krishna the mother 2

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Post 2

Dear SrivaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

 

We saw two beautiful verses of krishNa the mother and krishNa the

child – common thread between these two is feeding the child with

milk. In one we are the children, in the other we are the mothers,

the roles get reversed. Now a question arises - In both cases,

1. Is it that the milk is important or

2. That action of feeding the child is important or

3. That thread of `love' between Krishna and we, or ourselves is

important?

 

Perhaps for the best answer, I seek your help. Or I will leave it to

your good judgment to find the best answer.

 

Now let us analyse the lines of Bharathi -

 

uNNa uNNath thevittaadhE – ammai uyir enum mulaiyinil uNarvu enum

paal.

vaNNam uRa vaiththu enakkE en than vaayinil koNdu oottum Or vaNmai

udaiyaaL

 

kaNNan enum peyar udaiyaaL – ennaik katti niRai vaan enum than kaiyil

aNaiththu

maN enum than madiyil vaiththE – pala maayam uRum kadhai solli manam

kaLippaaL.

 

That word vaNNam has more than one meaning

– vaNNam is niRam - colour.

– vaNNam is azhagu - mean beauty

– vaNNam is ozhungu - means regularity

 

That word

vaNmai means vaLLal thanmai

vaNmai – means eegai

– kEtkaamalE dhaanamaaga kodukkum thanmai - the character of

giving - giving without asking

Dear - is it dhayaa – is it vaathsalyam – is it kaaruNyam? In

Sanskrit what it is?

 

Let us not worry about the wordplay – just relish krishNa the mother

feeding me - the child - with milk. That is all.

 

See that `enakkE' – aaNdaal said `naaraayaNanE namakkE paRai

tharuvaan [1st] – unakkE naam aatcheivOm –[29th]'. See that

royal `we' – `naam' and `namakkE'. He that supreme has become

singular – tharuvaan – unakku.

Similarly here poet bharathi says `enakkE' – that emphasis on `kE'-

the Ekaaram – the power behind that Ekaaram shows the great extent of

that basic belief on krishNa.

 

In that `ennaik katti – than kaiyil aNaiththu - madiyil vaiththu –

manam kaLippaL' – oh –enjoy the words – relish and see the amount of

caring

– chain me in that loop

– of her hands – then embrace with hands

– place in the lap

– be mentally happy.

 

Relish slowly that enjoyment of krishNa the mother - in my mental

world - me as the child -

§ caressing the child,

§ looping with hands,

§ placing gently the child on her lap

§ explicitly showing the internal happiness

mother only can do all that

– krishNa the universal mother – me the `care-less' `care free' child

in the lap of my mother krishNa.

 

Here krishNa does all that besides feeding. Oh what a rich verse.

 

perhaps that uchchi muhardhal of the child – smelling the kapOlam -

top of head – is missed by the poet - may be grammatically could not

be accommodated to suit the chandham, edugai, mOnai, etc. So left

out.

 

or is it that - as said in the other song uchchi thanai mugharnthaal

garuvam Ongi vaLarudhadee – if the smelling of top is done, the pride

grows rapidly for the mother – so left out – pride not to be shown

now, for child is being fed – when mother feels proud same will be

fed to child via that breast milk. That is not good for child's

mental health.

 

[please recall lines of chinnam chiRu kiLiyE kaNNamma another famous

song by same bhaarathi].

 

By just saying `vaan enum kai' and `maN enum madi' of that krishNa,

author places us on an elevated platform - to think on that krishNa's

thrivikrama svaroopam – his visva roopam – but coming as mother to

feed me, the child, her child

– that visva roopam to his arjuna

– or as child `maNNaith thinRu vaayinuL vaiyam' – eating earth

and showing world in the mouth - to mother yasOdha – vaiyam kaNdaaL

– to maarkaNdEya – aalin yilai meL oru baalakanaai gnaalaM

Ezhum uNdaan.

 

agRe samagrayathi kaamapi kElilakshmeem

anyaasu dhikshvapi vilOchanam Eva saakshee |

haa hantha hastha pathha dhooram ahO kim Ethath

aaseeth kisOramayam amba jagathrayam mE – 1-60 krishNa karNaamrutham

 

Is it that is mother krishNa or child krishNa? Am I the mother or am

I the child? Or some times this sometimes that?

oh – yes - we have another krithi also where krishNa is the child –

and me the mother to feed that child krishNa - missed that in the

emotions of this verse and enjoying krishNa the mother.

 

Can we see it next post. With your permission to leave at this stage –

to allow you to relish the great verse slowly and its meanings.

 

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g.

 

PS: on the slOkam of krishNa karnaamrutham also we will see in next

post. Those who can understand Sanskrit please do enjoy the link.