Jnjaanappaana 27

Athra mukhyamaayulloru bhaaratha-
mipradesamennellarumorkkanam
Yugam naalilum nallu kaliyugam
Sukhame thanne mukti varuthuvaan

അത്ര മുഖ്യമായുള്ളൊരു ഭാരത-
മിപ്രദേശമെന്നെല്ലാരുമോർക്കണം
യുഗം നാലിലും നല്ലൂ കലിയുഗം
സുഖമേ തന്നെ മുക്തി വരുത്തുവാൻ. 

Everybody should remember (ellaarumorkkanam) that this place known as Bhaaratham (bhaarathamipradesham) is such an important place (athra mukhyamaayulloru) . Out of the four yugaas (yugam naalilum), Kaliyugam is the best (nallu) to attain salvation (mukthi varutthuvaan) easily or enjoyably (sughena).

Bhaaratham is a great place and people who are fortunate to be born in this land should always remember Her greatness.  By saying "ellaarum orkkanam" or everybody should remember, poet means that we should live up to the expectations of our mother land where ever we are and we should be proud of her. In this punya bhoomi, in this Kaliyuga, one can attain moksham through the most enjoyable path of Bhakthi and naamasankeerthanam. This path, unlike other paths is very easy. There is no sacrifice, no vratham, no yanjnam, no fasting, no specific place, time or mentality is necessary to do naamajapam. Repeated chanting purifies one's mind and the power of naamam leads him all the way to Bhagavaan. Valmiki is an example of starting chanting with "mara" and to become one of the greatest Brahmarshi who taught us the greatness of the "tharaka manthram" Rama.

Some people may wonder that even though Bhaaratham is considered to be better than Sathyalokam, how can one attain moksham in Kaliyuga where performing sacrificial rites and yanjaas are difficult due to many reasons.  Satsamgam is difficult in Kaliyuga because most of the people are materialistic and pursue any straight or crooked means to attain their selfish motives. Attaining salvation is the last thing in the minds of most of the people. Often worship of God is compared to elephant's bath or gajasnaanam. An elephant takes bath in a river or lake and with a clean body he gets out of water. But at the very first chance it will shower himself with the dry mud and makes himself dirty. Often we go to the temple for prayers or do pooja at home to purify our mind and next moment we knowingly or unknowingly dirty them with negative feelings of Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada and Mathsarya.

But Poonthaanam says that our worry about the effectiveness of Kaliyuga prayers is baseless. He swears on scriptures that Kaliyugam is the best yugam to advance easily in the spiritual path and attain salvation.

Karmadoshanidhe Rajan! asthihyeko mahan guna:
Keetthanaadeva Krishnasya mukthasamga: param vrajeth

"Even though, Kaliyuga has many negative qualities, there is one good thing about this yuga. Just by chanting Krishna's keerthanam and naamam, one can attain salvation".

In kaliyuga, it is said that Namasankeerthanam makes anything possible. We have heard many real life experiences of devotees about how they were saved from great calamities, how they were cured of diseases that doctors gave up on etc. Our own Melpatthoor was completely cured of his rheumatism at the young age of 26 by offering thousand manthra flowers at the feet of  Bhagavaan. Then he lived as a devotee until his eighties spreading the glory of Bhagavan.

Neelakandhan Nambishan gives a very interesting point in his interpretation. He says that chanting naamam is as easy as breathing because with each breath you can chant one small naamam out of the thousand of names of Bhagavan. This air or oxygen in the air,  keep us alive and we are experiencing it's presence every moment. This Praana Vaayu or breath of life is alive because of the Supreme Bhagavan's power. So we are actually experiencing Lord through Vaayu Bhagavaan every moment and  we should thank Bhagavaan with each breath chanting a naamam and then we will definitely very easily attain salvation.

Let us chant naamam of that Lord who is the Praanan of our Praana Vaayu along with Shri Poonthaanam and millions of other devotees around the world:

Krishna! Krishna! Mukunda! Janaardana!
Krishna! Govinda! Naaraayana! Hare!
Achyuthaananda! Govinda! maadhava!
Sachindaananda! Naaraayana! Hare!