True Joy

The beauty of this verse strikes me just now.

The thought of Kumaran, who desires the breasts of the maiden (Valli0, gives us such joy that turns our worldly tastes insipid. It is paradoxical, and beautiful poetry, and philosophically sound too.

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பெரும்பைம் புனத்தினுட்சிற்றேனல் காக்கின்ற பேதைகொங்கை 

விரும்பும் குமரனை மேய்யன்பினான் மெல்ல மெல்லவுள்ள 

அரும்புந் தனிப்பர மானந்தந் தித்தித் தறிந்தவன்றே

 கரும்புந் துவர்த்துச் செந்தேனும் புலித்தறக் கைத்ததுவே.

Kumaran, who desires

the breasts of the maiden

that keeps watch over a small patch

of the vast, green fields;

The unique, transcendant bliss

that softly buds within

with the surge of true love for Him;

The moment such joy was tasted,

Sugarcane lost its sweetness,

Red honey turned sour,

And all this, all, turned bitter.

Here, I would like to recall again the comments of GS:

"It is the basic Saiva Siddhantha metaphysics that the souls areprimordially merged in the state of kevala, anava mala, it being like sankhya world view of the eternal and unattached purusa confounding its true nature with the reflections in the buddhi.

In order to be free from the objectivity created by virtue of this metaphysical ignorance, the role of the unmainfest matter is necessary, as otherwise no sense of awareness of the bondage will be possible. It is like our being able to meditate and understand only in the full blaze of the waking state, as no initiative is there in the deep sleep state, nor that state being inimical to the natural state of freedomof the purusa. Ultimately, it is only for the reflected consciousness that freedom or bondage is relevant, it being only empirical.

Saiva Siddhanta teaches this exalted truth in a simple and devotional language that the Lord makes available the, " DANU, BOGA, BUVANA KARANA," that is the wherewithall for the souls to come out of the ignorance.

In fact our embodiment is only for the purpose of knowing our transcendental nature and be free from the bondage."

God is the creator of the world, creator and enjoyer of desire. And the thought of Him, brings us joy, freedom from desire,  and freedom from the bondage to the pleasing of  senses.

The senses do not bind us. It is the association of happiness with the objects of sensory enjoyment that binds us to repetitive existence. Devotion to God, who is the progenitor of senses, and their objects, liberates from this false association- because the source of our happiness is directly known without the mediation of senses.