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Idiotic pursuit


நக்கீரதேவ நாயனார் அருளிய திரு ஈங்கோய்மலை எழுபது
பதினொன்றாம்  திருமுறை

திருச்சிற்றம்பலம்

கல்லாக் குரங்கு பளிங்கிற் கனி காட்ட
எல்லாக் குரங்கும் உடன் ஈண்டி - வல்லே
இருந்து உகிராற் கற்கிளைக்கும் ஈங்கோயே மேனிப்
பொருந்த அராப் பூண்டான் பொருப்பு.

திருச்சிற்றம்பலம்

nakkIra dhEva nAyanAr nAyanAr aruLiya thiru IN^gOymalai ezupadhu
padhinonRAm thirumuRai

thirucciRRambalam

kallAk kuraN^gu paLiN^giR kanikATTa
ellAk kuraN^gum uDan INDi - vallE
irun^dhu ugirAR kal kiLaikkum IN^gOyE mEnip
porun^tha arAp pUNDAn poruppu.

thirucciRRambalam


Meaning of ingoimalai ezhupathu:


An idiotic monkey showed a fruit in the marble (reflection).
All the monkeys now coming together, tactically sitting (!~),
started to scratch the stone with the nails ! 
That Ingoymalai is the hill of the One, Who wound snakes
fitting in the form.

Notes:
1. IngOy malai ezubadhu is full of enchanting poetic illustration
of nature.
2. The first monkey was an idiot that it mistook the reflection
of the fruit as real. All the monkey flock were more so, that
they started to aggressively scratch the marble to get out the
fruit ! (The case is applicable to humans too, when the false
things are assumed to be the Truth and a flock just follows
blindly with no effort to understand the Truth !)
3. ugir - nail; poruppu - hill.

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