Verse 00 [Benedictory or 'mangalam']

[vasudevaram]

Dear members:

Here is the word break-down for the benedictory or the 'mangalam' Verse for the Supplement to The Forty. We can read through it and let the sounds and meanings sink in, and also, we can hear the verse by clicking on:

www.sriramanamaharshi.org/musics_tamil_parayana/23ULLADHU%20NARPADHU%20ANUBANDHAM.mp3

which is on the Sri Ramanasramam Website

Why not click, listen and read?

etankaNNee	nilaiyaaki	yirunt’idumiv	vulakamellaa	metana	t’ellaa
etan kaNNee	nilai aaki	irunt’idum iv

[/td][td]ulakam ellaam,[/td][td]etanatu[/td][td]ellaam,[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]in which[/td][td]’arena in which’/ ’manifest become’[/td][td]exists [reinf] this[/td][td]

world   all

[/td][td]to which belongs[/td][td]all this[/td][/tr]

[tr][td].[/td][/tr]

[tr][td]metaninR’iv[/td][td]vanaitt’ulaku[/td][td]mezhumoomaR[/td][td]R’ivaiyaavu[/td][td]metanpo[/td][td]ruddaa[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]etaninRu iv[/td][td]anaittu ulakum[/td][td]ezhumoo, maRRu[/td][td]ivai yaavum[/td][td]etan po-[/td][td]-ruddaam[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]from which this[/td][td]all world[/td][td]arises, also[/td][td]these all things[/td][td]“What are...”[/td][td]“...they all for?”[/td][/tr]

[tr][td].[/td][/tr]

[tr][td]metanaaliv[/td][td]vaiyamelaa[/td][td]mezhunt’idumiv[/td][td]vellaamu[/td][td]metuvee[/td][td]yaaku[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]etanaal iv[/td][td]vaiyam elaam[/td][td]ezhuntu idum, iv[/td][td]ellaamum[/td][td]etuvee[/td][td]aakum[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Through what agency this[/td][td]world universe all[/td][td]having arisen [rf], this[/td][/td][td]totality as well[/td][td]What actually[/td][td]is it?[/td][/tr]

[tr][td].[/td][/tr]

[tr][td]matutaanee[/td][td]yuLaporuLaañ[/td][td]sattiyamaa[/td][td]massorupa[/td][td]makattil[/td][td]vaippaam[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]atu taanee[/td][td]uLa poruL aam.[/td][td]sattiyam aam.[/td][td]as soruupam[/td][td]akattil[/td][td]vaippaam[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]That indeed[/td][td]Reality is.[/td][td]It’s the Truth.[/td][td]That Self/‘form’[/td][td]in the Heart[/td][td]let us place[/td][/tr][/table]

We shall be following on with notes on the feet, words and vocabulary.

anbudan

John

[vasudevaram]

tamizh	English	|	tamizh	English	|	tamizh	English
etan	which – see notes	|	maRRu	also, besides	|	poruddu	for the sake of & see notes
poruL	Ultimate Reality, final bliss	|	sattiyam	Truth	|	akam, akattil	Heart, in the Heart
soruupam	form	|	vaippaam	Let us place, let us worship	|	---	---

Some Notes:

This is from ‘etu’ = ‘which(?)’
but at this point I don’t really know how it ties in, and I can’t find it in the Arden’s Tamil Grammar.

However, I find it useful to remember the three ‘-tu’s:
‘itu’, ‘atu’ & ‘etu’

which are respectively,
‘this’, ‘that’ & ‘which’

‘etu’

NB: as many know from the word ‘atanaal[ee]’ ~ ‘therefore’ = ‘because of that’ (thing, etc).
In the same way with ‘itu’ ~ ‘this’; ‘because of this’. If the language allowed, we could say ‘thisfore’ !
So we also see with ‘etu’ ~ ‘which’; ‘because of which’; we certainly can’t say ‘whichfore’....

‘akam’ locative form is ‘akattil’.

This is the Sanskrit ‘aham’, but the word also has other meanings which appear to be not related to it:
House, dwelling; the earth; depth; place; It’s also a form of the 7th case or locative.

[vasudevaram]

• uLLatu alatu uLLa unarvu uLLatoo? -Could there be another Being—Consciousness apart from the one which already exists? (No!)
  This is the line which knocks any “Two Consciousness-es” fairly and squarely on the head. Were these first three feet of the poem learned, marked and digested, no end of circumambulation (beating-about-the-bush) would be halted in its tracks.
  Note that the ~oo ending shows a question which strongly implies the answer “No!”.
  It is rhetorical.
  
  
• uLLa poruL uLLal aRa uLLattu ee uLLataal:
  The Inner, Ultimate Reality thought-without in the Heart indeed since it exists –Called ‘heart’–
  i.e. Since the Ultimate Reality exists without thought in the Heart, called ‘Heart’...
  
  
• uLLa poruL uLLal evan How could one ‘meditate’ on it?
  If there is only the One Being—Consciousness, how could there ever be anything or anyone, separate, to meditate ‘on’ it?
  It is absurd, like the horn of a hare or the flower in the sky.
  
  
• uLLattu ee uLLapadi ~ in the Heart indeed truly As-It-Is,
  i.e. ...as it is truly in the Heart
  
  
• uLLatu ee uLLal The Being indeed is ‘meditating’
  Of the course the Being isn’t meditating ‘on’ anything... How could it? Who could do it?
  It’s an example of where language fails.
  
  
• unar. Know all this. Know it all deep inside. In silence, beyond words.

These posts posts complete the sub-board to the first Benedictory Subject.
However the thread has been left open, should one wish to add.
All that now remains is to add some translations to the main thread.
Perhaps you feel that it is not necessary to go through the mental process of translating.
Perhaps by now the matter is well-and-truly understood.