1815. O heart, do you realize that the body
made of sky where clouds float,
and of fire, water, earth and air
is not a fortress and that it will not save you?
Go to Thiruvallavazh and worship the lord
who stays with statue-like Lakshmi seated on a lotus,
her soft breasts smeared with sandal paste.
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(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.)