THE ESOTERIC
KANDAR ANUBHUTI
THE SECRET TEACHING ON
GOD-EXPERIENCE
(A Treatise on Adwaitic Realization)
OF
SAINT ARUNAGIRINATHAR
| THE ESOTERIC KANDAR ANUBHUTI THE SECRET TEACHING ON GOD-EXPERIENCE (A Treatise on Adwaitic Realization) OF SAINT ARUNAGIRINATHAR | |
 | by N.V. Karthikeyan |  |
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FOREWORD-1*1 Om Skandam Vande Loka-Gurum Om.Salutations to Lord Karttikeya, personification of the Power of Grace of Lord Siva, the Divine Leader of the celestial hosts, the beloved off-spring of Mother Para-Sakthi or Vidya Maya and the mysterious Sadhana-Shakti infilling the pure hearts of sincere seekers on the path to Divine Experience! May His blessings be upon you all! It gives me the greatest pleasure to write these words in respect of this present work, namely, an English rendering of the renowned Tamil work, "Kandar Anubhuti" by the great Saint Sri Arunagirinathar of Thiruvannamalai in South India. This highly mystical, poetical work is shiningly radiant with the Light of Transcendental Experience. The rare and supreme treasure of God-Experience is made available to the eager souls in quest of God through this sublime poem replete with the ecstatic bliss of the wonderful Saint Arunagirinathar who gave it to the world. But locked up in the close confines of the original Tamil language this unparalleled wealth and spiritual treasure was lost to the great majority of the aspirant-world. Therefore, great indeed is my joy that the present translator (a namesake of the Lord Himself) Sri N.V. Karthikeyanji has now rendered a signal service to the non-Tamil-knowing world by bringing into broad day-light, as it were, this lofty spiritual work of the highest order. This unique service is made even more valuable by the most excellent commentary in English upon each one of the verses that make up the work Kandar Anubhuti. The standard of the commentary is very high and bespeaks of the undoubtable spiritual status of the translator and commentator Sri N.V. Karthikeyan. He is known to me personally over these past ten years and I have observed him to be a spiritually evolved soul who has the grace of God and our beloved Guru Maharaj Swami Sivanandaji. He has earned the deepest gratitude of the whole world by this unique spiritual service he has done by undertaking this English version of this mystical poem of Saint Arunagirinathar. During these past three years from 1969 onward, "The Divine Life" monthly journal has had its value greatly enhanced by the appearance in serial form of portions of this present work in regular installments in each monthly issue of the above magazine of our Society. I have observed with great pride and satisfaction the distinctive spiritual progress and maturity of this sincere disciple of our worshipful Gurudeva Sivanandaji Maharaj. While congratulating him upon this excellent work, I also prayerfully wish that the Lord may bestow upon him this same Anubhuti he has so well and ably explained through his very lucid and luminous commentary. May Lord Skanda reveal Himself to him in all His divine glory and grant him the bliss of Aparoksha Anubhuti in this very life! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ *1 Foreword given for the book "Kandar Anubhuti" published by the Divine Life Society in 1972. | ||
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