1128 Better you listen
If I call you
You should come
If I ask you
You should give
You should
Understand my situation
You should come
To give your grace
I know well
That you alone
Gave this
Right to the bhaktas
What does it matter?
If there is shortage in bhakti
You don’t have any means
To deny what you already gave
I don’t have any means
To lose my right
There is no means for you
To deny which you gave
As both our situation
Is like this
It is better for us to
Understand this well
There is no way
For you to escape
If you began to punish me
I don’t have any more strength for that
You better see
The way this slave lies on the way
Beaten and thrashed
Crushed and trampled
You better search
Proper ways
To help me
With much concern
Paying to someone
To take care of me
Won’t work
With me
If you are ready
To stay till the end to help
Then better
Listen what I say further
Like others
If it is not possible for you
Better mind
Your own business
But you just tell
One thing to me
What works you have
Other than this
You don’t have
Answer for this question
Therefore there is no use
In further delaying
Therefore listen
What I say to you
When I call
Better you come immediately
Mathigiri, 17-10-2019, 6.00 a.m.
After writing the previous song, as it was going to be 6.00 am, I was ready to get up to go to the kitchen to prepare coffee for my mother and tea for me. That time I told the Lord while getting up from the chair the first line of this song: வான்னா வரணும், தான்னா தரணும் [if I say ‘come you should come; if I say give you should give’]. Then as the inspiration came I wrote the first six stanzas. Then I it was getting late I went to the kitchen to make coffee for my mother and was busy with other kitchen works. But when I was preparing tea for me I continue to reflect on the song and told the Lord,’ asking and knocking is for those who seek your grace for the first time. As I already become a bhakta I need to do that. Your duty is to take care of me and my duty is to worship you. Other than this we don’t need any other formalities. Then as the inspiration came, after serving the coffee to my mother, with my tea I quickly returned back and took the note and wrote the rest of the song. I told the Lord he cannot treat me as the Good Samaritan has done. Either he has to come till the end or mind his own business. But before doing that he has to answer to my question, ‘what other works he has other than taking care of me’. As he has no answer for this, there is no other option to him but to come when I call and give when I ask.
Tulsidas [in his Ramcharitmanas] rightly said that Rama gave mukti to all but bhakti to very few. Because god knows how it is difficult to manage those few bhaktas like to me who always demand something from him. Those who receive mukti don’t need anything further. But a bhakta has lots of expectation from god and god has lots of obligation to him, as there are only few bhaktas to worship him but many to receive mukti and settled with it—not disturbing god further. Which one you need? Bhakti or Mukti?
1128 சொன்னால் கேட்கணும்
வாவென அழைத்தால்
வந்திட வேண்டும்
தாவெனக் கேட்டால்
தந்திட வேண்டும்
என்னிலை அதனை
புரிந்திட வேண்டும்
எனக்கும் அருளிட
வந்திட வேண்டும்
பக்தனுக் குள்ள
இந்த உரிமை
தந்தது நீதான்
தெரியும் எனக்கு
பக்தியில் எத்தனை
குறைந்தால் என்ன
தந்ததை மறுக்க
வழியில்லை உனக்கு
உரிமையை இழக்க
வழியில்லை எனக்கு
தந்ததை மறுக்க
வழியில்லை உனக்கு
இருவரின் நிலையும்
இவ்விதம் இருக்க
நாமதைப் புரிவது
நல்லது நமக்கு
தப்பிக்கும் வழியோ
உனக்குமே இல்லை
தண்டித்தால் தாங்கும்
பெலன் எனக்கில்லை
அடிபட்டு உதைபட்டு
வதைபட்டு மிதிபட்டு
வழியில் அடிமை
கிடப்பதைப் பாரு
அதன்படி உதவும்
வழியை மட்டும்
அக்கறையுடனே
நீயும் தேடு
காசைக் கொடுத்து
கணக்கை முடிக்கும்
கதையெல்லாம் இங்கு
என்னிடம் வேண்டாம்
இறுதி வரையில்
கூடவே இருந்து
உதவுவ தென்றால்
மேற்கொண்டு கேளு
முடியாதென்றால்
பிறரைப் போல
நீயும் உனது
வேலையைப் பாரு
இதைவிட உனக்கு
வேறென்ன வேலை
இருக்கு என்பதை
மட்டுமே கூறு
இதற்கு பதிலோ
உன்னிடம் இல்லை
தாமதம் செய்வதால்
பயனுமே இல்லை
ஆகவே நானும்
சொல்வதைக் கேளு
அழைத்தால் உடனே
வந்துமே நில்லு
மத்திகிரி, 17-10-2019, காலை, 6.00