nAcciyAr tirumozhi X - kArkkODal pUkkAL 1

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nAcciyAr tirumozhi X - kArkkODal pUkkAL

pASuram 10.1 (tenth tirumozhi - pAsuram 1 kArkkODal pUkkAL)

 

 

kAndaL malargaLE! kaDal vaNNan enguRRAn?

 

kArkkODal pUkkAL kArkkaDal vaNNan em mEl ummaip

pOrkkOlam Seidu pOra viDuttavan enguRRAn?

ArkkO ini nAm pUSal iDuvadu aNi tuzhAit

tArkkODum ne`njam tannai paDaikka vallEn andO

 

A. Meaning from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

Oh dark-hued kArkkODal flowers! Where is my kaNNan

who has the hue of the dark ocean, and who is aiming you

at me as if you are all His warheads, by making you remind

me of Him with your dark color. Where will I go and complain

about this atrocious crime that He commits? What is the way out

for me since I keep losing myself pining over His

sugandha tuLasi mAlai?

 

B. Additional thoughts (from SrI PVP ):

 

kArkkODal pUkkAL: The word kAr can mean the

rainy season, the black color, or the greatness or

hugeness of something. When it is taken to mean the

dark color, the phrase can refer to the dark hue of the kAndaL

flowers. The dark hue of the flowers are reminding godai of His

tirumeni, and so they are torturing her by their color.

If the word is taken to mean kAr kAlam-rainy season, the

phrase can be taken to refer to the kAr kAlam in which

kaNNan was supposed to come back to godai, or the kAndaL

flowers that have flowered in the rainy season.

If kAr is taken to refer to the size, the reference is

to the huge kAndaL flowers.

 

pOrkkOlam Seidu pOra viDuttavan: Since the flowers are

reminding her of Him whichever way one looks at it,

godai now thinks that He has made them only to make

her feel miserable when she is separated from Him.

Conventionally, it is said that the purpose of giving

life to the beings in this world is so that they can

be devoted to Him and thus attain moksham. ANDAL is

beginning to feel that He created everything

in this world so that they can torture her in every

possible way. Just as the whole rAkshasa kulam became

rAmapirAn's enemy after He got separated from sItai,

the flowers, peacocks and cuckoos all became

godai's enemies when she was separated from her emperumAn.

Wherever godai looks, there are only things that torture

her more and more. At least in the case of the

clouds that tortured her (viNNIla mElAppu-nAcciyAr

tirumozhi 8), there was a chance that they might disappear

being blown away by winds. But, these flowers do not

disappear anywhere and are present everywhere.

 

pUkkAL: By their physical nature, the flowers are soft;

but their behavior towards ANDAL is quite contrary to

this nature of these flowers, and they are rough and

rude on her instead, and are cruelly torturing her.

 

kArk-kaDal vaNNan: He has the dark hue like that of

the Ocean. He can assume whatever hue He wants; why

did He choose this one in particular? Just as He

created by His own free will objects like the

kArk-kODal flowers to torture Her, ANDAL feels that

He assumed this beautiful dark-hued tirumeni also by His

own free will just to torture her.

 

em mEl: By nature, I am a naturally soft woman and

I have become so thin because of separation from Him;

I cannot even bear His coming and hugging me; I am that

weak.

 

ummai: Oh Flowers! You bear the color that seems

to be intended purely for torturing me by reminding me

of Him constantly! You are not soft like me; you are so

strong that you are capable of bringing me back to

life first from my dead state by showing me His hue, and then

torturing me by reminding me constantly of Him.

 

pOrkkOlam Seidu: Just as rAmapirAn decorated lakshmaNan

with the outfit for war prior to sending him to kill

indrajit, emperumAn seems to have decorated these flowers to

torture her and finish her off. cakravarti tirumagan sent

people to destroy those who separated Him from His lover;

this kaNNan seems to be dressing up these flowers to

destroy His own lover.

 

Seidu: Emphasizes the Creator aspect of bhagavAn; He

is the One who created everything including these flowers

and gave them their attributes such as their beautiful

hue that reminds godai of Him constantly.

kRshNa eva hi lokAnAm utpattirapi cApyayah |

kRshNasya hi kRte bhUtam idam viSvam carAcaram ||

BhAra. SabhA. 38.23.

 

kRshNa is the One who is the Creator, Protector and

Destroyer of this Universe; all things that move and don't

move are created for His pleasure.

 

pOra viDuttavan: Thinking that these flowers are not fast

enough in destroying her, godai feels that He is standing

behind them and goading them to be faster. When kings

attack their enemies' forts, if their warriors fail to

fell those forts, they will send their paraphernalia

like umbrella, cAmaram etc. to the battle front and instill

encouragement in their warriors to succeed in the battle and

fell the enemies' forts. Similarly, as an encouragement to

these flowers to destroy her fast, He seems to have given

His hue to them. If He didn't create these flowers to torture

her, He could have at least stopped them from appearing in

her sight!

 

e`nguRRAn: Where is He?. Why is godai asking this question

to the flowers? Because she suspects that He is standing

behind them and goading them. Their strength and power in

torturing her clearly indicate to her that these flowers

are not alone in their action, and are backed by some

power much stronger than them. When vAli heard the

loud noise made by sugrIva backed by rAma, he immediately

realized that sugrIva's voice was not cowardly as it used

to be before. This indicated to him right away that

sugrIva has someone to back him up, and he came out hoping

to meet someone that can be a match to him.

Godai could similarly guess that someone is behind these

flowers in their act of destroying her.

 

Why is she asking them where He is, when she knows He is

out to destroy her? Her secret wish is that if they are

anyway going to destroy her, she will at least get to see

Him once before she gets destroyed by these flowers. And if

she sees Him, her desire gets fulfilled. If she dies after

she sees Him, His desire also gets fulfilled.

 

Why is godai asking the acetana vastu where He is? godai

hopes that they might respond to her question feeling sorry for

her pitiable state. Is this ever heard of, namely, someone

addressing the acetana vastu and asking questions like this?

In rAmAyaNam AraNya kANDam 49-32, sIta prays to godAvari

river to please tell rAma that rAvaNa is taking her -

 

hamsakAraNDavAkIRNAm vande godAvarIm nadIm |

kshipram rAmAya Samsa tvam sItAm harati rAvaNah ||

 

ArkkO ini nAm pUSal iDuvadu: The flowers are not responding.

She does not realize that the flowers are not equipped to

respond to her query. She thinks that the reason why they

are not responding is because they are on His side. He

created them and they are not in her favor.

They are also slaves of His like she is, and they could

have helped and cooperated with her, but this is not

happening. Now, who else can she go to and complain?

 

aNi tuzhAit tArkkODum ne`njam tannai paDaikka vallEn

andO: ANDAL wonders aloud: While He and these flowers which

are His creations and belongings team together to destroy

me, my mind which belongs to me could cooperate with me

in defending me. But alas! It just melts away in pursuit

of Him and runs after the tiruttuzhAi mAlai that He wears on

His tirumEni.

 

ne`njam tanniap paDaikka vallEn - It is my sin that I

have the manas-mind that runs after Him like this

when He does not care for me. At least I could have got

a body that does not house this kind of manas but then

again, I am the one who did the karma that ended up with this

body so this again is sadly my own creation.

 

andO: He is not for me; His Greatness and Glory are

not for me; Even I am not for myself; I am such a

sinner that even my mind is not for myself; there is no

one to even look at me and say alas, saying

thus, godai ends up self-pitying ayyO.

 

C. Additional thoughts from SrI PBA:

 

Not only are all things that are created by His Glory

not supporting godai, but even her own self, her own

mind is not helping her; instead, it is going after

Him unceasingly. emperumAN's separation from godai

is intolerable to her; yet, her mind runs only towards

bhagavad vishayam; that is the aRuLic ceyal of godai

in this pASuram.

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

kalyANi kRshNamAcAri

 

 

 

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