AlamAmaraththinilai mElorubAlakanAy
gnyAlamEzhumuNdAn arangaththaravinaNaiyAn
kOlamAmaNiyAramum muththuththAmamum mudivillathOrezhil
neelamEniaiyo niRaikoNda thennenjinaiyE

Meaning:
He who was (lying as) a small child on a leaf of the giant banyan tree and swallowed all seven worlds, and who is lying on the sweet bed of Adisesha, His blue colored (dark) divine body without par in its beauty and with the beautiful and special gemmed garlands and pearl necklaces has alas, stolen the completeness of my heart.

Essence:
His divine body and its color has brought everything with it and stolen Azhvar's heart.
Azhvar had said that his mind had been made a fool by His eyes (kaNkaLennaip pEthamai seythanavE) in the previous song. His eyes which are like the arrows of Sri Rama are showing no mercy on Azhvar (kadaikkaNennum siRaikkOlAl nenjooduravavEvuNdu nilaiyunthaLarnthu naivEnai). Seeing that, His divine body is showing the beauty coming from the combination of the different parts and the ornaments plus its own beauty, to Azhvar.
Azhvar was like a person who wears different flowers separately and now His body is making a person who wears a garland made of all kinds of flowers.
His divine body is gathering all its multiple beauties and falling on Azhvar like a king who gathers all his armies and falls on his enemies.
Azhvar is stating that his heart got caught in that beauty and is now destroyed.
In the fifth song, Azhvar had said that He had removed his karmAs such that they will not come back. In the eighth song, he said that He ripped to shreds the avidhyA that is the source of these karmAs, like He shredded that Hiranya who was the physical form of the thamO guNAs. The following quetion then arose: if one looks at this world, it is one that covers everyone with the darkness of ignorance (iruLtharumAgnyAlam) and would do that even to Him (who is from theLivisumbuth thirunAdu) were He to be born here; if one looks at time, it eventually destroys one's gnyAnam and leads to false behaviour; if one looks at the body, it hides His presence inside and creates false knowledge; if one looks at AzhvAr's birth, he was born in a class that prevented him from learning the Vedanthas from appropriate Acharyas. Thus, by this world, time, body and birth Azhvar had no opportunity to be removed of all his karmas; yet he has proclaimed that He had done that for him. Would He be able to do that for Azhvar? Azhvar answers that in this pasuram.

AlamAmaraththinilai
During the praLayam, He took the form of a small baby and kept the universe in His stomach and protected it. As that small child, He was lying on a very small and tender banyan leaf. By saying "mAmaram" Azhvar is stating the opposite; that is, the leaf is very small.
Azhvar is answering the question here, whether He could have removed Azhvar's karmas in spite of the fact that he did not have the support of this world, time, body or birth. Azhvar says to Him who could become a small child and swallow the universe, would it be such a big task to defeat Azhvar's enemies and remove his agnyAnam. It would be impossible for Azhvar to have removed the karmas himself; is there anything that is impossible for Him?

ilaimEl
He was small enough to fit into the small and tender leaf.

orubAlaganAy
He was a smaller child than even Yasoda's Krishna.
He was lying on the small leaf as a baby that has neither father nor mother.

gnyAlamEzhumuNdAn
Just like small babies tend to pick things and put them in their mouth, so did He as a baby put the seven worlds, the seven oceans surrounding them, the seven mountains supporting the worlds, and everything else in His mouth.
He kept the entire worlds in His stomach without losing their order.

arangaththaravinaNaiyAn
Just as He saved the worlds from praLayam while lying on a leaf, so is He lying in Srirangam to save everyone that is caught in the samsArap praLayam.
Just as the worlds would not survive praLayam unless they reached His stomach, samsAris would not be saved unless they see Him here.
He was lying during praLaya on the small leaf and He is lying in Srirangam for all time on Adisesha while being worshipped by Brahma and the Devas, for the protection of His devotees.

aravinaNaiyAn
His devotees would be worried that He is such a small baby and His stomach would hurt for having swallowed the universe; in order that they not be concerned He is lying in a big form as periya perumAL in periya kOil.
There may be no one to worry about Him when He is lying on the banyan leaf; here ananthan is lying as a bed to make sure that nothing comes against Him (theemugaththu nAgaNai, AngAravAramathukEttazhalumizhum poongAraravaNai).
One need not worry about Him lying on a small leaf in a huge ocean; here He is lying on thiruvananthAzhvAn.

kOlamAmaNiyAramum
He is wearing a necklace made of great gems and it is like the SriKowsthubam.
The necklace is an ornament to His divine body.
kOlam refers to Him (azhagiya maNavALan).
The necklace for His chest that is the abode of Sri.

muththuththAmam
He is wearing a necklace made of great pearls that cools His body.
The single strand, three strand, five strand and seven strand pearl necklaces.

mudivillathOrezhil
His beautiful body that is cool to the eyes and removes all difficulties.
His endless beauty.
His body that is like dark clouds and that is more beautiful than all these ornaments.
His dark blue body that gives endless beauty to the ornaments.

neelamEni
His divine body that does not need the beauty of the ornaments.
His body that gives beauty to the ornaments.

niRaikoNdathennenjinaiyE
Azhvar says that He stole the completeness of his heart.
He protected the universe from praLayam by keeping it in His stomach and yet His body has destroyed Azhvar's mind.
Azhvar's mind had been caught in the beauty of His different avayams and now His body has shown its complete beauty (made of all the avayams); Azhvar's mind which had thought it had obtained completeness before has lost it now.

aiyO
He showed Azhvar to His heart and then took over Azhvar's heart. Azhvar's heart is his tool to enjoy Him and reach Him and Azhvar is crying out because He has taken that over.

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