Islam and Kothai...

I tread this path carefully.. why is that all of a sudden I started this comparison? How is kothai related to Islam? She adored the deities of Srivilliputtur, Sri rangam, Tirupati and Tirumaliruncholai. She ultimately became one with the reclining lord of Sri rangam. She even proffered a hundred measures of butter and another hundred measures of akkara adisil ( a sweet dish made of rice , ghee and jaggery) to the lord of Tirumaliruncholai, if her union with lord of Sri rangam was possible. She pleads with one god for her union with the same god in another name in another place. Isn’t this what the prophet had rejected?  He called upon to submit to the one and only God. While our girl, appeals to the cupid( Manmatha) to interfere on her behalf for her union with her lord. In another verse, where she dreams of her marriage with her lord, she tells Goddess Durga , lord Indra were from  the bride’s side siring the  nuptial ceremony. She involves so many dieties, but she is clear in attaining the one and the only lord..Kannan.

If I google search the meaning of Islam, it says that islam is derived from a root word- salema, or surrender. With further search, the first verse of Qur’an and the 29^th pasuram of Kothai’s tiruppavai sounds similar..

To compare those verses..

The Opening( Al- Fatihah)

....Iyakka na’budu wa iyyaka nasta’in

......

Sirat alladhina an’amta ‘alayhim..

( Thee only do we serve; thee alone do we ask for help.

.....Not the path of those who incur Thy wrath)

The opening is the first chapter of qur’an

Of kothai’s verse

உந்தன்னோடு , உற்றோமே ஆவோம், உனக்கே நாம் ஆட்செய்வோம் 

மற்றை நம் காமங்கள் மாற்றேலோரெம்பாவாய்..,

(  we belong unto thee ,and thee only do we serve,

I pray, bless us from veering into other desires)

Isn’t this a total submission, a surrender to the One and only lord. Perfect example of salema? Isn’t Kothai the embodiment of salema of south India? Oh, but we have Mira bai beyond the Vindhyas..

akkara adisil.. thanks.. elaichii.blogspot.com

(Actually kothai writes.. today, forever, in all our births.. we belong unto thee.. and thee only we serve.. this inspired me to write this following writeup.)

I am yours, you are mine..

What does but come between us?

You sent people to rejoice

When I first opened my eyes

And when my eyes remain closed

I wouldn’t hear all those wails..

Then,I wouldn’t have a tongue

To say your sweet thousand names

Nor  an eye to see your form

To behold all those purest thoughts

Melt in you, the greater glow

Or be a dot , in darkness though..

I would be yours and you are mine..

till you send me forth again..

(Hope, Yvonne and Hephzibah should say what their scriptures say about surrender... )