HIDE AND
SEEK
One of the leading biscuit company
introduced a biscuit by name called 'Hide and Seek'.
Well, I had my own views on this name. Being sceptic, wondered how this name
would be a success in the market. Milk bikis made sense. Glucose had a
purpose. 'Hide and Seek' -but
.. ran the train of thoughts. How can this be tasty? sweet/
One cannot find solace in hiding and
seeking,went further my thought process. Suddenly my sub-conscous mind told
"Hey! Wait" -Do not children play hide and seek and yield immense happiness?The
person hiding is happy and indeed the boy trying to find him.
Now, if this small game can benefit
children for some time at some point of life, then, I thought, why not the great
game with EmperumAn.
Have AzvAr-s had this divine experience of
hide and seek? Sri kulasEkara AzvAr dedicates a thriumozhi in PerumAL thirumozhi
for Sri KrshNA being very unpunctual, if we may call it so. It is said that
there is no concept of time in parama padham. In International arenA,
punctuality is appreciated to the highest degree. It is said that in United
States Punctuality gets the first priority ( although adiyEan's expereinces with
the so called US people are entirely different)
Coming back to our subject, Lord krshNA
gives appointment to a maiden and when she is waiting at the agreed shadow of a
tree, He goes on flirting? with another one. Is he true to her ? No He seeks yet
another and this woman also gets desolate. Neither time nor place are adhered
to.
Oh! Lord, You never turn up at the
scheduled time -sonna pOdhil vArEr -says thirumangai
AzvAr.She summons the beetle as witness for such erratic behaviours. 'kongu vaNDEa kari' are from Periya Thriumozhi
9-3-4;
What are the anubhavam-s, of svAmi Nam
AzvAr. We see the transformation of parAnkusA into parAnkusa nAyaki when the
Lord is indifferent to these restrcitions of fourth dimensions. True to His
svAmitham, He emerges at His own will and wish, whims and fancies and till then,
AzvAr frets with disappointment, angry with disgust and wrath filled due to this
delay. She naturally, turns her face other side and never listens to the appeals
of the late comer.Here is a soul eager to meet You and Oh! Lord Your set
priorities are different. On the top of it You reel out cock and bull stories.
These would be believed by thiose who do not know about You. Nay, not me. Fully
aware of Your pranks, never would I believe You , henceforth declares Sri
Nam-AzvAr in the second thriuvAimozhi of the sixth ten 'min
idai madavAr'.
'min idai sEar kaNNan
methena vandhAn enRu .." is the apt thriuvaimozhi nURRandhAdhip pAsuram
summing up the emotional outpourings.
Sri Kula-sekara PerumAL goes to the exent
of saying "Oh!Lord, come on get off. We know about You-EmperumAn
ezhundhar
Well, these hide and seek games of
the Almighty with the apostles, though making them pining for Him, in
fact, highlights His salabyam and sausElyam. Nobody would definitely
expect a person to emerge in TNagar when in fact appointment was at
ThrivuallikkEANi. However, the Lord aggravates the zest and eagerness, the
liking and the expectations collating into a accumulation of the
'When,When..When shall i meet the Lord /"
This is what Sri Azhagaia MaNavALap
perumAL nAyanAr declares as ini ini enRa
iRupadhu starting from ini yAm
vuRamai of thriuvirutham first pAsuram. '
Love is but a game of waiting and I
realised that this hide and seek gives immense satisfaction, immortal mirth and
eternal bliss, provided it is the Lord who is hiding.
The biscuit now tastes
sweet.
dAsan
vanamamalai
padmanabhan
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