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Though singing the Lord's praise may be akin to the taste of neem, the goddess of learning Saraswati has favoured us by residing in ov   heart, urging us to sing about the Lord with ie golden chakra’, and endowing us with this ability. This poetic inspiration is due to the grace of the compassionate Lord.

Jpnn&— goddess Sarasvati, hailed as ' eurñCge6l ', in the Veda's. Azhwar observes in this pasuram, that his poetic skill was the gift of Sarasvati having chosen the Azhwar's good heart, as the appropriate instrument to sing the praise of the Lord. How did the goddess of learning choose Azhwar's heart for conferring this favour? It was because the Azhwar enjoyed the special grace of Sriman Narayana, since the time he was in the womb of his mother, as gratefully acknowledged by the Azhwar later on in the work.

 

éiâarnilp6uujmg $Qi ' ( 87 ). ' I worshipped Him as a foetus

in the womb, seeing for myself the grace of the presiding deity of

 

 

4oéiJ]% Qux{ge? @gaouxuflgsa aux%Iqj@ uxRk.%gj Q - Why does the Azhwar compare singing the praise of the Lord to the taste of something as unpalatable as neem ? ; although the Lord's name is usually described as something indescribably sweet, as for instance in the words of Swami Nammazhwar, ' CJ i-rope #1;;;1d11ja «£er§;@ >¿9gig› 9J;8g' — ($1(5»*IZ— 6Jiui. — 2-3-1). It is to demonstrate that this contrary reaction is the result of the cumulative residue of tendencies built up over timeless births, or, in other words, our samska'ra's' which are not easy to shed.

 

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When the Lord cast His benevolent glance at us, His devotees, showering on us the grace of covtant remembrance, making some substance out of mere straw, my ignorance dispelled, I looked closely at the reality of God and Self, and meditated on His Feet resembling the lotus fiower. I then offered my soul to those feet without a thought of any other recourse.

6iun niByJJ       - making substance out of  straws,

 

m                       — When the Lord cast His compassionate glance. ' mñ Eli;in                          gp : ' — Whom Madhusudana' beholds. (yN C       N            - With the veil of 'aviveka" lifting, the knowledge of the connection between the self and Brahman

dawned.’ niisu euu•«» S «a•s» «••$a«» or«»•+

NQ  - The soul has the quality of being owned. Brahman has

the quality of being the owner. '

- - ' Reflecting over the 'parathantram' of the self to the Lord.'

N - - I offered myself to those Feet, realising them

as the Way. ' suCnI2sunmm gn Co usuQ uqnJgg n :

: ' - -” The prayerful mind steeped in His thought as

The Way ' is in a state of total surrender.”