Arunachala! the cool moon of grace! My mind is troubled by the intense
heat of tapathryam( three troubles arising from "Physical" or
Adhi-Bhautika, "Divine" or Adhi-Daivika and "Internal" or Adhyaatmika
sources) Kindly place your hands of ambrosial rays and cool my mind. My
mind though containing the nectar of immortal life is shut like the ambol (Tamil name) flower. Make it blossom by your grace!
C: This supplication here is also similar to the prayer made in verse 27 praying for the destruction of the ego-knot. In verse 27 the knot of ego was compared to the lotus bud and Arunachala as the Sun which makes it blossom. In this verse the mind is compared to ambol bud and Arunachala to the moon which makes it blossom. It is in the fitness of things that the pot (kalasham) of nectar which had been tightly closed with the sealing by shell lac gets opened only through the ambrosial rays radiated by the one who is himself the embodiment of immortality. Hence Arunachala the moon of grace radiating the nectar of immortality is invited by the poet to open it. Pure consciousness, which is ever present as ‘existence’ in the heart of people itself is the grace manifesting itself as the form of Arunachala Siva. Hence ‘Kathirattam’ meaning radiant hand is used. Same idea is expressed in the benedictory verse of 'Aksharamanamalai' as ‘karunakaram’ and in verse 51 of AMM as ‘arutkai’.
C: This supplication here is also similar to the prayer made in verse 27 praying for the destruction of the ego-knot. In verse 27 the knot of ego was compared to the lotus bud and Arunachala as the Sun which makes it blossom. In this verse the mind is compared to ambol bud and Arunachala to the moon which makes it blossom. It is in the fitness of things that the pot (kalasham) of nectar which had been tightly closed with the sealing by shell lac gets opened only through the ambrosial rays radiated by the one who is himself the embodiment of immortality. Hence Arunachala the moon of grace radiating the nectar of immortality is invited by the poet to open it. Pure consciousness, which is ever present as ‘existence’ in the heart of people itself is the grace manifesting itself as the form of Arunachala Siva. Hence ‘Kathirattam’ meaning radiant hand is used. Same idea is expressed in the benedictory verse of 'Aksharamanamalai' as ‘karunakaram’ and in verse 51 of AMM as ‘arutkai’.
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