aiyO!

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Sri:

 

Dear Sri Sudharshan,

 

Your narration and elaboration of aiyO is excellent. aiyyyyyO!

konnutee~nga. is also another expression that we (at Madras) use, for

someone who has had a marvelous success in his endeavour.

 

Your reference to ThiruppANAzhwAr's aiyO! is not painful pleasure or

pleasurable pain. My humble opinion is that AzhwAr was simply amzed and

wonderstruck with awe at the inexplicable beauty and indesribeable

beauty of the Lord. That's why he says "aiyO! (alas! ) The Beauty has

swept me completely!.

 

On the similar token, Kambhan has composed a lovely verse on Rama's

beauty. When Rama Lakshamana and SitA were walking in the forest,

Kambhan narrates:

 

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poyyO enum idaiyALodum iLayaanodum pOnaan/

maiyO? maragadhamO? maRikadalO? mazhaimugilO?

"aiyO!" ivan azhagenaa azhiyaa azhagudaiyaan.

 

(First line.. I don't remeber).

(Rama) went with the One who has no waist (poyyO enum idaiyaaL) and His

younger one. Is He mai?- Kaajal? (maiyO?- Collyrium?) Kambhan is not

happy with that word because it just represents Rama's dark colour. So

Kambhan says MaragathamO? Is He an emerald stone? No. Not a perfect word

for Rama's beauty. maRikadalO? Is He the dark blue Ocean? A good simili.

But the Ocean is salty and is not like the sweetness of Rama's beauty.

mazhai mugilO? Is He the Dark Balck coluds? Wow! That's a lmost most

appropriate comparison for Rama's qualities as well as His lovely dark

Divine Body.. He is so mercfiul like the dark clouds and rains His mercy

on the world.

 

BUT Kambhan is still NOT satisfied. He is vexed. He is searchinh for a

good word in Tamil and is not able to find one. He raises his hands and

gives up. "aiyO! (I am helpless. I have lost!_ ivan azhagenna azhiyaa

azhagudaiyaan.... Oh No! What a beauty is he! He has unfading, eternal

Beauty!

 

aiyO! What a group I am in! aiyO! How merciful is He to put me in this

most Blessed group!

 

Narayana Narayana

 

Narayana dAsan Madhavakkannan

 

 

 

----Original Message Follows----

"sudarshan madabushi" <sudarshanm

"aiyO!" and the AzhwAr

Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:23:35 PST

 

bhakti

 

 

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