Nalapat

NALAPPATANTE CHAKRAVAALACHEMBURULI(The bronze uruli of Horizon by Nalapat) By Suvarna Nalapat .

Is a study on HORIZON (CHAKRAVAALAM ) of Nalapat Narayanamenon.About this a few comments in periodicals :-

“Mathrubhoomi October 8 .1992 Report .
“Religion is not meditation and thoughts of God alone “ –M.P.Veerendrakumar.
M.P.Veerendrakumar,managing Editor of Mathrubhoomi opined that “Religion is not only the thoughts of God and Dhyana but the love of brothers and society also is the active Bhaava of religion “.He was talking on the release function of Nalappatante Chakravaalachempuruli by Dr Suvarna Nalapat and the magazine Darsanabhoomi from Guruvayur.The great personalities of epics and Purana still live in the villages which are the hearts of India .But it is painful that we forget MahathmaGandhi in whom qualities of Rama and Krishna blended. The integration of several cultures was easily made possible here since our heritage is invaluable –said Veerendrakumar.The romantic poetry and thought processes of late Sri Nalapat Narayanamenon is seen in the works of Dr Suvarna Nalapat according to him.

SEEVOLLLI NARAYANAN (Mathrubhoomi 30.5.93)
The faith of Indians is that the ultimate of everything to be known is in Vedanthic thoughts.Because of that each poet tries consciously to fix their thoughts within its boundaries.Nalapat is not different from this.Even while he travels in his world of thoughts freely,he consciously tries to relate it to Indian Vedantha.From that worldview of Nalapat was created his deep thoughts.Dr Suvarna Nalapat by trying to do a in-depth sacred pilgrimage into those thoughts and fields of literature of Nalapat who is her father figure ,is deriving a self-satisfaction .
KuttikrishnaMarar has given a fairly long commentary for Chakravaala.But when we read the commentary of Dr Suvarna,which is done after knowing the new viewpoints which Nalapat obtained from the branches of knowledge as parts of Arshagnana,from the books he read (and his diaries) we get the importance of the field of Experience in the appreciation of poetry.It takes us to several unknown realms of Chakravaala.
I did something without knowing what .
I watched my shadow.
To these lines Marar gives the meaning sin alone to shadow .Dr Suvarna explains its several planes of meanings. The unselfish action(Nishkamakarma)which the poet does here is watching shadows. That is a attempt to know the self through a reflection, a imagery .She also quotes Jung for the explanation.
Otherwise, in what is done without purpose
Lies all benefits
There are actions done with a selfish purpose and without any selfish purpose. While one is watching ones own shadow to know oneself, one does other actions which are not planned but which gives enormous results .The shadow watching is thus not the laziness of a fool, but the meditation as Nishkamakarma of a Gnanayogi for benefit of all.
The imagery which she uses as “the bronze Uruli” which he kept in the snake shrine of Nalaapat has the poetry of Suvarna –In the preface Dr Leelavathy has pointed out.
Ezhumattoor RajaRajavarma (Madhyamam )

Nalappatante Chakravaalachemburuli is a commentary of the short Kavya Chakravaalam by Nalapat NarayanaMenon.He was a Rishi who saw the entire universe in a sandgrain.For him this universe is an eternal wonder. Its paths are eternal,endless,unknown and unfathomable and indefinable. It is this visionary viewpoint which makes the works of Nalapat NarayanaMenon deep as well as enjoyable. When this Bhava reaches its ultimate he created his “Arshagnaana”.In that ascend of the precipice a noticeable stage is the Chakravaala.Arshagnana was first published in 1954.And Chakravala in 1933.The poet is visualizing universe from a sand grain which was put in his hands by a babbling young infant .

The person who is wondering about the Chakravaalachemburuli which was created in the snake shrine of Nalapat ,and immersing deep into its depths explaining its meanings is none other than Suvarna ,who was bloomed from the root of that Banyan tree ( The daughter of the niece of the poet).The commentary of Suvarna fills in the gaps of commentary by Kuttikrishnamarar .Sometimes it is a step ahead as well. The importance of this book is that she has carefully examined his books which has made his viewpoints, and his works .The author holding a professional degree in Medicine is a scholar in Astrology and Astronomy, in linguistics etc and this is evident from the commentary .According to Dr M.Leelavathy who wrote the introduction to this book, this is a sort of finishing a Rishirinam ( the debts to a Rishi) for Dr Suvarna.