(Continued...)
In fact he gets the fluency and
the power of speech which only great writers have. And the shloka uses a specific word here: ‘mahatAm bhangi rucibhiH’
. The word ‘ruci’ means ‘taste’, or ‘flavour’. ‘Taste’
certainly has an association with the tongue and the food which it ‘tastes’.
But the shloka
adds on to this
the ‘flavour’ by the nose also. The food ‘taste’ was indicated by the last line
of shloka
(#15) where it
was said that the speech prompted by ambaaL has the taste of ‘honey, milk and grapes’. Now in this shloka that speech is likened to a profound flavour, not of any
ordinary one, but of that which emanates from the lotus face of Her who is the
single vAgdevI
integrating all
the eight vAgdevIs!
Not only that. We can infer from
this that it is not simply the speech that emanates through the poetry of the
devotee has the divine flavour; the people who read and recite that poetry
would also get that divine flavour.!!
(Continued...)
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