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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| and no reference to fear of death except in a few verses. Can we, therefore, say that the Kandar Anthaathi was also given after Arunagiri became a parrot! Kandar Anthaathi is the outcome of a literary contest with Villiputturaar, while the Tiru Vaguppus are an outcome of Arunagiri's Tapas or penance at Tirutthani, (which we will see later, page lxii) -- both have nothing to do with parrot. According to some, after restoring sight to the king the Arunagiri-parrot was leaving for Skanda-Loka, when Lord Murugan in the Tiruvannamalai temple called and asked him to stay on His arms and the parrot is there since then. According to the Traditional account of Sri Thandapani Swamigal, from Tiruvannamalai the Arunagiri-parrot flew away to Kanda-maadana Parvata (the Abode of Lord Skanda, close to Kailasa Parvata, the Abode of Lord Siva) and Lord Skanda received it and made him rest on His right shoulder. All the other authors who believe in the parrot story (except Sri Pillai) say that the 'Kandar Anubhuti' was given by Arunagiri as a parrot. According to some, after restoring eye sight to the king, the parrot perched on a peepul tree near Thiruvannamalai, wrote each verse of the 'Kandar Anubhuti' on one leaf with its beak and dropped it. The collection of these scattered leaves is the 'Kandar Anubhuti'. Hence there is no logical sequence in the verses of the work and it even needs re-arrangement! (If the parrot could write the verse, the numbers of the verses were also written by it!!) Others, who are totally devoted to Lord Murugan of Tirutthani, hold that the parrot flew away from Thiruvannamalai to Tirutthani and perched on the arm of that Lord there and gave the 'Kandar Anubhuti'. Again, those who are devotees of the Murugan at Tiruchchengodu feel the parrot is perching on the arm of that Lord there. In how many places can one parrot be? There seems to be no end to the variations of the parrot-myth. But the fact is that Arunagiri never became a parrot, and when he shed his body, the Lord had granted him Sayujya Mukti as prayed for by him, and he had attained Oneness with the Lord more than 500 years ago, -- long, long before these stories (the Traditional and other hearsay ones) were invented by devotees who came later and make him languish as a parrot at different places! What a pity!! Glory to Lord Skanda! Glory to Saint Arunagirinathar!! Glory to His Devotees!!! Indeed the whole story, with all its variations, is a conjured up one, as there is a Samadhi-Shrine/Altar dedicated to Arunagirinathar (with an image of his carved in stone) in the western part of the Arunachaleshwarar's temple in Tiruvannamalai, where his body was interred when he shed it and attained Liberation. It is most surprising and totally un-understandable that the authors who have written on the life of the Saint never make a reference to this Samadhi. They conveniently avoid this vital matter. Why? Perhaps it is uncomfortable to them, as it goes against their parrot-story. This is a fairly big structure near the | ||
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