Before meditating on the theme of falling in love and rising in life I wasted to give my namaskar to the almighty and almost written seven to eight pages.They need to be typed. Meanwhile I would like to post the tailor on love.
As stated earlier
there is no space to chart in detail about all the facets of love life as
depicted by Valluvar. We shall highlight the essence of this subject by making
recourse to a few kurals. The lovers in the conceptualization of Valluvar are
experiencing not an ordinary love. It is not a mere lust or infatuation towards
the attractive features of the opposite
sex/the tenderness of female body. That is, it cannot merely be termed as a carnal animal pleasure
or an ordinary/pedestrian love. It is a psychic and divine love which will help
elevate humanity. The young man’s friendship with the beautiful damsel is
compared to the relationship between the body and the
soul. The analogy that Valluvar gives:
when the girl is closer to him there is life and the moment she moves
away from him there is only death is the sum and substance of the entire
kamathupal (1125). Like body and soul,
eye and the eyelids, life and life force, the hero develops a psychic love
towards the girl.
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