Day 2: 17 December 2020

I have woken up on this second day of Margazhi,O my Lord Parthasarathy,As Kothai may have,With trepidation.Will I be able to write thirty verses in thirty days?Forget I did that it is not this "I" that will write themBut the synergism of dots radiating different energies.Forgive me, my Lord, for assuming That behind the closed doors of lockdownYou wouldn't know the goings-on of the world outside.Plans we may have a-plenty, but are they Your plans for us?Why, even the lockdown, isn't that not but Your plan for us?And so, seeing not the darkness, the gloom, I have sat down at Your Feet, In my house, to write this.O my Lord Parthasarathy, fast I may not, These thirty days, from the tasty ghee or the health-giving milk,But fast I will from hurtful thoughts and prejudice;My lustrous hair I will adorn with sweet-smelling jasmineNot to beautify, but as a sacred gift from Your Feet;And the collyrium I apply, the black of Your Form,  Is not as eye make-up but the salve my sight needsTo see through the illusory and perceive Your majesty.This is my worship to you, my KrishnaSo You may keep the dots moving In harmonious solidarity, Wherein my karma does not hinder meThese thirty prayerful songs unto You. 

Please note: This is NOT a translation of the divine verses sung by the revered poet-saint Andal. I have not the qualifications for that undertaking, my greatest limitation being my inability to read and write Tamil. Nor can I claim to be as devoted and as passionate as Andal was to Her Rangamannar. But I do love Krishna in my own way and these verses are just my attempt at writing a poem a day, as Kothai did over the thirty days of Margazhi, centuries ago. The muse for each of these thirty verses are the thirty songs that form the thirty paasurams of Thiruppavai. As I can't read or write Tamil, I have had to look up the Internet for translations and transliterations of Thiruppavai. I have provided the links below. Also for the same reason is why my poetry is in English. I offer this humble work at the Lotus Feet of my Lord Parthasarathy, my Krishna. 
Bibliography:1. THIRUPPAVAI IN ENGLISH http://www.asayana.com/religion/18-2/2. Thiruppavai http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Thiruppavai3. thiruppAvai http://divyaprabandham.koyil.org/inde...
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