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This title, which forms the burthen of the poem, is given to one of the Sage’s most interesting compositions. It consists of fifty quatrains, constructed in a beautiful metre (see my Second Grammar 192) which is in fact epichoriambic (as is explained in the notes to the Tamil text). It is called Anthathi poem. This […]
(composed in Tillai, tiru vatavurar puranam, v. 62) The sacred foot that danced in Tillai’s city old Is His, Who in all varied lives has energized; Revealed in beauty of innumerous, varied qualities; In earth, in sky, and in celestial worlds. All ordered lore hath He revealed, and He made void. || 5 || My […]
This has always been considered the first of Manikka-vacagar’s poems, and it has all the characteristics of a preface, as enumerated in the Nannul; but its very technical completeness makes its genuineness doubtful; and it rather apperars to have been added by the Tillai assembly when the lyrics of the Saint were first collected. In […]
227) Question : What is mukti? Answer : Emancipation from Pasa or Mala Bandha and attaining Bliss or Ananda Anubhava. 228) Question : Can the emancipated soul come back? Answer : It cannot come back just as river once amalgamated with the ocean cannot come back. 229) Question : How is soul amalgamated with God […]
208) Question : What is the first Sadana or practice for emancipating oneself from Pasa and attaining Bliss? Answer : To acquire learning and to act up to it. 209) Question : What is the second mode of attaining Bliss? Answer : To obtain initiation in the presence of a spiritual teacher. 210) Question : […]
162) Question : How many kinds of Pasa are there? Answer : Three kinds of bandams which fetter the soul are:- 1. Anavam (Ignorance the souls’s inherent impurity or imperfection). 2. Karma (the sum total of human action, involved as cause and effect, producing pleasure and pain, and causing rebirths). 3. Maya (cosmic matter). 163) […]
221) Question : What is Gnanam which is not experienced similar to? Answer : It is similar to dream. 222) Question : Can you express your experiences to the public? Answer : You should not express your experiences to the public just as you would not tell others when you have found out a treasure. […]
135) Question : What is meant by Pasu? Answer : That which is bound, soul. 136) Question : By what is it bound? Answer : By anavamala or soul’s inherent impurity or imperfection. 137) Question : What is the other name for atma which is bound by anavamala? Answer : Anu or atom. 138) Question […]
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. […]
59) Question : Do eyes have light? Answer : Yes. 60) Question : Does nothing come out of nothing? Answer : No. 61) Question : Which is prior, either cause or effect? Answer : Cause is prior to the effect. 62) Question : What is reality? Answer : That which exists will exist, that which […]
