RAMANA MAHARSHI’SAKSHARA MANA MALAI (91 to 99)

English Transliteration and Explanation

Refrain

• Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala Shiva,

Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala….

• Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala Shiva,

Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala ….

( this refrain has to be chanted after each verse or at least after every nineth verse )

Aksharamanamalai (91)

• Raapakalilla veru veli veetil, ramithuduvom vaa, Arunachala!• My Inference: Oh Arunachala! Whenever you

remove my ego completely, I am able to join with you to enjoy the Glow of the divine happiness in the Universal Emptiness with no night or no day. Please keep me only in this state always, Arunachala!

Aksharamanamalai (92)

• Lakshiyamvaithu arulasthiram vittenai, pakshithaay prananodu, Arunachala!• My Inference: Oh Arunachala! Having

determined to take me, you shot me like aiming an arrow, and brought me to Thiruvannamalai and ate my body (ego) completely and made me a pure soul, What a wonderful Grace you have Arunachala!

Aksharamanamalai (93)

• Labhamnee ikhapara labhamil yenaiyutru, labhamennutranai, Arunachala!• My Inference: Oh Arunachala! I have gained

lot of benefit by reaching you, which no one else has got, but what benefit you got by taking me with you as your devotee? Your Grace is such, that you don’t expect anything else from your devotees other than their pure love and surrender.

Aksharamanamalai (94)

• Varumbadi sholilai, vanden padiyala, varundhidun thalai vidhi, Arunachala!• My Inference: Oh Arunachala! You have only

made me to come to Thiruvannamalai. As I have nobody here, you have to only take care of my bodily requirements also. Though it may be a worry for you, what can I do? It is your fate !

Aksharamanamalai (95)

• Vaaven dragampukkun vaazhvarula ndreyen, vaazhvi zhanden arul, Arunachala!

• Inference: Oh Arunachala! The moment you entered my mind, and with your Grace, I started to have a divinely life, and immediately at the same moment I have thrown my egoistic bodily life.

Aksharamanamalai (96)

• Vittidir kattamaam vittida thunaiuyir, vittida arulpuri, Arunachala !• My Inference: Oh Arunachala! Please Grace

me and continue to remain in my mind till I am leaving this world (dying), so that I can avoid the future births in my life cycle.

Aksharamanamalai (97)

• Veeduvitteerthula veedupukku payyavun,

veedukattinai yarul, Arunachala• My Inference: Oh Arunachala! Because of

your thread of Grace you pulled me out of my house and entered my mind and slowly made me to realize that you have made my mind as your permanent home and you are never going out of it, What a Great help that you have done to me, Arunachala!

Aksharamanamalai (98)

• Velivitten uncheyal veruthithadathunarul, velivitteyenaikaa, Arunachala !• My Inference: Oh Arunachala, Just because I

have exposed all your subtle nature, are you hating me, Arunachala? As your devotees are going to enjoy and praise you through these songs, instead, you are going to pour unlimited Grace on me, Arunachala!

Aksharamanamalai (99)

• Vedanthatte verara vilangum,

vedapporul arul Arunachala!• My Inference: Oh Arunachala! Please explain

to me the essence of all Vedas and Vedanta, in your own practical and understandable terms so that any ordinary man can also get benefitted.

Refrain

• Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala Shiva,

Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala….

• Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala Shiva,

Arunachala Shiva, Arunachala ….

( this refrain has to be chanted after each verse or atleast after every nine verses)