INTRODUCTION TO
THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 86
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The secret meetings and exchange of looks are of course physical and physiological, but the psychological development of love caused by those two factors takes them to the intimate region of the sexual pleasure and the ultimate result is pressure of hands or a chaste kiss or warm embrace. The lover is pleased to express his experience to the embrace, in a couplet :
பிணிக்கு மருந்து பிறமன் அணியிழை
தன்நோய்க்குத் தானே மருந்து (86)
i. e. disease and medicines are two different things incompatible with each other, but in the case of sickness caused by the love of a lady, she is the only efficacious remedy. Of course, the embrace of a lover is warm but when withdrawn it burns like a fire and when embraced again it is soothing. As the lad has had no previous experience, he was surprised and. then he exclaimed that his lady love had a wonderful fire which burnt him ‘when left and cooled him when met’ and he further inquired of himself as to where she could have obtained it. The embraces never affect the ever increasing strangeness of pleasure derived at any and every time just like the study of great books sheds forth new light every time we read.
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