nAcciyAr tirumozhi V- kuyil kUvudal 10

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SrI:

SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

nAcciyAr tirumozhi V- kuyil kUvudal

pASuram 5.10 (fifth tirumozhi - pAsuram 10 anRu ulagam

aLandAnai ugandu)

 

 

A. Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

I am longing to do kaimkaryam for the lord who measured

the three worlds, but He is plotting against my wishes.

When I am already suffering from this pain, this sweet

breeze and the rays of the full moon enter inside

me and torture me even more. I do not understand the

logic of this added suffering. Oh cuckoo! You are my

well-wisher; please do not stay in this grove and keep

torturing me; I have already become so thin from my

love. If you do not call my Sriman nArAyaNan today, I

will drive you away from this grove.

 

anRu ulagam aLandAnai ugandu aDimaik

kaN avan vali Seyya

tenRalum ti~ngaLum UDaruttu ennai

naliyum uRaimai aRiyEn

enRum ik kAvil irundu ennait

tagarttAdE nIyum kuyilE!

inRu nArAyaNanai varak kUvAyEl

i~nguRRu ninRum turappan

 

B. Some additional thoughts (from SrI PVP):

 

All her sAma, dAna, bhEda upAyams do not bear fruit with

the kuyil; now godai tries daNDam (punishment); she says

"if you do not do what I say, I will drive you out of

the grove".

 

anRu ulagam aLandAnai ugandu: He is so full of compassion

that He placed His divine feet on the heads of even those

who did not love Him. His compassion is like that of a

mother who feeds her baby even if it is sleeping and does

not know that it needs to be fed.

 

aDimaik-kaN vali Seyya - The kind of kaimkaryam that

ANDAL wants to perform to bhagavAn is not any ordinary

kind of kaimkaryam; this is the kaimkaryam that will keep

ANDAL alive, and the absence of which will take away her

life.

 

tenRalum tingaLum UDaruttu: As if it is not enough that

ANDAL has been denied the kaimkarya bhAgyam by BhagavAn,

this tenRal (sweet breeze) and tingaL (moon) are adding

to her misery. ANDAL laments why the tenRal and

ti~ngaL don't even know a quarter (kAl) of what she has

missed by way of not getting bhagavAn with the great

Feet (kAl) that measured the three worlds. The action

of the breeze and the moon are like that of rAvaNa who

separated rAma and sItA and thus made her undergo great

suffering and agony. She can't understand their behavior

especially because the moon and breeze are created by

bhagavAn and so are like her own children, and so it is their

duty to unite her with bhagavAn rather than make this

separation more unbearable. The son of vaYu (breeze),

that is mAruti, went as a kind messenger between perumAL

and pirATTi. ANDAL does not even see a quarter (kAl vASi)

of the compassion the son had, in this breeze.

 

That the cool breeze is but a torture to separated

lovers is obvious when rAma tells lakshmaNa:

 

padma sougandhi kavaham Sivam SOka vinASanam |

dhanyA lakshmaNa! SevantE pampOpavana mArutam ||

(kishkindA 1.105)

 

"Oh lakshmaNa! Only bhAgyavAns will enjoy this pure

breeze which brings the sweet smell of the lotus

flowers, and which comes floating over the groves in

the banks of pampA river". rAma, when He was separated

from pirATTi could not bear the breeze and felt tortured.

 

enRum ik kAvil irundu ennait tagarttAdE nIyum kuyilE!

Breeze will blow only sometimes. The moon appears only

sometimes in the night. So, they torture ANDAL only

some of the times. But, the cuckoo is in the grove with

ANDAL day and night and so causes her pain always.

 

i~nguRRu ninRum turappan: ANDAL will not be forcibly

driving the cuckoo away from the grove. All she is saying

is that she will lose her life if she is not united with

bhagavAn, and there will be no one to protect the grove and

the cuckoo will be forced to leave.

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari