Yet Another Love Story, This Time A Perfect One!

dear sowpar,

you know, when we are kids, we begin a count down to diwali...everyday, on getting up, we think, it only 5 more days away, just 4 days away, etc...

We used to do the same thing, but with a difference. I and my two brothers are chartered accountants. So when we were kids, just potential accountants, we used to count the hours for Diwali. Like 192 hours, 168 hours and so on. When we are in full mood we used to go down to minutes and seconds.

like that, i was awaiting Friday for the past few days to see what your next love story would be....

I am honoured, Sowpar.

Thanks for bringing Paanan from Ponni's banks to our PCs.... :)

You are most welcome. From our PCs Paanan should get into our hearts. That's where he belongs.

like serial directors, you have an uncanny knack for choosing the right places to end an episode...seriyaana edathula thodarum potutel... :)

Thanks again for the compliment. There is a difference between the serial thodarum and my thodarum. There the intention is to increase the TRP rating. But here I want to stop at the right place so that you can keep on thinking about the story during the interval. And you can also think about the various possibilities for the story ending. But if you had not known the story and you simply guess the ending, you will be surprised to know How God wrote the story to give a perfect ending.
The same is the case with our lives too, Sowpar. We think we are writing our life-story and get confused about the ending. Whereas in reality He writes it and and the beauty is that He knows what would be the perfect ending for our stories (and He knows perfect beginnings and perfect middles too)

well, when the Universal Mother herself does her recommendations, Paanan is ofcourse sure to be showered with the most benign grace....

But what kind of Grace! If I am given a next birth and God to whom nothing is impossible, can shift gears in the time machine, I would love to be born as a dust happily settled on Paanan's feet. That would be the real heavan.

maybe there are no perfect love stories....or maybe every love story is perfect in itself....when one is really in love, maybe the only thing that matters is the love itself...and not whether it fructifies into a relationship thats sustainable....
hmmm....maybe its better to love and to lose than to not know love at all...
well, who has the perfect answer to the enigma that is love....

You are right, Sowpar. I have used an almost similar dialogue in HE Episode 4 when Sethu answers the questions of an irate member of the audience.

whatever form it takes, its the only thing that makes the world thrive...
அன்பு தனில் செழித்திடும் வையம்...

Right, once again.

thanks for the nice fb, sowpar.
love,

You are right, Sriniketan. I will just add one raider to it. The Gopura Dharshanam has to be accompanied with that kind of love. "kaadhalaaki kasinthu kanneer malgi" kind of love.
I used to go to Kudalagar Koil in Madurai. Incidentally that is one of the very rare places where Perumal is in Veetrirundha Thirukkolam. He is sitting ready to bless us.
When we do the pradakshanam in the outer prakaram there is a place where people will stop and do an "urgent" Gopura Dharshanam. Just gently slapping their cheeks with their hands and then resume the pradakshanam.
There is a world of difference between Paanan doing it and our doing it.

FBs and your replies are always a treat to the readers...
waiting to read the next episode of Thiruppaazhwar'...

Thanks. The next episode is coming soon. Stay tuned.

Originally Posted by Sriniketan

sridhar,
'Gopura dharisanam kodi puniyam'...
Paanan had that puniyam..too...
FBs and your replies are always a treat to the readers...
waiting to read the next episode of Thiruppaazhwar'...

sriniketan

Dear Sridhar please..please apologise for my late entry......

Its again a wonderful Love story from your sir....Panan... I think i have heard this story from my Dad in childhood but my memory is very poor.. but I dont remeber it except the name..


"""""""""""''“Lakshmi, my temple, even the best one at Srirengam is not as holy as his love for me. If he sets his foot in my temple, I am afraid, he would become slightly impure. I have something else for him. Paana is a phenomenon which occurs once in a million years. And I should give him something which has not been given to any other human being. Just watch the fun"""""""""""

I think Panan is very lucky to get these words from god..... He deserves this because of the pure love he had in god...
God doesnt expect even a single coin from us.. he needs only pure love....but many fail to know this....

You have triggered my reading skills sir.... I am going to get these books from my Dad's libarary and read all these when i go to India.....and am going to ask you Questions.... :)


Waiting for the next episode...

Love
Brindha.

Dear Kamla,

While reading my post was absolute pleasure for you, reading your fb is even more so for me. When a senior member, a mother, a grand mother, and above all a nice person so many nice things about my writings, I feel not just flattered but elated.

I had the good fortune of meeting a very senior ILite. (No clues. He is a man;and I am not referring to Cheeniya sir).That ILite told me that one day from 10 PM in the night till 3AM next morning he read all the posts written by you. The one clear conclusion he had was that your writings were full of grace and love. A singular honour which is not and cannot be shared by any one else in IL. Sorry for the long prelude, Kamla.

Talking about stories, I have found that there are two types. From one type we learn something. Like the simple story of the crow stealing the vadai. But the other type transforms us irrevocably. In the first type we would have to take some efforts to learn. But as far as the second type is concerned we need not do any thing. We'll have to just keep our mind open and the story would do the rest. Villi's story, Paanan's story belong to the second category.

I am planning to fill up my forums with some of the second category stories I loved. And this will happen even after I start my serial. (Incidentally my serial belongs to which category? I think they'd come nowhere near the two. They are just means to pass off time.)

Ajit-Devayani, or for that matter, whatever love story we see in the big and the small screens is nothing but highly diluted synthetic milk powder, while the originals like Paanan's and Villi's are pure cow's milk.

Much has been said about the caste system. I would like to share this simile now. Let's suppose a hundred years from now this professional and corporate classification becomes more and more rigid. Then we will have the Doctors' caste, the Accountants' caste, the General Managers' caste, the CEOs caste, the Salesmen's Caste and so on. The Accountant's caste might be superior to the Salesmen's but definitely inferior to the CEO's. And there would be a battle raging on to find who is superior - the Accountants or the General Managers.

Now shift the scene a few hundred years back and in the place of the modern castes insert the words, priests, warriors, traders and workmen. Now you have a nasty, man-insulting-man caste system in place.

For God everything is a prank or play. We cannot afford to play as we have need for one thing or the other and so we need to expend efforts to get it. God has and is everything. If He wished he could have by the blink of the eye given the whole universe to Paanan. But He wants to play and at the height happiness will look like grief. You are right Paanan has gone through baptism by fire. But let me not spoil the suspense.
And don't try to get to know the story from any other source. Keep waiting my dear friend. Believe me I can never afford to disappoint a person like you.

love,

Originally Posted by Kamla

Dear Sridhar,

This was another absolute pleasure from you. And I welcome this new trend in your writing. It is really very satisfying to read stories from our past with strong cultural and moral base. Some we may know and many are new. This way, one can brush up on the faded memories or read and understand the lovely stories with a new interpretation and when you pen them, we get the added bonus of great exchange of ideas and much more to learn.
In this day and age where we click the button to watch some movie on the tv, when you mention 'kaanamal kadhal', true, Ajith and Devyani are the ones who jump into our thoughts! Hence, Villi and Paana are a very welcome change.
Even I wondered about Paana's veena playing abilities considering he was from the low of the lowest caste. But the further discussions on that subject was very interesting and informing. So, that's exactly what I meant about learning about culture through your threads. I am also awaiting for the next episode. Although, when the Great Lord says He is going to play a prank on Paana, my heart sinks a bit. Though I already know Paana will get his panah (shelter) at His feet, I dread to think as to what fires of testing he will have to march through. Hope he is not tested too much. Sigh!
Your observations on khadi wearing gentlemen and purity of love was very enjoyable.
If one had the insight of Paana, the glorius darshan of the distant temple gopuram is any day better than the sanctum sanctorium of the temple where you have to press a currency note into the palm of the priest to get a whole 30 seconds darshanam of the Lord!
Till next week Sridhar.......And oh yes, even when you plunge into your new romantic novel, please do not stop giving us these little culture based stories.

L, Kamla

Dear Brindha,

Absolutely no need to apologise when we are talking about the highest form of love.You are welcome at any time.

When you say that my writings have driven you to your Dad's library in India, I feel proud. Suddenly all the lonely hours spent before the system appear justified.

God doesn't even expect us to love him. But we should know love, whether it be for God, our partner or our pet, is the only way for us to evolve and grow.


I am eagerly waiting for you to ask questions. It will be my pleasure to give you the answers, if I know. In either case I will be learning.

love,

Originally Posted by brindhak

Dear Sridhar please..please apologise for my late entry......

Its again a wonderful Love story from your sir....Panan... I think i have heard this story from my Dad in childhood but my memory is very poor.. but I dont remeber it except the name..


"""""""""""''“Lakshmi, my temple, even the best one at Srirengam is not as holy as his love for me. If he sets his foot in my temple, I am afraid, he would become slightly impure. I have something else for him. Paana is a phenomenon which occurs once in a million years. And I should give him something which has not been given to any other human being. Just watch the fun"""""""""""

I think Panan is very lucky to get these words from god..... He deserves this because of the pure love he had in god...
God doesnt expect even a single coin from us.. he needs only pure love....but many fail to know this....

You have triggered my reading skills sir.... I am going to get these books from my Dad's libarary and read all these when i go to India.....and am going to ask you Questions.... :)


Waiting for the next episode...

Love
Brindha.

Lovely BF,

This pure love so beautifully described is beyond description. I am now eager to See what "Prank" the Lord of the world plays on his loving Devotee.

Eagerly awaiting the next bit. Sorry for the late entry.

Regards,

Your GF

Thanks GF. The Good Lord always wants to play pranks on his devotees. You see when Kuchelan came to him for help, he could have given him something straight away.
Instead he welcomed him like his equal. And as a good friend, the story goes, he and his Devi Mahalakshmi washed Kuchelan's feet and made him sit in the finest of thrones. And then they fed him with the richest of foods. In return what Kuchelan could give was some old aval kept in a dirty bag. Krishna accepted it with grace and ate it with enthusiasm.
In the melee Kuchelan forgot the purpose of his visit. Krishna also forgot to enquire why had he come all the way to Dwaraka. He told this to Mahalakshmi.

Legend says that the Devi thought of this with concern and saw the way Kuchelan had gone. The whole way, his house,his people were all covered in wealth.
Did the Lord forget Kuchela's poverty? Not at all. He wanted Devi to see him with some concern.
Let's see what Renganatha has in store for Paana.
Being my GF you should not mind about the late entry. Of course I would mind about non-entry. But not late entry. ha ha

Your BF

Originally Posted by corallux

Lovely BF,

This pure love so beautifully described is beyond description. I am now eager to See what "Prank" the Lord of the world plays on his loving Devotee.

Eagerly awaiting the next bit. Sorry for the late entry.

Regards,

Your GF

Dear BF,

thanks for one more beautiful love story and ur description is wonderfull. i really loved the story, i had seen that movie some 10 times because the love in that is pure as u said it is very hard to have love without seeing that person. but ponan is very lucky to get have such love for lord and iam eager to know the prank of the lord, and how ponan reacts for that.

thank u once again bf for ur story.

Whew Sridhar!!

If this is the response I get from you, I shall hurry to read up all your columns and give my fbs!! What more can I wish for than the great ego booster you serve me on the silver platter:))
Thankyou, thankyou and thankyou.
Now the onus of living up to all those praises you have showered upon me rests on my weak shoulders!
Remember, real world is a bit removed from the virtual one...Ha ha ha;)

L, Kamla

Dear GF,
thanks a bunch for your kind words of praise. I too saw the movie Kaadhal Kottai a number of times. In the climax scene when Devayani recognises Ajith and comes running to him, I could not control my tears.
That no doubt is pure love. But that is acting, but this is a real life story. And only after knowing the full story can we tell,whose love was greater, Paanan's or Renganathar's?
Stay tuned Madhu. I will be posting the story sooner than expected.
thanks once again for the fb.
Your BF

Originally Posted by madhumathi1974

Dear BF,

thanks for one more beautiful love story and ur description is wonderfull. i really loved the story, i had seen that movie some 10 times because the love in that is pure as u said it is very hard to have love without seeing that person. but ponan is very lucky to get have such love for lord and iam eager to know the prank of the lord, and how ponan reacts for that.

thank u once again bf for ur story.