Tiruppavai
Today was a great day for me! I finished reading the Tiruppavai and the Varanam Aayiram. And loved it. I regret I wont be able to read it in Tamil. But I shall soon learn the recitation in Tamil from my mother. I know the first few verses already. The meaning is lovely: who can resist loving Krishna? All the stanzas where the young girls ask their girlfriends to wake up early on, resonates so much with my current dilemma between waking early and dozing some more. Ha ha! It's a dilemma of great magnitude it seems...as if it is to do with the very zest one feels for life and the cozy invitation of the bed, and the inimitable, sweetest sleep that touches you at exactly at 7 am, which Tagore too salutes quite nicely somewhere. The psychology of the late risers is so aptly captured in this text! Next in line on my ever-expanding reading list is the biography of Shri Ramanuja.