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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| to 'Annamalai Natha' inside that Siva temple. This lady is said to be a descendant of the Dindima Kavi Annamalai Natha. It is believed that the Annamalai Natha in whose memory the altar was built is our Arunagiri, because Arunagiri, being a divine-inspired poet and saintly soul of an extraordinary calibre, became so famous that many temples came to be dedicated to him and one of his descendants donated for one such in his very birth place, Mullandiram. From all these it is proved and held that Arunagiri belonged to a Brahmin family of Mullandiram near Tiruvannamalai. One objection to this view is: though Arunagiri is referred to as Dindima Kavi, etc. in the Sanskrit work of his son (to which facts there are corresponding internal evidences in the works of Arunagiri), Arunagiri's greatness was not so much due to these factors but was due to his extraordinary devotion to Lord Murugan and his innumerable compositions of Tiruppugazh songs, to which there is no mention in the Sanskrit work. This objection does not seem to be a serious one because when a person is referred to, all aspects of his life need not necessarily be mentioned. So long as the facts mentioned about Arunagiri in the Sanskrit works do not contradict any of the facts available about him, it can be safely taken as authentic, for no description of a person can be complete. That he was an expert in composing as a Chitra Kavi, that he was a Dindima Kavi and that he was revered and worshipped by the three kings, -- all which are fully relevant to Arunagiri, -- are facts which can be substantiated from his Tiruppugazh and other works. Again, if all these do not refer to our Arunagiri, who is he that is referred to by these? There seems to be no one else of that period to whom all these can be attributed. To simply say that these do not refer to our Arunagiri would be a meaningless objection unless the existence of another person to whom these refer can be proved. It cannot be that someone else was, who was such a great poet as to be called as Dindima Kavi, expert in composing poems as a Chitra Kavi and worshipped by the great Tamil kings and yet whose name or life-history or any of his works is not available on record. If these were really to refer to such a great person other than Arunagiri, something about him or at least some of his works must be available for reference, somewhere. Hence, in the absence of any such thing as this, these details may be taken, in all probability, to refer to Arunagiri, the author of Tiruppugazh and other works, and it can be safely regarded as such. THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE ACCOUNT This is based on Rao Bahadur V.S. Chengalvaraya Pillai's Tamil work "Arunagirinathar: Varalaarum Noolaaraichiyum" --- "Arunagirinathar: Life and research on his works", published in the year 1947. Our revered and scholarly Pillai Avl. has done a tremendous work, a novel and original thought of his, in codifying the "Murugavel Panniru Tirumurai" (Complete works of Saint Arunagirinathar) corresponding to the 'Saiva Panniru Tirumurai', for which we are indebted to him. According to his research based on internal evidences of the Tiruppugazh and other works of Arunagiri, the life of the Saint, in his above work, is somewhat like this: | ||
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