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Dear Sri Vasudevan,

No need to say sorry.  We will wait as long as we could to read your
postings, albeit impatiently.  Definitely, everyone envies your Krishna
because he is so graceful/attractive and 
does mischevous things, which a human mind cannot comprehend (also because
you say He is your Krishna;I envy your bhakthi).  When we can't comprehend
His actions during His avatara as Rama, how can we comprehend His leelas as
Krishna.  He is more puzzling than the vedas. A case in point is Brahma /
Narada / Uddhava etc., who though mastered Vedas cannot understand the love
or vatsalya bhakti of Gopis, let alone Krishna and His Rasaleela.

Coming to achethana vasthu - be it bamboo or beaten rice, He is so fond of
these that we recall Krishna first when we hear the word flute or while
taking food/prasadam done using beaten rice.  They are surely objects of
envy.

Finally on your question whether we should think of andaal or Krishna.  It
is better to think/pray andaal who is Lord's daya swaroopa.  When we pray
Andaal, we are in fact meditating on Lord's daya guna, which is the reason
as to why I am reading your article and THANKING you.


Sukumar

-----Original Message-----
From: M.G.Vasudevan [mailto:mgv@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:16 PM
To: srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; raamabhakthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SriRangaSri] poraamai- envy - post 2


Dear srivaishNava perunthagaiyeer, 

First of all please accept my sincere apologies for sending this post so
belatedly. Due to certain commitments, I could not draft the post to serve
you. May be somebody envied with my krishNa that caused this delay. First
the meaning of this beautiful krithi of OVS with the undercurrent of envy
over that achEthana vasthu - a bamboo flute of my krishNa..

raagam: aarabhi         thaaLam: aadhi thaaLam
pallavi:
kuzhalE nee enna koduththu vaiththanaiyO 
gOvindhan unnai oodha engaL gOpaalan unnai oodha 
konji unai senthaamarai malar anna karam koNdu 
aNaiththida kuviyidhazh - adharam unadhiru amudhinai 
koLLai koNdavarai parugidavena  [kuzhalE nee]

meaning: hey flute, have you done many good deeds so as to that gOvindhan
plays music with you. Our gOpaalan plays music with you. He embraces you
first and then caresses you with his lotus like hands, those lips brought
into cup shape so as to rob and suck and drink the nectar, which you
contain. 

[see the possessiveness in claiming 'our gOpaalan' - it is not 'my gOpaalan'
- but 'engaL gOpaalan' - the poet has joined the krishNa dhaasargaL koottam
- congregation of servants of krishNa - so - engaL gOpaalan- the koodi
yirundhu kuLirndhu principle of aaNdaaL on this day of thiru aadip pooram
the birthday of aaNdaaL]

[does this word caressing convey that meaning for konjudhal? Or is it
embrace - then what is aNaiththida - also embrace may lead to thazhuvudhal.
Or for konjudhal - is it 'love making' - that may lead to some other
meaning? Or am I inadequate in my language proficiency - dear bhakthaas,
give a word for that. May be krishNa - oh, you stop the thinking faculty
inside - for your konjudhal with flute - our konjudhal with you - word's
lose meaning when thinking about you and your deeds, and / or thinking lose
track when emotions run high? - oh Krishna] 

ok any how - when it comes to krishNa - perhaps my dear bhakthaas can make
what it is for konjudhal that too with the flute - even if they do not know
the subtleties of tamil to that extent] 

anupallavi:
kazhalO unakkenath thaaLangaL pOda 
adhaik-kaNdavudan amarargaL maa malar thoova 
mazhaiyO vandhadhu ena maa mayilgaL aada 
engaL manamO lajjaiyai vittu gajjai katti aada  [kuzhalE nee]

meaning: the anklets in his legs provide rhythm for you, hey flute, seeing
this action of the feet of their lord, the gods in the sky shower big
flowers, seeing that shower the peacocks dance as though it is raining, on
seeing all these our mind shirking all shyness adorn the dancing bells in
the feet and start dancing - all these because of you, hey flute, have you
-- , 
 
(madhyamakalam)
madhu maNandhu poraadhadhaagiya karu vaNdinam kaNdu 
indhaLam paada maazhai marakatham minnoLi iNaiyena 
vandhu vandhu balam unthu aravum aada gathi irandha maadhavar aanavar 
iLa kanniyar aaghavum thayir vilai koora kai aNaiththu mei aNaiththu 
kaadhal seivadhu enRu hariyOdum uravaada        [kuzhalE nee]

meaning: these black bees sing the paNN indhaLam - that happy music -
forgetting their natural job of collection of honey, the young snake also
started dancing because of its youth, and thinking that naaga rathinam and
lightning both shine sparkling in parallel, the old people who were doing
penance begging a route to liberation became young girls to call price
ranges for selling curd, they also started joining hands in romantic mood to
embrace hari -our lord - all because of you, hey flute, have you---. 

charanam:
kONaamal naaNaamal maamalaith-thookki 
kudaiyaaghap-pidiththaan maamazhai neekki
aanaalum inRu unai kaikku uRavaakki 
aanaanE mukkONan aavadharkkuL nOkki     [kuzhalE nee]

meaning: this gOpaalan lifted the hillock gOvardhanam as an umbrella with
out shying or bending even a finger to save from rains. But, today he became
thrice bent to make relationship with you through hand - hey flute have you
---  

Additional Points: 
1. this envy with flute is simply reflects aaNdaaL's envy with sangu as
already highlighted in previous post. 

2. This envy over flute also leads to the taste / trace of periyaazhvaar's
naavalam theevil padhikam - gOvindhan kuzhal kodu oodhina pOdhu - idhu oR
arpudham kELeer - all sentient and non-sentient to change / lose their basic
nature and go with the music from this flute - oh great - hey flute what is
the great penance did you do to enjoy that proximity with krishna's lips.  

3. see black bees sing indhaLa paNN - music forgetting their basic nature of
collection of honey.  

4. snakes dance when so many are near them doing some thing else thereby
threatening their very existence - snakes have forgotten their basic nature
of hissing and threatening others, but dancing in lightning and sparkle etc.


5. great personalities - maharishigaL - maa thavar - maa thvaththai
udaiyavar - doing penance, they also lose their balance and start calling
price of curd - this is a reflection of going into subtle detail of poorva
jenmam detail of gopies - former rishis during raamaayaNa period in dhandaka
vanam - now gopies - again their poorva jenma vaasanai also changed - to
selling curd and enjoying Krishna and his embraces physically and mentally -
all these because of you - oh flute. 

6. he, who not even showed any tiredness even in his little finger for seven
days who took the weight of the hillock gOvardhan - today became bent in
three places - legs bent, waist bent, head bent  - all to bear you - oh
flute - to produce that kuzhal naadham - kuzhal amudham - that too amudhap
punal as said by aazhvaar - Oh you great flute. 

7. gathi irandha maadhavar - the maadhavan - krishNa who begs a route -
calling them to enjoy with them - these girls who go selling curd - krishNa
also begs to others - yes - with the gOpee girls- to get a ball of butter -
to get a kiss from them - begging to mother yasOdhaa for not beating him for
having stolen butter in other's houses - Oh the envy list goes up when
thinking of their bhaagyam to enjoy krishNa.

8. this also brings to light the trio krithis bringing out undercurrent of
the envy on the bhaagyam of yasOdhaa - enna thavam seidhanai of paapanaasam
sivan, engum illadhoru pillai of OVS and paNNiya puNNIyam of ambujam
krishNa. This was an article written in the list earlier. [added information
is that this article of this writer is available as a three part write up
titled enna thavam in www.karnatik.com <http://www.karnatik.com> ] 
  
Just roll in your mind, dear bhakthaas, then you will realize how great this
krithi is. All because it is on krishNa and his flute music. 

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g

PS: on this day of aadip pooram is it better to think aaNdaal only or her
lover krishNa also. I am not finding an answer. You can add.





 
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