2675. AzhvAr as parakAla nAyaki speaks like a non-believer due to viraha tApam mocking the tenets of our sampradayam. The distressed nAyaki says that some uneducated men have stated that there is a fourth goal called mOksha which is the ultimate purushArtam to be achieved by a jeevA! This purushArtam appears to be a blind belief and the abode called srivaikuNTam seems to be an imaginative one. It says that the soul which has surrendered to emperumAn (a prapannan) reaches this abode after leaving the body. Would you like to hear more about it? Then listen carefully (OrAmai yAm Aru uraikEn kELAmE?).
Once the soul leaves the body after death, it rises up, cuts across the clouds in the vast sky and reaches the surya maNDalam. Here Lord surya is seen riding a radiant chariot with one wheel, pulled by seven horses driven by arunan who has no legs! (kArAr puravi Ezh pooNDa tani Azhi)! The soul is guided to a path which leads to the most auspicious abode of the lord called paramapadam which is the epitome of merriment for the soul never to return, free from getting entangled in the cycle of births. It appears (AzhvAr says) that the prapannan who is now a muktAtma enjoys the beauty and tastes the sweet nectar of the Lord paramapadanAThan by doing nityakainkaryam (eternal service) to Him and he is none but ArAvamudan of tirukkuDandai ( ArAvamudam aNgu Eydi) 3
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.)
ārānum — those with deficiency in knowledge; chikkena maṝu uṇdu enbār — will say that there is another stable purushārtham (of mŏksham, liberation); enbadhudhān adhuvum — that which is mentioned (by them); ulagaththār sollum sol — the word and the deed which is mentioned by the worldly people; ŏrāmai anṛĕ — aren’t these mentioned without analysing properly; adhu ŏrāmai ām āṛu uraikkĕn — ī will clarify (to you) that it has been mentioned without analysing; kĕl̤ āmĕ — Could you listen to that (by lending your ears)? (Please listen!); kār ār puravi ĕzh pūṇda thani āzhi — one which traverses the skies, reined by seven horses and having one wheel; thĕr ār — one who is fitting well in the chariot; niṛai kadhirŏn — sun, with complete set of rays; maṇdalaththai kīṇdu pukku — speeding away, piercing through the sun’s orbit; angu — paramapadham which is at a long distance; ārā amudham eydhi — attaining the supreme being who is like the most enjoyable nectar