தெய்வப் பாடல்கள்

Introduction

For Bharathiyar devotion was not fear but affection sung aloud. He never leaves God standing at a distance: he brings God down as mother, brother, comrade and child, and talks to each. 'I want a piece of land' is a small request made to God; 'Muruga! Muruga!' is a cry; the worship of the sun is a hymn to light. So devotion, knowledge, beauty and freedom are not separate rooms in this book.nnThe accent of classical Tamil devotional poetry and the speed of the new Tamil song meet here. The words are old, the thinking is new. In the Krishna songs the memory of foreign conquest sounds; in the Shakti songs, confidence in power; in the songs of wisdom, the search for something in us that death cannot touch.