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a paasuram from 2'nd thiruvandhAdhi

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vtriplic • Tue Mar 12 2002 - 20:58:57 PST 


kaaNa kazhi kaadhal kaimikkuk kaattinaal
  naaNappadum enRaal naaNumO ? -- pENik 
  karu maalaip pon mEni kaattaamun kaattum
  thirumaalai nangaL thiru.


This paasuram is the 56'th in iraNdaam thiruvandhAdhi. It is quite 
interesting. 
I used to think mudhal AzhvAr's pAsurams are more param and vyUham 
centric. But 
this pAsuram beautifully expresses the sowlabhyam and that too of 
thAyAr! The
alliteration in the first two lines is very interesting and the 
simple conversational 
expression is beautiful!

A short meaning: Can a person overwhelmed with the true feeling of 
love, 
hesitate from expressing his feelings for fear of derision? (No. It 
wouldn't do justice to the true love. So,...) Even if the dark 
colored 
perumAL hesitates a bit to show his true glowing golden form, our 
dear 
thAyAr readily shows Him to us. 

A person shying away from expressing his true love is shown as an 
example to compare with any little hesitation on the part of the 
perumAL. The rhetoric question posed in the first two lines is 
answered interestingly by the role of thAyAr who shows Him to us even 
before he does. 

Why would perumAL hesitate, even a bit, to show his true golden form? 
As explained  
in the sri vachana bhUshaNam(*),  He is contemplating what form He 
can take to show Himself to us... If He shows His true viswaroopam, 
can we, with our mortal eyes, even take a glimpse?
(* kaN kaaNa nNiRkil aaNaiyittu vilakkuvaar_kaLenRu kaNNukku 
thORRaathapati)

kazhi kAdhal - great love
kaimikku - gone out of hands / uncontrollable
kANa - to see
kAttinAl - if shown
nAnappadum enRAl nANumO? - would one hesitate for fear of derision? 
(No)

karu mAlaip - dark mountainlike
pon mEni kAttA mun - before He shows his true golden form
pENi - sweet / lovely
nangaL thiru - our dear thAyAr
thirumAlaik kAttum - will show thirumAl

adiyEn
-Viji
(Vijay Triplicane)






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