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R. Skrintha • November 17, 1997 


Dear BhagavathALs,

I thank Sri Sadagopan for his lucid commentary on the impersonal use of 
"kangaL" in Sri ThiruppAn's famous lines:

  "--arangan en amudanaik 
    kaNDa kaNkaL maRRonRinaik kaaNaave."

If it intrests, a similar statement is attributed to a famous Tibetan 
Buddhist mystic Mila Repa. He suffered great bodily pains at some time & 
was asked if he felt the pain, to which he replied: "there is pain 
but I don't feel it". I think in the state of heightened Atmic awareness 
such as that in which Sri ThiruppAn was immersed, worldly consciousness 
becomes dim, and altho a vague awareness of the external world might be 
retained, it is without a concretized ego-center witnessing the said world!

Hari Om,
srikanth