Since it is a madal, acharyas suggest that Azhwar was in his Nayaki mode right from the beginning. There is another school of thought which suggests that the Nayaki mode starts from the below portion. Lets jump right in...
Parakala Nayaki (actually a gopika who wants to enjoy குடமொடு கூத்தன் ) says the following:
Please listen beautiful damsels (with young breasts!!!) as to what happened to me! I had dressed up like this. Made up my beautiful black hair into a bun, wore tight Kachai around my brilliant breasts, wearing a beautiful chain with precious stones, wore mascara around my beautiful black eyes and was playing with a ball. At that time, with beautiful red eyes like a lotus in water, to the happiness of the folks around the world, with drums playing (பறை ).. திருமால் .... was juggling the two குடங்கள் and dancing, challenging everyone. Seeing this all the young girls and their mothers asked me "why are you not joining" and forced me to go. When I went I lost my bangles and the blue color (from a previous experience with the lord) and basically lost my mind.
Playing ball refers to Azhwar suggesting that he was involved in worldy pleasures and others are troubling him by trying to get him involved in பகவத் விஷயம். :-). The bouncing ball refers to the jeevathma bouncing between the worlds (சுவர்க்கம் / நரகம்) due to karma bondage.
The constant reference to breasts may seem a little off but this has significance from Azhwar's point of view. Acharyas commentary refers to this analogy as follows: From a pure Nayaka/Nayaki கூடல் perspective, this is an object that facilitates the அனுபவம் . From a jeevathma's perspective in its கூடல் with Paramathma, this refers to பக்தி without which this cannot happen. Breasts are allegory for Bakthi. There are deeper definitions for Bakthi. For simplicity of understanding lets use the standard definition of "matured knowledge" here.
Azhwar even says it was bad times (வல் வினை ) for him as he was forced by the other ladies to go and meet the lotus eyed Thirumal and had to leave behind all the games and worldly enjoyment!! The Nayaki suffers from காம நோய் and the she is unable to listen to anyone.
Thats when her mother comes for help
Stage set for the enormous, powerful spirit possessing Nayaki.
Parakala Nayaki (actually a gopika who wants to enjoy குடமொடு கூத்தன் ) says the following:
Please listen beautiful damsels (with young breasts!!!) as to what happened to me! I had dressed up like this. Made up my beautiful black hair into a bun, wore tight Kachai around my brilliant breasts, wearing a beautiful chain with precious stones, wore mascara around my beautiful black eyes and was playing with a ball. At that time, with beautiful red eyes like a lotus in water, to the happiness of the folks around the world, with drums playing (பறை ).. திருமால் .... was juggling the two குடங்கள் and dancing, challenging everyone. Seeing this all the young girls and their mothers asked me "why are you not joining" and forced me to go. When I went I lost my bangles and the blue color (from a previous experience with the lord) and basically lost my mind.
Playing ball refers to Azhwar suggesting that he was involved in worldy pleasures and others are troubling him by trying to get him involved in பகவத் விஷயம். :-). The bouncing ball refers to the jeevathma bouncing between the worlds (சுவர்க்கம் / நரகம்) due to karma bondage.
The constant reference to breasts may seem a little off but this has significance from Azhwar's point of view. Acharyas commentary refers to this analogy as follows: From a pure Nayaka/Nayaki கூடல் perspective, this is an object that facilitates the அனுபவம் . From a jeevathma's perspective in its கூடல் with Paramathma, this refers to பக்தி without which this cannot happen. Breasts are allegory for Bakthi. There are deeper definitions for Bakthi. For simplicity of understanding lets use the standard definition of "matured knowledge" here.
Azhwar even says it was bad times (வல் வினை ) for him as he was forced by the other ladies to go and meet the lotus eyed Thirumal and had to leave behind all the games and worldly enjoyment!! The Nayaki suffers from காம நோய் and the she is unable to listen to anyone.
Thats when her mother comes for help
Stage set for the enormous, powerful spirit possessing Nayaki.
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ReplyDeleteSince you are reading and studying the whole part, you can grasp, understand and explain the nuances of Azhwars' mind!
ReplyDeleteI am lost as such but your explanation or commentary seems to be justified to a lay man like, me...
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