The explanation or treatment of love is also elevated to
the spiritual plane, i.e., ‘sivam’ in male would like to be united with
‘shakthi’ in a female. Indeed it’s a
symbolic act of jeevathma joining with Paramathma.
Precisely for this reason, the ancient Tamils took
sufficient care to develop and nurture this love as an art and attempted to
build and construct a superstructure in the form of grammar and literature in a
large measure. The significant point to
note about love is that it just flowers from within and all the five senses are
able to enjoy it earlier – a rare attribute which none can match, in terms of
pleasure offering objects.
Vallvar says that
it is only in a girl adoring the beautiful bangles on her slender hand the
lover –her man can feel the joy of touch, sight, sound, smell and taste and in essence
all the five sensual pleasures are summed up in her—a rare
attribute indeed
In that sense, whether one likes it or not in a limited
sense a girl is commoditified and treated as an object. But it should be remembered, having said
that a girl is a wonderful phenomenon and that five senses could easily
perceive that divine infinite beauty, kural does not proceed towards
commoditification and ill treatment of the other sex but instead lays down all
the unwritten rules like constitution to impart sanity in man-woman
relationship.
The entire drama of life starts or begins with eye
contact, but ultimately ends up in a substantiative life, family, and children
thus rendering a fruitful service to humanity.
Kural highlights the ultimate truth that these character bound lovers
neither deviate from righteous path of Aram nor abandon their love, all though
their life. The essence of Kamathupal
is not about lust, sex or love alone, like the other previous two, it’s also a
rule based sermon as to how one should live, labour and love to live, more
intimately, more affectionably with all friendliness and smiles on face. Bharathi and Bharathidasan too glorify the
beauty and strength of the eye of the beloved and how the command stemming from
it would invigistrate a man’s energy and accomplish all the impossible things
under the sun. The fact that the eye is
the weapon which actually arrests a person and binds him to fall in love and
rise in life is ably captured by kural.
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