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February 2023 Good Thoughts Calendar
This month Our Good Thoughts Calendar contains 28 quotations from Tamil Poetess Andal’s hymn Tiruppavai
Festival Days- 4/5 Thai Poosam ; 5- Jothi Darsanam in Vadalur; 18- Maha Shivaratri ; 21 Sri Ramakrishna Jayanthi ; 26 Sri Raghavendra Jayanthi
Full Moon Day -5; New Moon Day -20; Ekadasi Fasting Days – 1, 16
Auspicious Days- 3, 10, 12, 19, 23, 24
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(Pronunciation Guide: Andal= aandaal; Tiruppavai= Thiruppaavai)
February 1 Wednesday
Maarkazi Month Full Moon Day
Yadava Girls, Let us go and bathe (verse 1)
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February 2 Thursday
And who has face sunny bright, pleasant as moon
It’s only that Narayana will grant us desire soon
Let us join with the world in praising his glory, Girls (1)
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February 3 Friday
we fast, forsake milk and ghee, and bathe early,
not decorate ourselves with eyeliner or flowers
not do inappropriate acts, nor gossip
Will give charity, give alms and be good to the saints
think noble thoughts to attain salvation, my girls (2)
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February 4 Saturday
If we sing the glory of one who has measured the earth with his long steps and if we bathe our Paavai deity there will be rain thrice a month- verse 3
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February 5 Sunday
Brook no delay, force a cloudburst
Pour down as would darts from Saaranga, lash
To facilitate life on earth bright- 4
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February 6 Monday
The sins committed deliberate or inadvertent
In the past, present and future entire
Shall be burnt a refuse in bonfire -5
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February 7 Tuesday
Poison he sucked from devil’s breast
Kicked deftly the treacherous cart, to a shatter
On the serpent alighted in ocean had set sleeping
Kept this seed in mind, monks and Yogis
Arise gently and Hari they mumble-6
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February 8 Wednesday
Him who had split snout of the devil
Killed wrestlers and quelled
He shall hearken our welfare and spell-8
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February 9 Thursday
Of yore consigned Kumbakarna to death
Has that demon, lost in contest peak
Handed the grand sleep unto thee —10
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February 10 Friday
Shalt arise now the very least
What a grand sleep thou acquiesce
Residents all aware and muse – 12
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February 11 Saturday
Venus ascended and Jupiter had slept sunk
Birds too clanged behold, belle gild—13
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February 12 Sunday
We will sing the elusive
Who had crushed the tusker mighty massive
And shattered hostile —- 15
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February 13 Monday
Guard of the entrance with flag staff ostensive
And festoon suspended across
Open latch of jewel studded door —16
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February 14 Tuesday
Grown piercing the cosmos. Thou had meted this earth
King of angels. Thou shalt arise—-17
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February 15 Wednesday
Nappinnai! Thy hair perfume fragrant , door thou open—18
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February 16 Thursday
Move ahead of thirty three celestial beings
Thou forestall tremor, vanguard, mighty awake —-20
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February 17 Friday
Present us thy groom
Fan circular and optics
And bathe us right now we derelicts
In his ocean compassion, thou mediatrix—20
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February 18 Saturday (Shiva ratri day)
In vessels receptacle filled to brim , grand donor cows
Issue incessant flow of milk to counter flow—21
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February 19 Sunday
Beneath thy bedside have we gathered
As kings on this large handsome Earth
Would crowd around, sans ego -22
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February 20 Monday
If thou glimpse with eyes two beautiful
By little and little on us tarnished
Sin and curse will vanish—22
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February 21 Tuesday
As would a fierce lion in a mountain den
Stay along in winter, lie asleep gang with
Enlightened, open eye, emit fire, mane erect
Stretch in all direction, Oh Bilberry hued
Thou shalt roar.—23
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February 22 Wednesday
All hail, Thy glory kicked the wheel to ruins
All hail, Thy foot the calf, as a throw stick tossed
All hail, Thy generosity held the hillock an umbrella—24
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February 23 Thursday
We have come unto Thee beseeching
To solicit wealth which patroness would covet
If Thou would st grant us the desire
We would sing Thy bravery, ridding grief entire —-25
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February 24 Friday
Thou shalt grant us huge conches, milky white
When trumpeted shall bring
The entire earth to shudder severe
Much alike Thy Panchajanya—26
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February 25 Saturday
Cooked milk rice delicious
Steeped in ghee poured off copious
Which flows down the elbow—27
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February 26 Sunday
We girls ignorant and forlorn
Addressed Thee in unbecoming names
Let Thou not hiss! Lo! Master
Bless us —-28
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February 27 Monday
Forever seven and seven more births
Related to Thy bond will we be near-29
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February 28 Tuesday
Whoever reminisces this legacy in thirty Tamil hymns
In commune, hither in this manner without fail
Shall get the blessings of Thirummal.
And shall remain delighted —verse 30
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Translated by Dr Chenni Padmanabhan ; used with my few inputs.
Tags- Andal, Golden Sayings, Tiruppavai, February 2023, Calendar
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