thirup pAvai - part 27 - "kArmEni"

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thirup pAvai - part 27 - "kArmEni"

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

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.

 

It is important to know the gunams or characters of the

bridegroom. It is also important to have a glimpse of HIS

physical appearance. In olden days the woman will not directly

look into the eyes of the bridegroom prior to marriage. However

the friends or "thozhis" of the bride will tell her all about

the enchanting beauty of the bride groom. ANDAL expresses here

such beauty of the "bride groom" (the Lord), after narrating

about HIS elegibilities through the word "iLam singam" earlier.

 

The tamil word "kAr" means karumai or that which is

black. The word kAr is derived from "karumAi". However the word

"kAr" also is referred to the clouds or mEham. The clouds are so

dark and black in their color that the word "karumai" or "black"

is itself derived from this. ie., the clouds made ilakkanam for

the color black. However there are several clouds that are out

and up there that one may want to know. It is important to know

about clouds as the reference to clouds here directly points to

one of the most important kalyAna gunam of the Lord. The clouds

are made of millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals in

the air. There are several kinds of clouds. The highest clouds

where the air is made of ice crystals is called "cirrus" clouds.

The largest clouds are called "cumulonimbus" or "thunder" clouds.

These largest clouds bring rains. There are other clouds that

are silvery in their color and are known as cumulus and stratus.

 

The cloud referred here is the tropical cloud known as

thunder cloud. We will deal more of this in "Azhi mazhai" patham.

This is the largest of all the clouds and contains millions of

water droplets in it. It is also darkest and black in color. Our

Lord Sri krishnan is also dark in color as similar to this color.

This patham reminds one of "pacchai mA malai pOl mEni" of

thondar adip podi AzwAr, ie., the "green" color that is

referred for "pasumai" in Lord Sri RanganAtha's thirumEni

and the "kulircchi" (cooling nature) that the "green" color

will bring into one's eyes when they look at the greenary. In

this reference the tamil word "kAr" referring to the thirumEni

of Lord Sri Krishna is referring to his "neermai" gunam at the

inner level. ie As similar to clouds being made of several

millions of water droplets, or kAr mEni of Lord Sri Krishna is

also referred to as one that is embodiement of several millions kalyAna

gunAs. The another meaning is the nature of this "kAr

mEni is to represent a heavy down pour of rains. The rain is

often referred to "karuNai" or mercy and that the Lord who is

addressed as kAr mEni is an embodiment of "karunai" as well. In

addition the reference to clouds always mean the nature of

their content "water" or "neer" ie., HE is so easy to obtain

as similar to obtaining water, ie., He is "sowlabyan". The word neermai

refers to several other pathams as well.

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

 

note: I was attending the "adyOyana sevai" at Aurora Sri

Venkateswara temple Chicago, (dec 29- jan 3) at the request of

Sri Ragavan and Smt Chitra, Smt and Sri Krishnaswamy of Chicago

and was hosted by Smt and Sri Krishnamchari. The last one week adiyEn

faced with severe challenges due to nature's fury (28

inches of snow! both in Chicago and enroute to Annarbor and at

AnnArbor) and was unable to post this from 1st Jan to 6 Jan

due to logistics. adiyEn apologises for the interruptions.

adiyEn has received numerous mails from here and from India

requesting to continue this effort on thirup pAvai. It will

take a few years to do it. adiyEn will try my best to attempt

it and pray to Lord Sri Ranganatha and Sri Krishna and Sri

ANDAL to help us in this endeavour.

 

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