Madhura-Kavi : poet-saint, disciple of Nammalwar, one of the twelve Alwārs.
... of a tamarind tree by the side of the village temple. It was under this tree that he was first seen by his disciple, the Alwar Madhura-kavi,—for the latter also is numbered among the great Twelve, "lost in the sea of Divine Love". Tradition says that while Madhura-kavi was wandering in North India as a pilgrim, one night a strange light appeared to him in the sky and travelled towards the South.... silent. Madhura-kavi then put to him the following enigmatical question, "If the little one (the soul) is born into the dead thing (Matter) 1 what will the little one eat and where will the little one lie?" to which Nammalwar replied in an equally enigmatic style, "That will it eat and there will it lie." Subsequently Nammalwar permitted his disciple to live with him and it was Madhura-kavi who ...
... a tamarind tree by the side of the village temple. It was under this tree that he was first seen by his disciple, the Alwar Madhura-kavi, — for the latter also is numbered among the great Twelve, "lost in the sea of Divine Love". Tradition says that while Madhura-kavi was wandering in North India as a pilgrim, one night a strange light appeared to him in the sky and travelled towards the South... although he waited for hours the Samadhi did not break until he took up a large stone and struck it against the ground violently. At the noise Nammalwar opened his eyes, but still remained silent. Madhura-kavi then put to him the following enigmatical question, "If the little one (the soul) is born Page 163 into the dead thing (Matter)* what will the little one eat and where will the little... little one lie?" to which Nammalwar replied in an equally enigmatic style, "That will it eat and there will it lie." Subsequently Nammalwar permitted his disciple to live with him and it was Madhura-kavi who wrote down his songs as they were composed. Nammalwar died in his thirty-fifth year, but he has achieved so great a reputation that the Vaishnavas account him an incarnation of Vishnu himself ...
... present) in the consciousness, governing all the activities 6) Dasya of Madhura the personal relation of the Jiva with Krishna—the dasya (to be) tertiary with the most intense consciousness of passive yantrabhava in the whole system. 7) Acceptance of all bhoga as a slave & instrument of the Lover to be the principle of the madhura. Among the first four affirmations, 3 & 4 are powerfully developing... shadow of personality in the intellect has now to be exiled. Neither external action nor internal action is in the least to be determined by personal or intellectual choice. The Kavi in the Manishi has to give place to the pure Kavi dependent on the Ishwara, Krishna (Chaitanya, Sachchidananda). Utthapana Arms. 2½ hours; interrupted. Relics of yesterday's depression caused certain recurrences... and perfecting in the mind & prana and there is a firm though not always equable or well-distributed sense of the passive yantrabhava in the whole system. But the dasya is not yet the dasya of the Madhura except at times because the subjective Ananda of karma-siddhi asiddhi is not yet perfect in the chitta. Hence the acceptance of all bhoga as a slave & instrument of the Master is near completion ...
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