Lakshmi, born from the milky ocean rolling with waves, whom he keeps on his divine chest, just go to sacred Thillai Chitrakudam surrounded by the divine river Vellāru that carries elephants’ tusks and sandalwood from the hills while the moon circles around that lovely place. - Verse 8:
1165. O devotees, if you want to reach the ornamented feet with sounding anklets of the Māyan who grazed the cows and carried Govardhanā mountain as an umbrella to rescue the cows when they suffered in a terrible storm, just go to flourishing Thillai Chitrakudam where the god of gods, the divine light, stays, worshiped by three thousand Vediyars, the learned of the Vedās. - Verse 9:
1166. O devotees, if you want to remove the karmā that you have collected because of your passion for women with dark eyes that are like spears for fighting, and want to reach the famous world that is above even the world of the gods, just go to shining Thillai Chitrakudam where kayal fish frolic in the seeded fields, beautiful neelam flowers bloom everywhere and the Vellāru river flows with abundant water and brings pearls. - Verse 10:
1167. Kaliyan, the generous poet who gives like rain composed a garland of ten Tamil pāsurams on Thirumāl so the people of the world may hear them and be happy. If devotees learn and recite these ten musical pāsurams on the lord of beautiful Thillai Thiruchitrakudam surrounded with lovely groves and the sea rolling with waves, they will go to the spiritual world and stay under the feet of him who measured the world and the sky in two steps, and they will live for many ages.