He is the wonderful light without beginning or end. O my friend with eyes sharp as swords, do you hear me singing the praise of the lord? You are sleeping. Are your ears closed so you cannot hear people singing the praise of the great lord on the street? You hear it, sigh and sigh and forget yourself, roll on your bed, covered with flowers, and you don’t get up or do anything. What is this! What is this! Do you sleep like this always? eeloor empaavaay.
You say all your love is for the lord, the highest light, and speak of him night and day. Do you love this bed covered with blossoms? You and your friends are ornamented with lovely jewels! Chi, chi, is this the way you play and mock the lord? Even the gods in the sky feel shy to praise the lotus feet of our bright lord, the god of heaven, and the giver of grace. We are the beloved devotees of lsan, the dancer in the golden hall in Thillai, aareloor empaavaay.
Her friends say, “O young one, you smile beautifully with your pearl-like teeth. When you get up early, your heart melts for the lord and you say sweetly, ‘He is the lord, the joy, sweet as nectar!’ Come and open your door.” The sleeping girl says, “O devotees of the lord, you are the ancient servants of the lord and you are good. I love the lord as you do. Won't you forgive my faults and accept me?" Her friends say, “Do you think we don’t know, you are pretending? Do you think we don't praise lord Shiva? We really deserve this!" eel oor empavaay.
Your teeth shine like bright pearls and you speak sweetly like a parrot. We tell you everything we know about the lord. Do not sleep and waste time. The lord of the sky, the remedy for all, the wonderful meaning of the Vedas, is sweet to the eyes. Without you, our hearts do not melt for him, we cannot sing the praise of the lord and do not know how to praise him. Come and help us. Let us praise the lord. Don't sleep any more. Wake up, eeloor embaavaay.
O girl with fragrant hair, come and open the door. Your speech is as sweet as milk and honey! You lie and say that you know the mountain-like lord even Thirumal and Brahma could not find. This is just a joke! Even though the world, the sky or anything else cannot know him, he presents himself to us and gives us his grace. We loudly sing his praise and his wonderful qualities and say, “Shiva, Shiva!" but you do not wake up, you do not wake up, parisiloor embaavaay.
O girl, lovely as a doe. I told you yesterday that I would come and wake you up, but you went away without telling me where you were going. Aren't you ashamed? See, it is dawn. The lord whom the sky, the earth and all other things do not know, the king of you, of us and all others, comes, gives us his grace and protects us. We come singing the wonderful praise of the ornamented feet of the lord, but you do not open your mouth, you do not melt in your heart and worship him. Sing his praise and worship him, eeloor embaavaay.
O dear one, you say only a few words to praise him. He, the most famous one, is not known by all the gods. Open your mouth and say, “Shiva” and we will tell his wonderful qualities to you. Even before we say, “The lord of the south," you melt like wax in fire. Listen as we all say, “He is our chief, our king and our sweet nectar." But you, as if you were hard-hearted, do not hear, you just lie and sleep here and there without saying anything. How could you sleep like this? parisiloor embaavaay.
The cock crows, the sparrows sing, the sound of the white conches spreads beautifully everywhere. We praise him saying, “He is faultless light, he is pure and he shows us compassion." Don't you hear? May you prosper! How can you sleep like this? Open your mouth. ls this the way you love the lord of the oceans? Sing the praise of the ancient lord of uzhi, the friend of the poor. Sing his praise, eeloor embaavaay.
O lord, you are the ancient of the ancient, the creator of past things and of all things that will arise in future. We, your devotees, have the fortune of having you as our lord. We will bow to the feet of your devotees and be their dear friends. We will do anything they ask us and make them happy. O our king, if you give us this boon we will have no troubles, eeloor embaavaay.
The lord is the meaning of all things. Thirumal could not find his lotus feet even though he went beneath the seven underworlds and Brahma could not find his head even though he flew to the top of the sky. His divine body is not one, it is shared with his wife, innocent Shakti. Even the gods in the sky, the Vedas, the earth, his friend Sundarar, faultless kings and priests in the temples, do not have enough words to praise him. Where does he come from? What is his name? Who are his friends? Who are his enemies? How could we praise him? parisiloor empaavaay.
O lord, we plunged into the large ponds swarmed with bees, splashing with our hands again and again and praising your ornamented feet. O dear one, you are smeared with pure white ashes, and you are the beloved of lovely Shakti whose eyes are decorated with kohl. We, your devotees for many generations, have played as you wanted us to and now we are tired. Protect us, eeloor empaavaay.
he dancer of the beautiful hall in Thillai creates, protects and destroys all the worlds and removes births that give suffering. O girls, let us play, talk with each other and plunge into the pond filled with blossoming flowers as our bangles jingle and our anklets rattle while bees swarm around our beautiful hair. Let us praise his golden feet and bathe in the mountain spring eeloor empaavaay.
The lovely kuvalai flowers bloom and the red lotuses open their buds, looking like our goddess and the lord joined together in love. The kurugu birds sing and their sound spreads everywhere. O devotees, come, let us bathe in the pond filled with water where lotus buds bloom and plunge and plunge into it. As we bathe in the bubbling water our conch bangles jingle and our breasts swing. Let us plunge and bathe in the pond, eeloor empaavaay.
When we plunge into the water to bathe our earrings swing, our golden ornaments sway, and our hair decorated with garlands comes loose, as the swarming bees sing around our hair. Let us bathe in the cool water and praise Thillai, Thiruchitrambalam, the hall where he dances. Let us sing the Vedas and praise the lord of the Vedas, the ancient, bright lord, without beginning or end, adorned with kondrai garlands. Let us praise the feet of our goddess ornamented with jingling bangles, who gave us birth and raised us to be her devotees, eeloor empaavaay.
O girls, our friend says as our lord raises his beautiful left foot and dances his right leg stays firmly on the earth. Her heart feels joy when she thinks of him, her eyes shed unceasing tears, she falls to the ground and worships him, and she will not worship any other gods in the sky. She is crazy only for the lord, our king. We do not know how the skilled lord could have made her love him so. Who is he? O girls with bands and ornaments on your breasts, let us plunge into the pond blooming with lovely flowers and play, eeloor empaavaay.
O cloud, you take the water from the ocean and rise to the sky, looking like the goddess Uma, shine with lightning like her small waist, and sound like the golden anklets on her feet. She, the goddess with eyebrows like bows, rules us and she is never separated from her beloved Shiva. O cloud, you pour like the sweet grace that she gives to the devotees of our king Shiva, eeloor empaavaay.
girl, bees swarm around your dark hair! The lord gives us incomparablejoy that he does not give even to Thirumal, Brahma or other gods and comes to our home and gives us his grace so we may worship his lovely golden lotus feet. Let us, his devotees, praise our lord, the lovely-eyed king, sweet as nectar, so our lives may prosper. Let us plunge into the bubbling water where lotuses bloom and sing the praise of our lord. eeloor empaavaay.
When the gods in the sky bow and worship the lotus feet of the lord of the Annamalai hills as the jewels on their crowns lose their luster, it is as when the sun, the eye of the world, rises, and the dark clouds in the sky disappear and the shining stars lose their brightness and hide. He is precious as nectar, the bright sky, the earth, all other things, a man, woman and ali. O girls, let us sing and praise his ornamented feet and plunge into the water and play, eeloor empaavaay.
“We give our child in the hands of the lord for he is our refuge"— such is the saying, but we are afraid it may not be true. O lord, we need to tell you something, listen! May our breasts not embrace the arms of anyone but your devotees, may our hands not serve anyone but you, and may our eyes see nothing in the day or night but you. O king, if you give us this boon here and now, why should we worry about whether the beautiful sun rises or when it rises or where. Let us plunge into the water and play, eeloor empaavaay.
Let us worship the ancient lord and his lotus feet adorned with beautiful golden anklets that give birth and joy and moksha to all creatures. Let us praise his lotus feet and head which Thirumal and Brahma could not find. Let us worship his golden lotus feet that give us grace and make us his. Let us plunge into the water, bathe in the pond and play, praising our lord in the month of Markazhi, eeloor empaavaay.