Chapter 8
The cloud messenger - (விண் நீல)
மேகவிடு தூது
In our land, it is an ancient custom for a lovelorn heroine to send a message to her lover, or for a hero to send a message to his beloved through someone else. Literature often depicts messengers such as clouds, parrots, and storks. The Lord has a blue complexion, and Andal is fond of the color blue. It's the rainy season! Clouds are coming from Thiruvengadam + Read more
பிரிவாற்றாமையால் வாடும் தலைவி தலைவனைக் குறித்தோ, தலைவன் தலைவியைக் குறித்தோ ஒருவரைத் தூது விடுவது நம் நாட்டின் பழமையான வழக்கம். மேகம், கிளி, நாரை முதலியவற்றைத் தூது விடுவதை இலக்கியங்களில் காணலாம். பகவான் நீல நிறம் கொண்டவன், நீல நிறத்தில் ஆண்டாளுக்கு ஆசை. மழை காலம்! திருவேங்கடமலையிலிருந்து + Read more
Verses: 577 to 586
Grammar: **Taravu Kocchakakkalippā / தரவு கொச்சகக்கலிப்பா
Recital benefits: Will become pure devotees of the Lord
- Verse 1:
577. O clouds, covering the sky like a blue blanket! Thirumāl, of Venkatam hill where clear water flows has not come to see me and the tears from my eyes trickle down on my breasts. I am tired and I am only a woman. Is it honorable that he should trouble me like this? - Verse 2:
578. O dark clouds pouring rain like rich pearls and gold! do you have any message from the god of Venkatam hills, the generous one colored as dark as night? My love for him burns me like fire. in the middle of the night, even the breeze comes and hurts me, Oh! how will I survive? - Verse 3:
579. O generous clouds, giving rain to the earth My shining beauty, bangles, mind and sleep have all gone, taking my pride with them. I survive only by singing the divine qualities of Govindan, the lord of Thiruvenkatam where cool waterfalls flow. - Verse 4:
580. O shining clouds with lightning ! I yearn for Him everyday, who is the lord of Thiruvenkatam with the goddess Lakshmi on his handsome chest. Can you tell him that I intensely desire to embrace His golden chest? - Verse 5:
581. O dark clouds, rising in the sky and spreading everywhere, you pour rain in Thiruvenkatam and make the flowers bloom and drip honey. If you would go to Him, who split open the body of Hiranyan with his sharp claws, bring back my bangles and tell Him how much I love him and suffer. - Verse 6:
582. O cool clouds, that take water from the ocean, rise to the sky and pour as rain in Thiruvenkatam of Thirumāl who took the land from Mahābali! Like insects that swarm into a wood apple and eat it, leaving the shell, Nāranan has entered into my heart and made me suffer. Go and tell him how much I love him. - Verse 7:
583. O cool clouds floating on the hills of Thiruvenkatam of the lovely-eyed Thirumāl who churned the milky ocean filled with conches! Tell Him that I bow to his feet and ask Him for one thing. Only if He comes one day and embraces me with my bosom smeared with kumkum paste, will I be able to survive. Go tell him this. - Verse 8:
584. O clouds that rise in the rainy season in the Thiruvenkatam hills, I constantly recite His name, who went to the battlefield and fought for the Pāndavas. I fall down like the old leaves of the milkweed plants when raindrops fall on them. During these long days of separation, won't He come one day and talk to me? - Verse 9:
585. O huge clouds rising like rutting elephants, you think Thiruvenkatam is your place and live there. What does He, resting on the snake bed, wish to tell me? If people know that He who is the refuge for all, ignored a fragile vine-like tender girl and hurt her, will they respect Him? - Verse 10:
586. Kodai daughter of Vishnuchithan, the chief of flourishing Puduvai, composed ten Tamil pāsurams about how she asks the clouds to go as messengers to the lord, who resides in Thiruvenkatam and tell how she suffers from divine love for Him who rests on the snake bed. Those who learn these pāsurams and keep them in their minds will become His ardent devotees.