Thiruvaimozhi is equal to vedas

Courtesy:Smt.Dr.Saroja Ramanujam

Thiruvaimozi

of Nammazvar

I am giving the essence of Thiruvaimozi here. It is in English for the sake of those who cannot read or understand Tamil. This is my offering to Nammazvar whose birthday is today. I will explain the first ten decades of his work in these posts.

BhakthAmrtham viSvajanAnumOdhanam

sarvArThadham SriSatagopavAngmayam

sahasraSAkhOpanishadsamAgamam

namAmyaham dhrAvidavEdhasAgaram.(Nadha munigaL)

Thiruvaimozi of Satagopa (nammAzvAr) is the ocean of Tamil scripture, veda itself in Tamil.I bow down to this which is like nectar to devotees, delight of all people in the world,and comprises of all the truths and the essence of the upanishads.

Thiruvaimozi is the work of NammAzvar also known as Satagopan because he was not born in the natural way but manifested himself and hence not influenced by the SatavAyu which destroys the memory of previous births before the embodied soul is expelled from the womb of the mother. He manifested in the month of viSakha and the star of viSAkha in Thirukkurugur.He never ate or drunk anything since his manifestation and nor talked and while young he sat in meditation under a tamarind tree in front of the temple in Thirukkurugur.

ThiruvaimoZi is supposed to be equal to the vedas and expounds the meaning of dhvaya manthra and arThapanchaka.It contains more than thousand pasurams, divided into ten parts of ten sections each,and
rich in meaning.