2719. Last out of the said 4, Mokshā can only be attained after the body has gone to the other world.
Those who want to reach it
should eat fallen fruits, dried leaves, make their bodies thin,
sleep in a hut roofed with leaves (7)
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.)
nānginum — among these four benefits; pinnai peyar tharum enbadhu — after this physical body is gone [after death], it will get another body (as mentioned in ṣāsthras); ŏr thol neṛiyai — that paramapadham (or archirādhi mārga, the way to reach paramapadham) is distinguished and is existing for a very long time; vĕṇduvār — nbsp;; vīzhkaniyum ūzh ilai ennum — fruits which had ripened and had fallen on their own as well as leaves which dried up; ivaiyĕ nugarndhu — eating these two; udalam varundhi — tormenting the physical body; thunnum ilaikkurumbaith thunjiyum — lying inside hermitages which are close to each other