A Peep into Periya Thirumozhi -Concluding post 2

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rasAnubhavam

 

Thirumohzi is full of wonderful rasAnubhavam.

 

The Thiru puLLam Budhankudi thriumohzi talks of 'puLLu piLLaikku irai thEadum'5-1-2;

..When questioned why should the bird search for its prey in a very fertile land, Bhattar replied, the bird has to look for a small prey commensurate to the size of its child.

 

Similarly, when Azvar sees a beetle running into the tresses of a maiden, he mentions as it hides as it had a tiff with its spouse

'thangu pEADaiyOdu vUDiya mahdukaram...thaiyalAr kuzhal aNaivAn' thriuveLLeRai.5-3-6

 

In thirunaRayUr, a male crab gets trapped in a lotus in night time and in the morning tries to enter the lily which is closed in the day time. This is explained as the female crab not opening the door on being angry that its spouse had desreted her in the night

'naLLi vUdum vayzhal sUzhndha naRaiyUr' 6-7-6;

When questioned why didnt the male crab explain its predicament. For this Sri Bhattar replied

what to do, ths kingdom is dominated by females

'en seivadhu peN arasu nADAyiTREA'-nAchiyAr kOil.

 

Sri RamAnujar had promised Sri vangEpurathu Nambi to teach thriuvArAdhanam. However, one day when he was teaching tiruvArAdhanam to some others, suddenly vangEpurathu nambE entered the place and vudayavar felt very embarrassed and he recalled this pAsuram and likened with the feelings of sri krshNA when he was entwined with a rope on stealing butter

 

'viLiyA Arka AppuNDu vimmi azhudhAn men malar mEAL' 6-7-4;

 

The above are only a few

 

dasan

vanamamalai padmanabhan