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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| Sedanarada' song, the Lord did not appear. He, therefore, sensed some mischief somewhere and through his Yogic vision found out that the Devi was holding Murugan as a small baby on Her lap and entertaining Him with Her conversations, thus preventing His appearance in the assembly. Arunagiri, it is said, sang the Devendra Sanga Vaguppu and then the Mayil Viruttham to which latter's tune a peacock danced before the Kali, and She, being enamoured of the melody of the music and the dance of the peacock, unconsciously loosened Her hold on Murugan when He jumped over to the peacock, hastened to the assembly and gave Darshana. (This view is untenable, as we have seen that the Lord appeared in no time.) The Lord cannot be bound or held in check by anything except the true love of His devotee, which can attract the Lord from any realm and manifest Him in no time on the physical plane. Moreover, to Arunagiri Lord Murugan was not merely the personal God or Ishta Devata (cult-God), He was also the Supreme Being. This is evident even from the above Tiruppugazh. Though the Lord is addressed as the son-in-law of Lord Vishnu, etc., which all point to the theological aspects of Him, He is asked to come dancing in such a way that when He dances, everything, everywhere, dances, including Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, and Kali dances with Lord Siva, the Bull-Rider; etc., which reveal that He is the Supreme Reality that is behind and beyond even the Trinity. This is amply made clear in another poem also (T-433, 'Agaramumaagi' sung at Pazhamuthirsolai): "O Lord who is (the beginning of all things) like the Akara or the letter 'A' which stands first in the alphabets, who is the Lord of all things, who is beyond everything, who is the essence of all things, who is Brahma, who is Vishnu, who is Siva, who is beyond this Trinity; who is all things here, who is whatever thing anywhere is, and who comes as the sweetness (of all things)." Again in the last verse of his treatise on God-Realisation, the 'Kandar Anubhuti', Arunagiri gives the experience of a Jivanmukta who is established in Sahaja-Samadhi Avastha or perpetual God-consciousness --- for a Jivanmukta everything is God. He says: "O Almighty Lord Guha! O Supreme Being, Who comes (as all these which are) with form and without form, as what is and what is not, as flower and (its) fragrance, as gem and (its) radiance, as body (universe) and soul (universal spirit) (that pervades and animates it), as the rules of righteousness and Moksha (that is attained through them) (i.e., as the means and as the End), and as the Guru! Bestow Thy Grace (on all)." எல்லாமாயும் குருவாயும் வருகின்ற குஹப்பெருமானே, நீ எல்லோருக்கும் அருள் புரிவாயாக. Here we can have a little diversion. Sometimes a doubt arises as to which cult did Arunagiri belong? Was he a Kaumara, or a Sakta or a Shaiva or what? Arunagiri was a Saint of the highest Advaitic Realisation and all such saints belong to a class of their own, they belong to GOD (இறையோன் பரிவாரம்) and not to any particular cult, i.e., they are neither Kaumaras, nor Saktas, nor anything else, though from our limited point-of-view we may dub them as this or that. In respect of all saints we say: "The bliss they enjoyed they want all of us to enjoy." --- யாம் பெற்ற இன்பம் வையகம் பெற. The Advaita-Acharya Sankara, who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord Siva, instituted the Shan-Mata or the six cults as six ways of approach to and realisation of the same Goal, -- God, Supreme Being, Brahman or the Absolute. This he did as the taste, temperament and | ||
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