In plain words
As a lamp shines through the openings of a pot, awareness streams through the senses and appears as ‘I know’. By its light the whole world is revealed. Homage to Dakshinamurti, the unwavering Guru. Tamil explanatory prose: Knowledge goes out through the senses and lights things up, as lamplight streams through a pot’s openings. The whole world is illumined through the one who shines of himself as “I know.” Salutations to that unmoving Guru Dakshinamurti.
Word for word
His awareness shines as ‘I know’, moving outward through the openings of the senses beginning with the eyes, like the streaming rays of a lamp within a pot with many openings. Depending on Him, this whole world shines. Homage to that Dakshinamurti, the motionless Guru.