thirup pAvai - part 26 - kumaran and singam

January 7, 1999

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Dear bAgawathAs,

Prior to going into the next line we have to pause and

enjoy the "kavi nayam" of ANDAL. She addressed her bridegroom in

two different ways. Why would she address HIM as "nandagOpan's

kumaran" and "yasOdhai ilam singam"? It is said that every time

Sri Krishna does any "mischief" and then the Aychiyars make a

complaint to the Father. When the Father enquires with HIM, it

seems SriKrishna will pretend to be a very innocent person and

will swear that HE didnot do anything wrong. While doing HE will

maintian all protocols and respects. (remember Father is the

AchAryA sthAnam). So his Father will be impressed with all these

and ignore all the complaints and feel proud of HIS son. Father

Son relationship is something unique (as similar to AchAryA

ShishyAL relationship) that one can only understad this by going

through this. Due to this extraordinary relationship the Lord

is addressed as "nandagOpan kumaran".

When the Aaychiyars come and lodge a protest to yasOdhai

it seems yasOdhai will want to severly punish him. But Lord will

get "angry" with her and will jump on her as similar to a "lion"

having its "seeRRam". In this episode it is said that our Lord

thus reacts differently to the mother and hence HE is addressed

as "yasOdhai ilam singam". ie The Lord reacts as a "kumaran" to

His Father (AchAryA) and behaves like a "singam" to HIS mother.

The AchArya thatthuvam and mantra upadEsam have been dealt

in the previous postings. The inner meaning of current line is

one of the end result of the mantra siddhi discussed earlier. ie

"prathayakasha darshanam" or nEtra darsanam. Prior to discussing

that we will deal the meanings of the tamil words used in this

line.

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

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