668 Let us remain united without knowing separation
Unending bliss
Is flowing there
It comes
Like a river of honey
When unable
To understand theology
Only bhakti alone
Provides bliss
Two are required
For any relationship
And should join together
To immerse in love
We need bhakti
To have bliss
And we need mukti
To remain in it
Sweet won’t
Give any taste
Unless one
Takes and eat it
Once you are there
To give
Where is any hurdle
To receive it?
Once you gave
Yourself for me
Where is any
Separation between us?
You have
Millions of bhaktas
They will come
Seeking you every time
But it is better
For you to understand that
I am not
One among them
Constantly
Remaining with you
Ready to listen
Whatever you say
Always longing
For you
Who is there among them?
One like me?
Do they have the same kind of relationship?
That I have with you?
Will they remember you?
Day and night (like me?)
Won’t you just
Think that
Do they have?
Bhakti like me?
The bliss that
I enjoyed
Will remain always
Within me permanently
I become a mad person
By enjoying it
Therefore I again
Come unto you
It is impossible
For you to deny that
You cannot get separated from me
Even by mistake
As you mingle
With me having that relationship
Let us remain forever
Without knowing separation
Mathigiri, 17-6-2017, 2.40 pm.
When I received the Navadha Bhakti Vidhan video clip in Whatsapp message in which Rama sings about the glory of bhakti to Sabari, I was very much impressed by the act of that woman who expressed her bhakti. Then I was reading about Radha’s love and Krishna’s love for her in ‘A Sanskrit Portrait: Radha in the Plays of Rupa Gosvami’ by Donna Marie Wulff, in John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India, Boston, Beacon Press, (1982) 1986, 27-41, in which Wulff wrote:
…Radha is necessary because love requires two, because sweetness needs “another” to taste it.28
The love of Radha and Krishna is a subtle interplay of freedom and commitment, spontaneity and constancy. If we envision these poles as opposite ends of a continuum, we may place Krishna nearer to the freedom end and Radha nearer to that of commitment. Yet each partakes to some degree of the other’s predominant quality….
Krishna, on the other hand, exhibits almost total freedom. Although his irresistible attraction to Radha leads to uncharacteristic single-mindedness, his love for her is never wholly exclusive. This perpetual fickleness on his part represents both the universality of divine love, which is as diffuse and varied as the many degrees and ways in which he is loved, and his transcendence of all conventional boundaries.
Why should commitment in love be preferred over freedom? For the Vaisnava, the highest religious idea is the sweetness of perpetual relatedness in bhakti, rather than the release from all bondage that is represented by the goal of moksa….—p. 41
After reading I again watched the Video as I liked it very much. Then as I began to reflect what Rama sang about bhakti and what Wulff wrote about the ‘perpetual relatedness in bhakti’ I wrote this song to reflect my relationship with the Lord. For me bhakti involves total person—including body. It is worth note what Michelle Voss Roberts says about it:
…In a holistic approach to devotional love, human and divine beings love with all of their faculties; whatever purification of these faculties means, it does not mean their quiescence. Bodies participate in devotional love. They can be trained to express and perceive the signs of the love of God. The love we know in other forms—with lovers, children, parents, revered authorities, members of our religious communities, animals, or nature—is caught up in our ultimate concern. In these loves, we know something of divine bliss; and in loving, we love God. This holistic view resonates with contemporary retrievals of eros in recent Christian theology. The dichotomous view of love as focused either on the self (eros, kama) or on the other (agape, prema) fosters a severely truncated view of eros. Eros is a love that spills over, flows out, and cannot be contained. It is the irrepressible divine love that creates a world entirely to play the game of love within it.– Michelle Voss Roberts, Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian theologies of emotion. New York, Fordham University Press, 2014, p. 113
Though other might think that I brag too much about my bhakti as if I am the only person to have it. But it is also part of bhakti genre where each bhakta claims to have such kind of exclusive and unique bhakti towards bhagavan. So what I brag about my exclusive bhakti, I am representing all other bhaktas who can do the same.
I tied to upload that video but it is too big for me to do it.
668 இணையிரியது இருப்போம்
தெவிட்டாத பேரின்பம்
தோன்றுது அங்கே
தேனாறு போல்வந்து
பாயுது இங்கே
தத்துவம் ஏதும்
புரியாத போது
பக்தி ஒன்றே
பரவசம் அருளுது
இருவர் வேண்டும்
உறவுமே இருக்க
இணைய வேண்டும்
அன்பில் திளைக்க
பக்தி வேண்டும்
பரவசம் காண
முக்தி வேண்டும்
நீடித்து நிலைக்க
இனிப்பு தனியே
சுவை தராது
எடுத்து ஒருவர்
சுவைப்பது அன்றி
கொடுக்க நீயும்
இருக்கும் போது
ஏற்க இனியும்
தடையும் ஏது
என்னை உனக்கே
தந்த பின்னே
பிரிவு நம்மிடை
இனியும் ஏது
உனக்கு உண்டு
பக்தர்கள் கோடி
வருவார் உன்னை
நித்தமும் தேடி
அவரில் ஒருவர்
அல்ல நானும்
அறிவது மட்டும்
உனக்கும் நியாயம்
இடை விடாது
உன்னுடன் இருக்க
எது சொன்னாலும்
சரியென கேட்க
என்றும் உனக்காய்
ஏங்கித் தவிக்க
என்போல் அவரில்
உள்ளவர் யாரு?
நான்கொண்ட உறவு
அவர் கண்டாரோ
நாளும் பொழுதும்
உன்னை நினைப்பரோ
என்போல் பக்தி
அவர் செய்வாரோ
என்பதை மட்டும்
எண்ணி டாயோ
ஒருமுறை துய்த்த
அந்த இன்பம்
நிரந்தரமாக
என்னில் நிலைக்கும்
அதனைப் பருகி
பேதை ஆனேன்
அதனால் மீண்டும்
உன்னிடம் வந்தேன்
மறுக்க உனக்கும்
முடிந் திடாது
மறந்தும் என்னைப்
பிரிந் திடாது
உறவு கொண்டு
என்னில் இணைய
இருப்போம் இருவரும்
இணை பிரியாது
மத்திகிரி, 17-6-2017, மதியம் 2.40