Sometimes you happen to meet a great friend or a great poem. One such is the paasuram, the poem of Tiruvaimozhi, TheerthanukkE.
'The Lord of Beauty sanctifies
and wins you for ever and ever;
knowing well that there is no other refuge,
mentally resolved, happy, restful in Him, the great refuge;
Satakopa of the rich land of Kurukur
has uttered these thousand sanctities,
these thousand poems pure;
of these, even this decad, if anyone masters,
that person will be worshiped
by the Eternal Citizens of Vaikunt
and those celestials will fondly
describe that person illustrious
as the walking purifiers
to their mates
in their thick moments of service
to the Great God.'
(Reflecting meekly the EEdu..)
The key word in this poem is the Tamil word 'Theerthan'.
Theertham - taan parisuddhamumaai, tannai Sparisittaarukku parisuddharaampadi paNNumatAyirRu.
Theertham - that which itself is pure and also again that which purifies whatever comes in contact with itself.
theerthanukkaRRapin - He has won over me by His beauty and has made me dislike everything else.
When the heart goes after Tirumaal
pleasures all lose their hold on me
who is crazy over Paramaatma and dislikes anything which makes one forget Paramaatma.
So intense devotion to God itself makes you detached from worldly things. That is the meaning of Theertha.
Nammazhvar's poems are personifications of such intense devotion and not only that, those who have mastered and dedicated their hearts to his poems are also forms of Theerthams.
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