Thiruppavai series 2020, Day 3 of Margazhi: 18 December 2020

JOY OF ABUNDANCE
Here I am, on this third day of Margazhi,Risen to sing the praises of Your name,Oh, how I pine for a glimpse of You In Your temple of Brindaranyam,But mundane life has me bound.
I fret at the weariness of the choresAnd close my eyes in despair...But in that darkness, what do I see in my chidakasha?Your cosmic Form!In just strides two, You have taken overMy worlds three,Permeating them with the exhilaration of Love!
O Divine Love!Oh, what joy! My ecstatic heart flutters as a bee's wings,Exulting in the honeyed sweetness of Your gaze!My lips, like red paddy, quiver with blissAs the chants of Your Name caress them!My fish-like eyes dance a sprightly swayAs a smile swims friskily into themReflecting the scintillating aura of Your being!The hairs on my arms stand on endAs thoughts of You tickle my emotionsLike welcome showers that fall upon an upturned face!
O Utthama! O my Lord Parthasarathy!Humbled am I, as Kothai would have been,And as I go about my earthly tasks,I agonize no more,For I know I am a cow with an udder brimmingWith the milk of compassion,For, when You have assumed my entire being,Am I not living In the abundance of giving?
Footnotes:chidakasha: the dark, infinite space that we 'see' when we close our eyes; the space of consciousnessworlds three: referring to the three states of the physical, mental, and emotional

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, my Flautist of Brindaranyam.
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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...4. Sri Andal's Thiruppavai: https://www.sadagopan.org/pdfuploads/...www.facebook.com