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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