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Dear bhAgavatas,

The following is adiyEn's thought and is not based
on any Acharya's vyakhyanam, so please forgive the
expression of my agnyAnam.

I will take an example to illustrate my thought. Let's
say that we have a sick child at home and we know what
the problem is and exactly which doctor can cure the 
child. Unfortunately, said doctor is not responding to 
our desperate calls for whatever reason (may be he is 
busy, may be he is attending to another more desperate 
case, ...). So what would we do? Do we simply wait for 
the day/time that the doctor becomes available to us or
do we go to another doctor even though we are not sure 
what he/she can do? I'd guess that we give it a try,
even if it is only a local voodoo doctor or "pAtti
vaidhyam".

So, in the case of Andal, I'd venture that She was
desperate to be with Him and had expressed her desire
to both her father Periyazhvar as well as the Lord 
Himself. Yet, neither of them have responded to her in
a fashion that would assure her she would get what she
seeks. He has not shown Himself to her (we have plenty
of evidence for this throughout Nacciyar Thirumozhi)
and Periyazhvar tried to get her maried off to another
mortal, so much so she had to threaten "mAnidavarkkenRu
pEccuppadil vAzhakillEn". So, what is she to do? She
is willing to go to anyone and ask that they take her 
to Him - even if she truly knows that only He can take
her to Himself. Therefore, she picks on this uncommon
ritual of worshipping Kamadeva willing to give it a
shot.

I seek bhAgavatas to correct adiyEn's blabberings.

adiyEn
TCA Venkatesan

--- "vaidhehi_nc <nappinnai_nc@xxxx>"
<nappinnai_nc@xxxx> wrote:
> Sri:
> Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
> Dear Mukunda,
> The question was why should ANdAL go to
> kAmadEva(not for 




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