பவ மற்றவர்
தவமுற்றவர்
அவ மற்றவர்
சிவமுற்றவர்
pava maṟṟavar
tavam uṟṟavar
ava maṟṟavar
sivam uṟṟavar
“Bhava—others.
Those who have attained/fulfilled tapas (austerity).
Ava—others.
Those who have attained/fulfilled Śiva.”
If read as a compounded, space-less Siddhar phrasing:
“Those who are without bhava (worldly becoming/samsāric bondage) are the ones who have ripened/fulfilled tapas.
Those who are without avam (blemish, disgrace, fault) are the ones who have ripened/fulfilled Śiva.”
The verse is intentionally elliptical and can be read as a classification or as a compressed cause–result teaching.
1) In a Siddhar/Śaiva frame, **bhava** points to “becoming”: the chain of birth, karma, and identifications that keep consciousness moving outward. To be “without bhava” (if the compound reading is intended) is to be free of that momentum—no longer driven by the push of desire and fear. Such a person is described as one who has **tapas** “ripened” (முற்றவர்): not merely someone who performs austerities externally, but one in whom tapas has become an inner transformative heat—discipline, yogic “fire,” and matured steadiness.
2) **avam** in Tamil commonly denotes blemish, shame, fault, or a degraded state. To be “without avam” implies purified conduct and mind—freedom from moral/psychic stain and the humiliation of bondage. Only then is one said to have **Śiva** “ripened/fulfilled” (சிவமுற்றவர்): not simply devotion to Śiva, but a consummation where Śiva-nature is realized as one’s own ground (a Śaiva form of liberation/identity).
The repeated word **முற்றவர்** (“ripened,” “completed,” “brought to full attainment”) suggests maturity rather than a single event—attainment as fruition. The cryptic parallelism implies that liberation is not a social label (“others”) but a change of state: reduction of bhava/impurity and the ripening of tapas culminating in Śiva-realization.