81) Question : What is meant by Pathi?
Answer : Lord, God, Siva.
82) Question : Is He the One?
Answer : Yes.
83) Question : What is His name?
Answer : Siva Peruman.
84 & 85) Question : What are His attributes or qualities?
Answer : Eight, viz.
1. Self existence.
2. Essential Purity.
3. Intuitive Wisdom.
4. Infinite Intelligence.
5. Immateriality.
6. Mercy.
7. Omnipotence.
8. Limitless Bliss.
86) Question : Give an example of His Omnipresence?
Answer : As fire is concealed in the firewood, so is God concealed in the universe.
87) Question : Has God form, or no form or both form and formless?
Answer : He is all the above three and none of these.
88) Question : Is God changebale (Vikari) or unchangeable (nirvikari)?
Answer : He is unchangable.
89) Question : How does he perform His functions?
Answer : By His will.
90) Question : From what does God create the world?
Answer : From maya, cosmic matter.
91) Question : What is the material cause for the world?
Answer : Maya or matter.
92) Question : What is the Instrumental cause for the world?
Answer : God’s power or Sakti.
93) Question : What is the Efficient cause for the world?
Answer : God.
94) Question : How is the Lord the first of all?
Answer : Like the letter ‘A’ being the first of the Alphabets, the Incomparable Lord is the first of all.
95) Question : Are there any others who are equal to or above the Lord?
Answer : No.
96) Question : What is the Lord’s form?
Answer : Real Love.
97) Question : Through whom does God create the world?
Answer : Through Brahma.
98) Question : Through whom does God preserve the world?
Answer : Through Vishnu.
99) Question : Through whom does God destroy the world?
Answer : Through Rudra.
100) Question : Who is greater, either the creator or the destroyer?
Answer : Rudra, the destroyer is the greater.
101) Question : Can soul give any return to God?
Answer : It cannot just as the world cannot give any return to the rain.
102) Question : What are the eight Forms of God – Ashtamurtham?
Answer :
1. Pritivi-Earth
2. Appu-Water
3. Theyu-Fire
4. Vayu-Air
5. Akas-Ether
6. Chandra-Moon
7. Surya-Sun
8. Atma-Soul.
103) Question : Why is the Lord called Vythianathan?
Answer : Because He cures us of the incurable disease of birth.
104) Question : To whom will He do good?
Answer : To those who love Him.
105) Question : How will He judge of every one’s action?
Answer : He will award reward or punishment according to each man’s desert.
106) Question : How is God unknown or concealed to the ignorant?
Answer : He is unseen just as ghee in milk.
107) Question : How is He known to the wise?
Answer : Just as butter in curd.
108) Question : What darkness does He remove?
Answer : He removes the darkness of ignorance.
109) Question : Has God got pleasure and pain?
Answer : No.
110) Question : Can soul’s intelligence act without God?
Answer : No.
111) Question : How is God nirmalan or the Perfect or Pure Being?
Answer : Just as a perfect mirror.
112) Question : How did God get the name of swami?
Answer : Because he is self-dependent-Saravaswatantra.
113) Question : How is God united to the soul?
Answer : Just as life on soul is united to the body.
114) Question : Is body soul?
Answer : No, because it is an inert matter or object.
115) Question : Can we do anything without the knowledge of God?
Answer : No, because he is omnipresent.
116) Question : What is His temple?
Answer : The heart of those that love him.
117) Question : How can we know Him?
Answer : By Pathignanam or knowledge of God.
118) Question : Has the Lord any beginning or end?
Answer : No. Just as a circle has no beginning or end.
119) Question : What is His body similar to?
Answer : Just as fire or red sky.
120) Question : Is there any difference between the Intelligence of God and that of soul?
Answer : God’s Intelligence is like sun’s light whereas man’s intelligence is like a firefly.
121) Question : Who are Panchakartas?
Answer :
1. Brahma
2. Vishnu
3. Rudra
4. Maheswara
5. Sadasivan
122) Question : How is the Lord hidden in the soul?
Answer : Just as frog concealed within a stone.
123) Question : Is God male, femlae, nor neuter?
Answer : He is neither male, nor female, nor neuter.
124) Question : How are Sivam God, Sakti His Power and Atma Soul related to each other?
Answer : Sivam may be compared to teh Sun; Sakti to the sun’s rays and atma to the light of the eyes which combines with Sun’s light.
125) Question : Does God possess anava or impurity which is the characteristic of atma or soul?
Answer : The Lord possesses no impurity just as the Akas does not possess the impurities pertaining to the air.
126 & 127) Question : How many kinds of Saktis (Powers) does the Lord God possess?
Answer :
1. Para Sakti (Divine life)
2. Tirodana Sakti (Power that conceals)
3. Kriya Sakti (Divine energy)
4. Icha Sakti (Divine Will)
5. Gnana Sakti (Divine Intelligence)
128) Question : What is the form of Parasakti?
Answer : Form of Intelligence.
129) Question : What is meant by Tirodana Sakti?
Answer : The Power that conceals anything.
130) Question : How is Lord united to Sakti (Power)?
Answer : Just as the odor in flowers, the coldness in the water, the heat in the fire.
131) Question : Has God got the actions of Intelligence and Will?
Answer : Yes.
132) Question : Into how many kinds can God be classed according to the several Divine Powers or Sakti?
Answer : May be classed into
1. Sattar
2. Uttiyuttar
3. Piraviruttar.
133) Question : Who is that that performs the Subtle five functions?
Answer : Sattar.
134) Question : Has Sattar any other name?
Answer : He is called also Ilayar.
