Thursday, January 21, 2016

Revisiting kural:while leaning on the slender shoulder...there is supreme pleasure.

 One of my students who has more possessive and blind love towards me, sent a message : Sir,why no post today ? I replied that I had to work on the china paper and send it to the editor . Earlier Prem  used to put pressure on me to write  and once in a csual way remarked  (to tease me ?) and also tell the truth  that my extempore comments as a reaction in the Face book  looks more good than the blog writing .I was pleasantly shocked by her quick wit . As if to prove she is right I wrote a detailed comment yesterday for her comment, recalling my Pune Gohhale Institute days  and she must have been happy to read that.
Thirukkural is a treasure house of wisdom.It has been  translated into many languages  and there is no  dearth of it in English .And yet I have chosen to do  my own interpretation to add more richness and beauty. This is a field where more one reads the more he or she realizes the limits of his or her  ignorance.
All the 1330  couplets  encompassing Aram ,porul ,Inbam are pregnant with deeper meaning and greater insight.There are different interpretations and language play is also visible ;   slowly,  gradually  I will attempt to present a unified and holistic picture about the life game which is now forgotten  by mankind  fully seduced by materialistic culture mostly triggered by the process of globalization and the resulting capitalist civilization.we shall come to transltation:
# Is there any supreme pleasure in this materialistic world
During earthly existence other than leaning on
The slender shoulder of my beloved
And get tossed and turned by that intoxicant like a
Lotus flower bloom, following the sunrise.
Before I conclude let me say….Be yourself;make an appppointment with yourself;and have date with yourself.Relax and enjoy  and do not forget to laugh



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