nAcciyAr and SrImad bhAgavatam

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Dear bhakti members!

 

I was reading nAcciyAr tirumozhi - karuppUram nArumo and was impressed with

the seventh slokam:

 

sengamala nAN_malar mEl tEn ugarum annam pOl

sengaN karumEni vAsudEvanudaiya

am_kaittalam ERi annavaSam Seyyum

sangaraiyA! un selvam sAla azhagiyadE

 

(my rough traslation: The white swan tastes the nectar on the just

blossomed lotus flower; just like that, O pAncajanyamE! you, who is the

best of all sankhams, get on to the beautiful hand of vAsudEva, who has

red eyes and dark tirumEni; your wealth is the greatest.)

 

Two days back, I happened to listen to srI krishNapremi's bhAgavatam

upanyAsam (tape), where he was describing a similar comparison. In SrImad

bhAgavatam first skandam, adhyAyam 11, slokam 2, sage vyAsar says:

 

sa uccakASE dhavaLOdara: darOpi urukramsYa adhara SONa SONimA |

dAdhmAyamAna: karakancasampuTe yathAbjashaNdE kaLahamsa utsvana: ||

 

(Even though the sankham that vAsudEva blows has a

whiteness in the middle, it gets a redness from vAsudEva's red lips and

shines on the lotus-like hand like the rAja hamsam that hums amidst lotus

flowers.)

 

Thus both in nAcciyAr tirumozhi and in SrImad bAghavatam, vAsudEva's hand is

compared to the lotus flower and the white sankham is compared to a

beautiful white annam.

 

I thought I will share my anubhavam of these passages with you all.

 

adiyEn,

kalyani Krishnamachari