Question on nAcciyAr tirumozhi VIII - viNNIla mElAppu 6 posting

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Question: wrt nAcciyAr tirumozhi VIII - viNNIla mElAppu 6

>>>>>He has totally entered into my thoughts and practically drained

>>>>>me of all my life, and I am like a viLAm-pazham

What is a viLAm-pazham??

>>>>>which has been thoroughly drained of all its inner contents by

>>>>>mosquitoes that have eaten away the inside of the fruit

>>>>>leaving only the outside shell".

Does this mean God is being anlogized to a mosquitoe???

Does the word ulan~gu have any other meanings??

Thanks

Raghu

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Dear Sri Raghu : ViLAm Pazham is called wood apple

in English .It has a hard cover like wood and in fact ,

when the contents inside are drained out , it serves as

a nice container for Sri ChUrNam and the like .

 

Ripe ViLAm Pazham has to be cracked open and

the inside contains a delightful content for

eating .Some times it is mixed with brown sugar

to enhance its natural tartish sweetness .

 

Since the skin (casing )of the wood apple fruit is so

tough , no bee or ant or any other fruit eating insect

can get in .The fruit is thus protected except from

the ulan~gu .Latter enters in its own subtle manner and

drains all the essence of the fruit and leaves only an empty

shell of a ViLAM Pazham .Although it may appear as

though the Lord is being equated here to a fruit mosquito ,

the emphasis is on the subtle ways in which the Lord as BhOkthA

( please refer to the postings of today by Sri N.KrishNamAchAri

on the Lord's naamam , BhOkthA )enjoys communion with his BhakthAs.

V.Sadagopan

 

 

At 07:51 AM 5/22/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Question: wrt nAcciyAr tirumozhi VIII - viNNIla mElAppu 6

>>>>>>He has totally entered into my thoughts and practically drained

>>>>>>me of all my life, and I am like a viLAm-pazham

>What is a viLAm-pazham??

>

>>>>>>which has been thoroughly drained of all its inner contents by

>>>>>>mosquitoes that have eaten away the inside of the fruit

>>>>>>leaving only the outside shell".

>Does this mean God is being anlogized to a mosquitoe???

>Does the word ulan~gu have any other meanings??

>Thanks

>Raghu

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