മംഗളാചരണം
The Opening Invocation
The Jñānappāna opens not with an argument but with a chant. Pūntānam places the refrain at the door of the work: Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Mukunda, Janārdana, Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, Nārāyaṇa, Hari. The eight names that will return at the end of nearly every later movement are stated first, sung, before any teaching is given. The reader who has not yet read a line of the pāṇa has already chanted the eight names of the Lord. By the end of the work the same line will have been said several dozen times, and the chanting is the practice the work is teaching.
കൃഷ്ണ! കൃഷ്ണ! മുകുന്ദ! ജനാർദ്ദന!
കൃഷ്ണ! ഗോവിന്ദ! നാരായണാ! ഹരേ!kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! mukunda! janārddana! kṛṣṇa! gōvinda! nārāyaṇā! harē!
Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Mukunda, Janārdana. Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, Nārāyaṇa, Hari.
അച്യുതാനന്ദ! ഗോവിന്ദ! മാധവാ!
സച്ചിദാനന്ദ! നാരായണാ! ഹരേ!acyutānanda! gōvinda! mādhavā! saccidānanda! nārāyaṇā! harē!
Acyuta, Ānanda, Govinda, Mādhava. Saccidānanda, Nārāyaṇa, Hari.
ഗുരുനാഥൻ തുണചെയ്ക സന്തതം
തിരുനാമങ്ങൾ നാവിന്മേലെപ്പോഴുംgurunāthan tuṇaceyka santataṁ tirunāmaṅṅaḷ nāvinmēleppōḻuṁ
May the master always be my help. May his holy names be on my tongue at every moment.
പിരിയാതെയിരിക്കണം നമ്മുടെ
നരജന്മം സഫലമാക്കീടുവാൻ!(2)piriyāteyirikkaṇaṁ nammuṭe narajanmaṁ saphalamākkīṭuvān!(2)
Whatever I do, by hand, by foot, by tongue, by belly, let all of it be your worship, Lord of the world.
കാലലീല
തിരുത്തുകkālalīla tiruttuka
Whatever wealth, whatever name, whatever wisdom is given to me, let all of it be at the feet of the Lord. May the holy names be the only home I keep.
