Kanthar Anubhuti - verse 1

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Transliteration:

 

 

aadum parivEl aNi sEvalena— ,

paadum paNiyE paNiyaa aruLvaay

thEdum kayamaa mukanai cheruvil,

saadum thani yaanai sahoTharanE. 1

 

 

Meaning:

 

 

The dancing Peacock, Vel, and the beautiful Cock

Thus, to sing, grant me this service as my holy task;

O Brother of Vinayaka peerless! Who in battle kills,

The searching Asura, Gajamukha, with face elephant's.

 

" O Lord Subramanya, the (younger) brother of the peerless Lord Sri Ganesha — who

kills in

the battle the Asura, Gajamukha, who always searches for the Devas who will face

him in

battle! Grant me as my holy task the divine Seva of singing Thy praise as, 'the

dancing

Peacock, the Vel, and the beautiful Cock.' "

 

Commentary:

KANTHAR ANUBHUTHI BEGINS WITH " OM " & " VELUM MAYILUM THUNAI "

Kanthar Anubhuthi commences with this verse. The verse begins with the word

" aadum "

which contains Akara, Ukara, and Makara, meaning " AUM/OM. " Thus, the work

commences with the OM or Pranava, the sacred mantra. Again, the first-line of

Kanthar

Anubhuthi " aadum pari vel aNiseval " has in it hidden the great mantra in Tamil,

" Velum

Mayilum Thunai, " which means " The Vel and the Peacock are (my) protection or

support. "

The prayer of Arunagirinathar is for the blessedness of constantly repeating

this great

mantra, " Om Velum Mayilum Thunai. "

 

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(the following is an incident from the introductory pages of the source web

site)

 

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....(Mr. Mudaliar) has narrated an interesting incident in his book, as follows:

 

" It was in the year 1956. An American, Mr. Edward James, was doing Devi Upasana

and had

some obstacles in his practices. He wrote from America to the revered Mudaliar

to suggest

some means to overcome the obstacles. In his reply, Sri Mudaliar hinted at the

need for

invoking Lord Ganesha's grace to overcome the obstacles and advised him to

repeat the

first verse of the Kanthar Anubhuthi (Aadumpari Vel…) together with its

Mula-Mantra and

Yantra. Mr. James acted accordingly and in about three months' time, he had a

mysterious

experience. He wrote: 'While I was thus, meditating, an elderly person, clad in

pure white

clothes and with a Kamandalu in his hand, surrounded by elephants, appeared in

my

room, and poured from his Kamandalu a little holy water into my mouth and that

of my

wife who was also in meditation. Then everything disappeared into a mass of

light. Since

then I am totally transformed and I continue my Devi Upasana without any

impediment.' "

 

 

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Courtesy: Skanadagurunatha website