pranaya
kalaham
(part I)
Devotees who attend and experience
utsavam-s and cherish the anubavam-s very well know that the Lord who is
away for a night is not permitted inside the temple by thAyAr. The supreme-
Omniscient Lord - has to answer all sorts of questions to get leeway and
squeeze His way in to His divine abode. Everyone would happily recount Sri
nam-perumAL having spent the night at vuRaiyUr not being allowed inside the
thiruvarangam periya-kOil. The questions asked start from 'where have You been all night? to 'Why is YOur kasturi thilakam-which is normally upright, tilted and
smeared?'
It is another matter that reconciliation
takes place and the Lord ultimately enters His own Home after passing the
interview.
If this is the case for the Lor
Himself, can one imagine the plight of a
crab? Yes, the masculine crab -alavan- affectionately goes in search of eatables,
with the intention of submitting to its beloved, who is in the family way. The
evening quest takes the alavan to a lotus and it enters the precinctsof the
lotus and alas at the sunset the lotus closes itself. It tries to get out of the
lotus but in smears itself with parts of lotus and nectars in the
process.The crab has to wait
till the sunrise in the morn. to get the doors opened and no sooner the gates
are opened rushes towards
the better half -who is resting in the alli-
eagerly to give all the favourite gatherings it had made for its
sweetheart.
Unfortunately, being the morning the alli
closes itself.
Thirumangai mannan describes the wealth of
the thirunaRaiyUr dhivya-dhEsam -in such a fashion.
Sri bhaTTar, goes on to explain the fact
that since the alavan-masculine gender of the crab, had spent all night
elsewhere -actually it was trapped inside the lotus, the female naNdu -naLLi- on seeing the marks on the
body of its man, did not allow it inside-questioning its whereabouts
and nocturnal ventures.
Not just being questioned, it did not
permit the crab inside.
This was the plight of this crab, which
had in fact eagerly and affecitionately spent a sleepless night for the sake of
its wife.
The pAsuram goes on as
follows
"paLLi-k kamalth
idai-p-patta paguvAi alavan mugam nOkki,
naLLi vuDum vayal
sUzhndha naRaiyUr" 6-7-6;
A natural day to day phenomenon,
descrbed splendidly by kaliyan, a description of sprawling blossomed lotus
and closed Ambal-s, and equally wonderfully explained by
bhaTTar.
and there goes bhatTTar again with his
supreme commentary skills.
(to be continued)
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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