The New Year and "tiruppAvai"
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• January 2, 2000
Friends, This New year's Eve, it was particularly meaningful to recite the verse of the day -- the 16th verse of the 'tiruppAvai' wherein the line "mani-kathavam tAl tira-vAy..." seemed to carry more than the usual significance. To see the whole world waiting with bated breath for the stroke of midnight on Dec 31, 1999, it seemed as though all humanity was waiting for some Great Doorway of Time to open out to a new millennium, a New Age! At that precise instant, AndAl's expression "manikathavam-tAl tiravAy..." seemed to resonate through the air inside one's heart ("hrdaya-AkAsa") like a distant temple bell tolling the break of a new dawn... And immediately after the final moment of the old millennium had chimed away and the New Year was born, it was equally dramatic and appropriate to open with the first line of the 17th verse: "ambaramE tannirE sOrE aram ceyyum...", the lines in which our "pirAtti" clearly showed that of all virtues that most contribute to human happiness and brotherhood, it is the virtue of "charity" ("aram-ceyyum") that is supreme! In the New Millennium, may we all "give" freely of each other's love and goodness in abundant charity to one another! dAsan, Sampathkumaran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com
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