Thread by @Saiarav

A close friend called me to explain the meaning of this poem called Kolaru Pathigam written by the great Thirugnanasambandhar (the one who was breastfed by Mother Parvathy as a child) . I really don't have words to describe it.

https://twitter.com/smitabarooah/status/1662471472290598914

I am totally unfit to explain this hymn - i hope someone with a deep knowledge of Tamil and Shaivite Bhakti tradition does justice to it. But for my own satisfaction, I will do a thread explaining the background and summarize the meaning.
First of all, all of you need to know

that Thirugnanasambadhar was a gigachad of gigachad - Mother Parvathy herself came down to feed him as a small child when he was crying due to hunger. Just my absolute favorite story in Periyapuranam - the stories of 63 famous Shiva devotees or Nayanmaar (hv I told u that this

land of mine is soaked in Hindu bhakti tradition - from Shiva to Lord Muruga to Vishnu).
So anyway, this is the story about Sambandhar. The milk of wisdom has been fed to the three year old!

He is now, of course, literally a force of nature and is totally unstoppable. In a short life spanning just 16 years, he contributed to the revival for the Shaivite tradition, composing 1000s of verses in praise of his favorite Lord Shiva.

Now coming to Kolaru Pathigam, it is said that he about to start on a critical mission when his senior, Appar asked him not to proceed because the time was inauspicious. Well, Sambandhar just writes a poem appealing to his Father to remove all the ill-effects of planets.

And that is Kolaru Pathigam (songs about the planets, I think it means).
Very apt prayer for a person who is in charge of a country of 1.4bn, no?
It consists of 11 verses. It is just utterly beautiful in Tamil but even the English translation, u can feel
slokas.yolasite.com/resources/kola…

the bhakti. In almost every verse, while extolling Shiva, he does not forget to describe the Lady who fed him milk as a young kid :)
Namachivaya vazhga 🙏🙏

The blue-throated Lord who has has drunk poison, the other half of Parvathy has entered by heart. Therefore all the nine planets will do good, good and only good things!!!