A prayer for the day----Thiruppavai 5.

Worship ,sing and meditate.Then all your follies will be burnt to ashes.

Mayana mannu vadamadurai maindhanai thooya peruneer yamunai thuraivanai,

Aayar kulatnil thondrum annivillakai thayai kudalvillakam seidha modharanai,

Thooyamai vandhunaam thoomalar thoovi thozhudhu,vaaiyinal paadi manathinal sindhikka,

Poya phizhaiyum phugutharuvaan ninranavum theeiyinal dhoosagum cheppe lorimpaavai.

meaning.

'O'Magician! the son of the soil of northern Madurai [Mathura]

The One who made the huge volume of waters of Yamuna sacred by residing on its banks,

The beautiful and auspicious light of the Yadava clan,

Damodhara !Who brought fame to his mother and her womb,

We are worshipping you with fresh flowers, with a pure heart, singing your praises ,meditating on you and chanting your sacred names.,

So that the follies of our past and the bad consequences of the deeds that we may do unknowingly in future ,will be burnt down to ashes like a piece of cotton thrown into fire!

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Note.Today is the 5 th day of Marghazhi month in Tamil calendar.In this month a prayer a day from the 30 hymns of Andal the vaishnavaite saint ,collectively known as Thiruppavai is sung.

Thiruppavai is said to compress within ,the knowledge found in the Vedas.

The choice of words is so good and the spirituality so deep that one can never tire of it ,how many ever times it is recited.

One who has the marks of the rope tied around his waist ,is the meaning of the sacred name'Damodhara'.It refers to Yashoda,tying the mischievous child, Krishna to the stone grinder.

It also refers to the simplicity and the easy accessibility of Krishna.