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--- In tiruvengadam@xxxx, "Sudarshan M.K." <sampathkumar_2000@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Mukkur Swamy used to further add, "After listening to DadhipAndan's 
> story we should not ask ourselves "How can I too, like the claypot, 
> secure God's Grace effortlessly?". Instead, we should ask "If God
in > His compassion is willing to hear even the muted pleas of a
lifeless > claypot longing for 'mOksha' and reward it accordingly,
why doesn't > this proud and steely heart beating within my breast, 
with its > vast power of eloquence, still not cry out to Him in 
desperate > prayer and seize the same opportunity"?
> > It was only after I'd heard Mukkur Swamy's explanation did the 
true > significance of DadhipANdan story sink into me.
> dAsan,
> Sudarshan


Dear friends,

Adiyane forgot to mention one other fact in the above posting of mine.

While explaining the point above, and more especially to underscore 
the fact of "this proud and steely heart beating within my breast", 
Sri.Mukkur Swamy used to remind us of the oft-quoted and most
poignant 'pAsuram' from Tondar-adi-podi's "tirumAlai":

"virumbi ninru aettha maatane, vidhi illane, madhi onru illai;
irumbu-pOl valiya nenjam irai irai urugam vannam
karumbu amar sOlai suzhntha aranga mA koyil konda
karumbinai kandu konda, en kaNNiNai kaLLikumArE" !
("tirumAlai" -Verse 17)

(Translation): 

"Many years have passed, my head not once did bend in prayer, 
My mind refused to turn Godward; these hands never served Him...
This heart of mine was but hard, cold, unbending silent steel --

But then my eyes feasted upon the temple of Arangam
Amidst those sweet cane-groves swarming with bees --
My eyes rejoiced! My spirit leapt 
And my heart melted... bit by bit"!

Mukkur Swamy used to explain the delightful phrase "irumbu-pOl valiya 
nenjam irai irai urugam vannam" very movingly indeed, saying that
even DadhipAndan's claypot obviously had more "heart" to earn the 
Grace of God than the "steely-hard hearts" of human-beings who, alas, 
have no yearning whatsoever for the 'parama-gatih' which is the Feet 
of our Lord at Arangam!

Thanks to Sri.Mukkur Swamy, to this very day, whenever adiyane reads 
this particular verse from the 'tirumAlai', I am able to recollect
the the claypot of the DadhipAndan story and partake in the delight of
the AzhwAr's own savour ("azhwAr kanda ruchi")!
Thanks and regards,
dAsan,
Sudarshan
--- End forwarded message ---






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