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THIRUVEMPAVAI – DAY FIFTEEN – SONG FIFTEEN
Transliteration
OrorukAl emperuman enRenrE namperumAn
cIrorukAl vAy OvAL ciththam kaLikUra
nIrorukAl OvA netunthArai kan panippap
pArorukAl vanthanaiyALa vinnOraith thAn paniyAL
pEraraiyarkku inkanE piththu oruvar AmARum
Ar oruvar ivvaNNam AtkoLLum viththakarthAl
vAr uruvap pUnmulaiyIr vAyAra nAm pAti
Er uruvap pUmpunal pAynthu AtElOr empAvAy
Translation
On and off does she call our Lord
And in rapture sings His greatness ceaselessly.
Endless tears stream forth in passion for Him.
When she becomes conscious of the world around,
She praises it as but a form of His.
She thinks not of other gods.
Great is her passion that makes her mad of our great Lord!
Let us wade through the waters, shapely breasted friends,
Singing of Him in full throated ease.
Nammalvar, the Vaishnavite saint poet has sung about the divine madness in
one of his songs. He assumes the guise of a lady love in whose heart God has
entered even before she took a form of her own; in whose heart God has
chosen to descend and whom He has chosen to possess. The song is in the
words of the step mother of the lady in divine madness.
She looks around looking for Him everywhere.
She looks far in search of Him.
Shedding tears, her soul burns in passion.
Her body withers.
She repeats the name of Kanna.
She calls aloud for Perumal.
Thus is my girl afflicted.
What am I to do?
In the fifteenth song of Thiruvempavai, the pavai maids report of such
divine madness of one of their troop. She is also the one who has been taken
for the mad because of her passion for God. And those around her being
themselves devotees did not disown her. In fact they feel happy that she had
come to experience a blissful state that is not easy for all to experience.
They melt in appreciation of her melting in her devotion.
God tethers the feet of the devotees bestowing a steady will on them. They
thus eliminate the binding of worldly affliction and achieve Divine Sense.
The fifteenth song of Thiruvempavai describes the details of such a
rapturous state of mind.
She utters, “My Lord! My Lord!” on and off. She keeps on celebrating the
greatness of God. As she melts in her passion for the divine, her eyes well
forth endless streams of tears. Though she becomes conscious of the world
around herself at times, she identifies it as but another form of God thus
sanctifying her earthly consciousness. She has riveted all her devotion on
Siva and therefore other gods become non-existent to her. What greatness is
it of our Lord to have transformed her to such a state! Let us also sing in
His praise and perhaps then we can also experience such divine madness as
hers. - That is the argument of the song.
Any desire is fulfilled only when one’s total attention is on the sought. We
talk about those who have a passion for the films, a passion for money, a
passion for women and other such. So is the passion for the divine. It
becomes a single pointed devotion.
Because of the condescending act of God in redeeming man seeking him of His
own volition, even God is celebrated in the Hindu faith to be passionate
about the redemption of His devotees. Such passion of God along with the
passion of the soul for God both become the nature of God. In another song
of his, Manivacakar describes how God inspires divine madness.
He bestows devotion. He then inspires divine madness.
He then tethers me to His feet once for all.
How am I to understand the strange grace of our Lord!
Once the binding with the world is severed and once the consciousness of
being oneself is lost and once tethered to the feet of God, the soul has no
activity of its own. It is thus the God inspires divine madness in the
devotees. It is such a maid of divine madness that we come across in the
fifteenth song of Thiruvempavai.
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