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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| Now, let us imagine for a moment that the parrot episode is true. What would be its consequence? It would mean that finally Sambanthandan succeeded in eliminating Arunagiri by his evil design, which will not be so much of a defeat for Arunagiri but of the Lord Himself. The Lord, who saved Arunagiri from Sambanthandan's earlier evil intention by appearing in that huge assembly, could not now save His devotee but allowed him to be defeated and cremated. Would it not mean that the untruthful Sanbanthandan has succeeded and the Lord or Truth has failed! But the Vedas declare 'Satyameva Jayate, naanritam' -- 'Truth alone triumphs, not untruth.' And in the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna says, 'Na me bhaktah pranashyati' -- 'My devotee perishes not.' Let the true devotees of Lord Murugan touch their hearts and feel whether the parrot episode could be true! Of course, we have seen that the episode is untenable for various reasons!! Now, when different devotees have said different things about the parrot-story, let me also say something of my own! If it were really true that Arunagiri went to Devaloka as a parrot, brought the Parijata flowers and restored eye-sight to the king, he would/could as well have also cured thousands of blind people. Because, is he not 'Karunaikku Arunagiri', -- 'Arunagiri, an embodiment of compassion'? Why should he do it only for the king? He is a saint, interested in the welfare of all. He has opened the spiritual or wisdom eyes of the masses with his Tiruppugazh and other works. So it would be most appropriate that he opened an 'Arunagiri Netralayam', help blind people gain eye sight so that they could study his works and realise God. Also, the saints/Yogis of the last over 500 years (since Arunagiri's time) could have brought the flower and help remove the blindness of millions who are suffering! It would be real service to God. "Maanava seva Maadhava seva" -- "Service of mankind is service of God." And, if they are interested, they can mint money even by charging a very small amount! But, all this with an 'IF', and the 'IF' is a very, very big IF; impossible and impracticable, except for the imaginations of those authors! In order to obviate the problem of the king alone losing eye-sight in that large assembly and the impossibility of fetching the Paarijata from heaven, some of the recent authors have found a new legend. According to it the king was suffering from a chronic eye problem (not blindness). Sambanthandan told the king that if the juice of the Paarijaata flowers, which is available in the upper reaches of the Himalayas unapproachable to humans, were to be applied, the eye disease would be cured. (The regions in the Himalayas unapproachable to the humans are only the eternal snow peaks where no plants can grow!) The rest of the story is more or less the same. In a way this story makes it easy for opening 'Arunagiri Netralayam' for eye problems, as it is easier to get the flower from the Himalayas than from heaven, if only the plant grows in the snow peaks! (My sincere suggestion: Pharmaceutical Companies would do well to undertake research and experiments on the Paarijaata plant, -- its root, bark, | ||
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