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of despondency sets him to ponder over. The saint Maanickavaachagar sings: Who am I? What is this mind of mine about? Is there anybody to care for me? (10:2). Am I heard at all? Why have I been born? What is the purpose of my birth? By this kind of introspection and deep thinking perhaps he narrates how he passed through various kinds of births in the biological kingdom before he was born as human being and how the thought of God was dawn in him: “Grass was I; herb was I: worm, tree as full moay a kind of bcasts, birds, snake, stoneygoblins and demons was i: as mighty giants, ascetics, devaas was I. Thus within these immobic and mobilc forms of life I have been born in every kind of birth and I am wearied, Oh my Lord!” (Thiruvaachakam : 1:26-31). He points out how he escaped as a human föcius is the mother's womb during all the ten moon-months from the different kinds of troubles and finally from the sea of miscry along with the mother in the tenth month (4:11:25). He recollects further how he cscaped from all sorts of troubles and sorrow all the years of nights and days like hunger, work, sieep, traver education, wealth and poverty till he became a youth. He sings how he escaped from the piercing glances of maidens with black tresses, red lips, pearly teeth and charming youthful breasts (4:25-30). After escaping from all these miserable things, the thought of God was born in him. The moment when the thought of God was born in him he had to face six-crores of delusive powers like the dogma, of Maayaavaadam, Epicurianism, Sectarianism and Atheism (4:36-58). - == == = -- == * * o in their faith in God like a nail driven into a Soft tree, worshipped Him with melting heart like wax before firewept, He describes how the devotees like him “ཨེ་མ་སྔ། ། firm 39