Footnote to bhishma-stuthi-15

[Guest guest]

Dear "bhakti" members,

 

I have received from a dear and respected member (who does not wish to be

known) a most precious "feed-back" --- it fills me with extreme delight and

in fact awe too !

 

He has referred to the following 2 passages from "bhishma-stuthi-15" :

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"....Psychologists have shown that the development of a child's cognitive and

discriminative faculties first begins with its ability to "mentally

perceive" objects by "naming" them. Otherwise the world of objects would

make no sense to to the tender mind of a child without "names", "names" and

"names" being taught to it ! It is with the aid of "names" that a toddler

slowly comes to terms with the external world around it."

 

".....without the aid of the Lord's many "nAmA-s" -- like

"vijaya-sakhE" in the "bhishma-stuthi" for instance -- without "nAmA-s" that

help us in realizing or "sensing" His Identity and His Reality, the world of

religious ideas or mystical experience that our great "AchAryA-s" have

created for our benefit, and which is far more complex and mysterious than

the ordinary world in which we live, would indeed appear even "darker, more

unreal, disturbing and incomprehensible" to us!!

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The dear member who wrote privately to me has suggested that the above two

passages are really "only vague echoes" of a verse from Sri.Tondar-adi-podi

Alwar's "tirumAlai" --- Verse # 11 --- and hence should carry it as a

valuable "footnote":

 

oru-villAl Ongu munnIradaithu ullangagal-uyya

cheruvilE arakkar-kOnai settra namsevakanAr

maruviya periyakOyil madhiL tiruvarangamenAk

karuvilE tiruvilAdhIr kAlatthai kazhikkinrIrE !

 

The member has pointed out to me that the words "periyakOyil mathiL

tiruvarangamenAk karuvilE tiruvilAdhIr kAlatthai kazhikkinrIrE ...."

clearly state that "one shouldn't even wait to be born as a child to recite

or utter the Holy "nAmA" of Ranga; one should proceed forthwith to do so

even while one is a "karuvi" i.e. even while one is an embryo or foetus in a

mother's womb!!".

 

I am simply amazed at this members's astute ear and sense for the "alwAr's"

real "anubhavam" !!!

 

I can never thank this gentleman enough for pointing out to me how the above

two passages of mine in my own post are really "only vague echoes" of what

our great Saint Tondar-adi-podi sang many centuries ago !!

 

Sir, I simply admire you and take my hat off to you !!!

 

One little "feed-back" like the one given me now is enough !! It will keep

me going in my efforts for many, many days !!

 

Thank you, indeed, very, very much !!

 

adiyEn/dAsan

sudarshan