Maṅgalam 1
A benedictory verse, standing outside the numbered sequence.
உள்ளதலது உள்ளவுணர்வு உள்ளதோ உள்ளபொருள்உள்ளலற உள்ளத்தே உள்ளதால் உள்ளமெனும்உள்ளபொருள் உள்ளலெவன் உள்ளத்தே உள்ளபடிஉள்ளதே உள்ளல் உணர்வாயே உள்ளே
உள்ளது அலது உள்ள உணர்வு உள்ளதுஓ உள்ள பொருள் உள்ளல் அற உள்ளத்துஏ உள்ளது ஆல் உள்ளம் எனும் உள்ள பொருள் உள்ளல் எவன் உள்ளத்துஏ உள்ள படி உள்ளதுஏ உள்ளல் உணர் வாயே உள்ளே
In plain words
Is there any knowing at all apart from That which simply is? Look for one. You will not find it — there is nothing standing outside Being from which Being could be observed. And That is already here, in the Heart, in the one place thought has never reached. So how would you *think* it? You cannot think your way toward what is doing the thinking. There is only this: be, in the Heart, as you already are. That is what 'thinking of It' actually means. Know it — and know it inwardly.
Word for word
Other than That-which-is, is there an awareness that is? Because the Reality that is, is in the Heart itself free of thinking — how to think the Reality that is, called the Heart? To be in the Heart as it is, that alone is thinking. Know indeed, within.