சிற்றின்பம் vs பேரின்பம் Earthly pleasures vs Divine pleasures

 சிற்றின்பம்  vs  பேரின்பம்   Earthly  pleasures vs Divine pleasures

 

By

Kidambi Srinivasan

 

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

 

In tamil literature  and philosophy  there are lot of references to Chithinbam and Perinbam. Literally translated it means, small pleasures  and big pleasures.Chithinbam is commonly understood as sexual pleasure and Perinbam, godly pleasure. I found a great write up about what they are by Sri Kidambi srinivasan in https://kidambisrinivasan.wordpress.com/  and I felt that  this great knowledge should spread  .Here is an attempt

 

 

Earthly  pleasures (சிற்றின்பம்)	Divine pleasures(பேரின்பம்)
Attracted  by creation	Attracted by creator
Enjoying  creation	Worshipping creation
Seeing  creation as creation	Seeing God in creations
This life is by me	This life is by God
Thinking  I am the body	Thinking I am the soul
Getting peace  and joy temporarily	Getting peace and joy permenantly
Doing everything for  yourself	Doing everthing for God
Thinking  I am doing	Thinking  God is doing
Finding joy in outside happenings	Finding forever joy inside
Never getting satisfied in the joy we get	Not desiring   for anything
That which hides  permanent spiritual joy	That joy which is beyond temporary earthly joys
That which makes body   related with mind	That which merges  mind with soul
Sorrow in form of joy	That which appears as sorrow but leads to joy
God  is somewhere else	God is everywhere
That which gives weakness  sickness, sorrow and death	That which gives  great  life without death
That  which gives fear instability suspicion and criminal feeling	That which does not have fear, stable and pure
When small things make you happy	That which makes you dissolve in limitless godliness
That which makes use of others	That which makes you sacrifice  for others
That which is limited and will end	That which is unlimited  and is foever
That which reduces your wisdom	That which makes  wisdom shine
If we worship only  beauty	That which makes ugliness  and prettiness same
That which is done for purpose	That which is done without bothering  for purpose
That which is sweet first and bitter next	That which is bitter first   and sweet next
That which is improper   and without mercy	That which is full of mercy and very proper
That which sees everything as body	That which makes you see  everything as soul
That which gets joy from sense organs	That which goes beyond   sense organs
If mind wanders in this world only	If mind attains God
That which makes fear  of death	That which wins over death
If you exist within mind	If you go beyond mind
If you see things as different	If you see  everything as one
If you see as part	If you see as whole
If you  are  proud	If we forsake pride
If yiu find pleasure in flesh	When you loose yourself in love
When man gets enjoyment from wemon	When Man salutes  a woman
The joy you get at sleeping time	That joy  which is there even after you sleep
The joy which can be  given by living beings	That joy which can only be given by God
That which is about world	That which is about God
Not seeing comfort of others	Not seeing our own comfort
The joy without  joy	That joy of joy
That which is liked  by ignorance	That  which is liked  by wisdom
When you become glad  after  getting	When you get glad after  giving
That which makes you loose strength	That which becomes strength
That which leads to attachment	That which is detachment
That which changes and jumps	That which does not change and is stable
That  which is temporary	That which is permanent

Soul is God!!!!