[sri ramanuja] A Peep into Periya Thirumozhi 287

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THE REAL TIME BURGLARY

 

Can you imagine a thing getting burgled just when it is being prepared/made?

 

Impossible, one may say. Not really, one may exclaim.

 

When YasOdhap pirATTi churns out butter from the milk, this lad hides behind her shadow and starts pilfrering the most favoured item, the butter right when it is prepared.

 

That He also breaks the butter pot later is a well known fact.

 

This is why Thirumangai AzvAr not just mentions that

Sri KrshNA not just steals the butter , but steals the

'churn butter'

 

'kaDai veNNei' pukku vuNNa

 

'pUnkOthai Aichi ..kadai veNNEi pukkuNNa' 10-5-1 of Thirumozhi

 

SvAmi Periaya vAchAn piLLai's vyAkyanam highlights this point

'kadaindhu thiratti sEamithu vaithAl kaLavu kANgai anRikkEA-kaDaigiRa pOdhEa nizhalil odhungi

kaLavu kaNDayiRru amudhu seivadhu'

Instead of stealing the butter after it is being prepared and stored, Sri KrshNA steals it just as and when it is prepared.

 

That is indeed real time burglary

 

dasan

vanamamalai padmanabhan