Decad:7 Thiruvempaavai Sub-title: Sakthiyai Viyanthathu (Amazed at the act of Sakthi) Abstract: In this delightful song of girls the bridal mysticism of the saintis expressed. The saint as the lady-love is infatuated with divine love for Civan. It is passionless passion for Him. It appears as if it is pre-matured. However the damsel is deeply engrossed in meditation and is crying off and on, “Oh my Lord, Oh my Lord!” in her ceaseless yearning for His hands. She is rolling in the flower-strewn bed with streaming eyes and sob after sob pierces her frame. She appears to be senseless when she lies down causing wonder and anxiety to the girls who have come to her door to wake her up. The lady-love does not speak to the girls who appear at first to be unaware of her divine love for God. But when they sing of Maadevan, her lover, the very mention of the name makes a thrill in her body and she rolls in an ecstatic swoon. But when the girls begin to snub her saying, “Have you fallen in love with your flower-strewn bed?”, she flares up “Is this the place for joke? Is this the behaviour of the hand-maids of the Lord? Who are we to say that we are in love with the Lord”? Again she is in divine communion with the Lord. She is so deeply engrossed in her divine love for Him that even when the girls sing in praise of Him and cry out “Oh Civan, Oh Civan” she is notable to comprehend even their adoration of the Lord (5). The girls are puzzled and ask her, “What kind of sleep is this?”(7) She does not appear to pay heed to their words. 364
