Krishna The Butter Bandit by Swetha Sundaram

Kumari Swetha is from an AastikA Family in Srirangam and is a devoted Sishyai of Sri AhObila Matam AchArya paramparai. Together, ThiruppallANDU and ThiruppAvai constitute thus the Maha Mantram of AshtAksharam. ThiruppallANDu prabhandham of PeriyAzhwAr is considered as the essence of PraNavam and ANDAL's Thiruppaavai is recognised as the quintessence of namO NaarAyaNAya sabdham. She is the foster daughter of PeriyAzhwAr. I am happy to respond to the request of Kumari Swetha Sundaram of Calgary, Canada to write a foreword for her excellent book Thiruppavai – Goda’s Gita, ANDAL’S Celestial Song on the divine ThiruppAvai Prabhandham of the Soodikkoduthta NaacchiyAr from Srivilliputthur. Kaisika EkAdaSi, GitA AvatAra Jayanthi dinam I am sure, the readers of this book will have a wonderful and sui generis experience of Thiruppavai. I convey my best wishes to the author and am sure she will get the blessings of Aandaal and Her elder brother Bhagavad Ramanuja. She has published many other books on various subjects like Krishna – The Butter Bandit, Green Banana & Lentil Diet, etc which are both informative and educative. She is also learning the works of Bhagavad Ramanuja. Her interest in studying our ancient scriptures is worth mentioning. I was very much elated on viewing the author's way of presentation and her pragmatic approach to the chaste verses of Aandaal. This book, no doubt, belongs to the third category. Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Though there are many books on Aandaal Nachiyar's Thiruppavai, this book thus stands out as a unique one as it encompasses all the commentaries extensively in one place. She also underwent a kalakshepam of the commentary of Periyavachchan Pillai the Three Thousand Padi on Tiruppavai to enrich this work. It gives me immense pleasure to write the foreword to this wonderful commentary which is a compilation of all that is the best in all the classical commentaries of THIRUPPAVAI and also lecture by authentic scholars on Thiruppavai by Ms Swetha Sundaram.

Krishna The Butter Bandit by Swetha Sundaram