Kanthar Anubhuthi - verse 32

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Transliteration:

 

kalaiyE pathaRi— kathaRi thalaiyudu,

alaiyE padumaaR— athuvaay vidavO

kolaiyE puri vEdar kula— pidithOy,

malaiyE malai kooRidu vaakaiyanE. 32

 

Meaning:

 

Excitedly screaming the scriptures, and in the intellect

Waves of confusion to dash, am I to become that?

O Embracer of the hunter-caste she-elephant!

O Mountain-rending valorous Lord! O Skanda, the Great!

 

" O Lord Skanda, Who art Great like a mountain, Who embraced the

female-elephant (Valli Devi) of the cruel hunter-caste, Who cleft

the Krauncha-mountain (with Thy Vel) and Who wearest the victory-

garlands! Screaming the scriptures with (feverish) excitement, and

waves (of confusion) to dash in my head (i.e, brain or intellect),

should I become that? (O Lord, let it not happen.) "

 

 

 

 

Detailed Commentary:

 

The real use for learning & the dangers of it:

 

Learning has to bring culture and wisdom, and humility has to result

from wisdom. Learning is not to become puffed up with pride.

Scriptures try to bring home these truths in a variety of ways. They

give instances of persons who suffered on account of their vanity

due to learning. They also cite references to great men who were

humble. They lay down codes of conduct, means for the development of

virtues, methods of Upasana and contemplation on the Supreme Being,

and also reveal the experiences of Realization. The scriptures are

to be studied well, understood in their true connotation, and their

instructions practiced diligently and God attained. Study is to end

in practice and practice in experience. The purpose of learning is

to live life truly, to have an understanding of life, and to attain

God-experience. Learning is to be put into practice in daily life.

Learning is to live life, and life is to learn. In short, learning

is life and life is learning. To attain God — to have God-

experience — the purpose of life, which is the purpose of learning

too.

 

Thiruvalluvar: Purpose of learning is to worship God

The great Tamil saint Thiruvalluvar says, " What is the use of

learning, if the learned intellectual worships not the Lotus-Feet of

the Lord (and attains the Lord)? " Our learning should not remain

isolated from our living. They should go together.

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Instruction to the devout Sadhaka

[After the needed reconciliation and the inner joy resulting

therefrom (verse 31), the Sadhaka now faces a new kind of danger —

two-fold in its nature — which he should very carefully avoid. The

aspirant, on account of that glimpse of God-consciousness (verse

28), might feel that he has achieved something and might be tempted

to exhibit his knowledge by entering into arguments with others on

the different scriptures; or, people (Pandits), having known that he

has attained something, might approach him to have debates with him

on scriptures — both of which will distract him from his Sadhana and

Goal.

 

Here is, therefore, the Sadhaka's prayer to the Lord — an earnest

struggle — for not getting entangled in heated discussions with

people on scriptures which are vast and contain apparently

contradictory statements and instructions; and thus, not to waste

his time but to cautiously go ahead with his Sadhana, being mindful

of the Great Goal. " O Lord, am I to be entangled in discussions and

thus, waste my time! Pray, save me from this. " ]

 

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