re: all powerful naaraayaNa

[Guest guest]

Sri Madhavakkannan has nicely put it by saying "it is not that such events/

acts please him. It is our getting excited in praising him and in mentioning

of such acts please him", in his write up.

 

I wish to add this small write up. This is not about that "Adult" Raaman

doing heroic deeds of killing that demon raavaNan, which has no parallel to

be mentioned as "rama ravaNayor yudhdham rama ravanayOr yudhdhamiva" and to

get that praise "kiLLic kaLainthaanai" from aaNdaaL. It was such an easy act

for raama to do that "kiLLi".

 

But this one is a childish act, but the impact is very great. He is able to

penetrate that hardest of all that hardest substances available in the

world, called my mind.

 

See this person making a mention

 

Vanthu kEtpaar illaiyO- en manamaanathai Oru siruvan

Vanthu vaari veNNai ena vizhunkuraan idhai (vanthu)

 

Eh! Is there nobody to come and ask? Here, One small boy comes and consumes

my mind [or heart?] like how the butter is consumed [so smoothly,

comfortably, and nicely with absolute easiness]

 

Nandhagopan thanakkuch chellap piLLai aanaal

Nadanthathu ennamO naLLiravu koLLai

Intha azhagil vERu peNgaLudan scaLLai

EnnamO pO en manam thaan pOguthu koLLai koLLai (vanthu)

 

Eh! To identify him, it is easy, he was the pet child of King nandhagopa.

But what happened was a burglary at the dead of the night. It did not just

end with that burglary here. He also picked up quarrel with other gopis. Oh!

Somehow I am losing all my prestige honour pride etc in his stealing of my

heart.

 

Vanthu pirakkum munnE maaman kaaththirunthaan

Manamaarap peRRavanO dhaththu thanthirunthaan

Vantha idaththil annai kattip pOttirunthaal- athai

Vaddiyum mudhalumaai pazhi vaanga vanthaan (vanthu)

 

Before he was born his uncle was waiting [to kill him]. The father who had

the satisfaction of having gotten such a child, in fact, had given that

child in adoption to some other person. This child was tied with ropes by

his own mother, in the new place where he was given in adoption. Finally

what he did was a revenge for all these acts, by conquering every thing

including my mind [heart].

 

Kaanak kuzhal onRu kannak kOl aachchu

Kannam vaiththa idam kaadhugal aachchu

Aana kaaval ainthum aadarangam aachchu

AnthO anthO en manam ellaam koLLai koLLaiyayp pOchchu (vanthu)

 

Eh! He had a small bamboo stick picked from the forest {kanam is also

forest} which he used as a musical instrument (gaana kuzhal). But suddenly

it had become the kannak kOl- to steal my mind or heart- {this kannak kOl is

an iron tool used to make holes in the walls of buildings, to enable easy

robbery / stealing in those days}. He did that act of kannam viz. made holes

in the walls-walls of my body- these holes were named the ears to receive

his music. These five watchmen called the senses were transformed into the

drama stage to receive his music thus helping him to steal my mind. Oh! Oh!

the whole of my mind [or heart] had been robbed by that child.

 

Oh! What a stealing! That all powerful naaraayaNaa can do any thing perhaps

with tools or without tools.

 

What we can we do is nothing, except praise him and sing his glory as stated

by Sri MadhavakkaNNan.

 

Dasan Vasudevan M.G.

 

Ps: this krithi is in raaga maalikai by Ooththukkaadu swami- raagas being

hindholam, ataaNaa and bilahari.