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 | |
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| subside. He somehow wanted to do away with Arunagiri and so, after sometime, he approached the king again. (Note: As per the terms of the contest he is not supposed to step into the country again.) Knowing that the king who had lost his eyesight would be eager to get it back somehow, Sambanthandan said to the king: "O mighty king! There is only one way of getting back your eyesight. If the heavenly Paarijata-flowers are brought and placed over your eyes, they will regain vision. Please, therefore, request Arunagiri to fetch the flowers and in case he declines to do so, I shall at once bring them for you." The king, not knowing Sambanthandan's evil intentions but desirous of regaining his vision, requested Arunagiri accordingly, and the saint readily agreed. Arunagiri climbed the Temple-Gopuram (Tower), left his physical body there, entered the body of a parrot that was just dead then, and flew to the heavenly region. Sambanthandan took this opportunity and informed the king that Arunagiri is dead, that his body lies in the Arunachala-Gopuram and that it should be burnt soon. The king, too, without due investigation or thought ordered it to be cremated, which the evil-minded got done without the least delay, lest Arunagiri should come back to life. When the Arunagiri-parrot returned from heaven with the Paarijata-flowers, he found his body missing from the Gopuram. Taking it to be the Will of God, the parrot went to the king, offered the flowers to him and, to his great joy, restored his eye-sight. The king felt extremely sorry for his hasty and ill-considered action in getting Arunagiri's body burnt, wept bitterly and begged his pardon. Here comes the interesting and intriguing matter. Was there a real necessity for Arunagiri to go to heaven to fetch the Parijata flower to restore the king's eye- sight? Or was it a mere story created with some ulterior motive? Certainly there was no necessity, because: 1. We have seen that the king did not lose his sight during the 'Event'. So there was no question of restoring his sight and all the rest of the story. 2. Even supposing that he had lost sight, it was not that it can be restored only by the heavenly Parijata flower. Arunagiri had all the Siddhis or supernatural powers bestowed upon him by the Lord on Day One. He had the power to restore sight by a mere touch, or by applying Vibhuti (the holy ash) uttering the Lord's Name, which according to some, he did. 3. Even supposing that the sight can be restored only by the Parijata flower, it was not necessary that he should go personally, because he could bring them by his Siddhis, or by a prayer to the Lord who would have poured the flowers. To one who could manifest the Lord Himself in an open assembly by a mere prayer, to materialise a few Paarijata-flowers by his supernatural powers or by another prayer to the Lord should have been no difficult job. 4. Even supposing Arunagiri himself had to go to bring the flowers, there was no need for him to go as a parrot. For this, some say that he went as a parrot, | ||
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