Kanthar Anubhuthi - verse 27

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Transliteration:

 

minnE nikar vaazhvai virumbiya yaan,

ennE viThiyin payan ing— ithuvO

ponnE maNiyE poruLE aruLE,

mannE mayil ERiya vaanavanE. 27

 

Meaning:

 

 

Lo, lightning-like life I eagerly covet!

Why so? Is it so here due to my bad fate?

O Gold! O Gem! O Verity! O Grace-Embodiment!

O King! O Peacock-riding Providence Great!

 

" O Lord, Who art rare like Gold, Who shinest like a Gem, who art the

Supreme Reality, Who art an embodiment of Grace and Compassion, the

(Eternal) King, the Great One that ridest on the peacock! How is it

that I eagerly hug this lightning-flash-like transitory life (taking

it as real)? Is it due to my fate that it is so here? "

 

 

 

Detailed Commentary:

 

Ignorant of the real nature of the Lord, we take this transitory

world as real and go after it, says Arunagirinathar. What is the

nature of the Lord? He is the only worthy Object; the objects of the

world are perishable. He is like gold, a rare substance which has

intrinsic worth, which is self-shining and lasting. He is self-

luminous like the gem Carbuncle. He is the Supreme Reality, the

source of everything. Above all, He is an embodiment of compassion,

a mass of love, a concrete form of grace. He is the eternal King of

the Universe, as against the finite nature of the things of the

world. He rides on the fast-moving divine peacock, to confer His

blessings on devotees, instantaneously.

 

Life is transitory

This life is transitory. Everything here is passing. Change is the

character of this world. Like a lightning-flash life comes and goes.

Ere it is perceived, the lightning vanishes. So uncertain is life.

Now it is, and now it disappears. Even this short, uncertain life is

full of pain, suffering, and anxiety at every stage. Persons and

things are seen to pass away, daily, before our very eyes, yet we

cling to them in the vain hope of getting enjoyment from them. This

body of ours is itself evanescent and the things of the world are

also perishable; either we may pass away at any moment or the things

may leave us without notice. Yet the delusion for them does not

leave us! " Why is it so? " wonders Arunagirinathar and adds that it

might be due to our fate.

 

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