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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| sing them and in a mysterious manner the Lord saves them. (3) Then there are some in which Arunagiri gives his miserable experiences and also the Lord's grace that saved him. Those songs are for those who have come out of the courtesans' clutches, as thanks-giving and also as a safeguard against falling back into it. Thus, Arunagiri's Thiruppugazhs acted as an unfailing remedy for the then prevailing malady of debauchery, and helped the masses in every situation. So they all sang them with great devotion and admiration. Because of their miraculous power to transform the minds of people, the songs spread like wild fire and people in all the four directions began to sing them even in his life time, as Arunagiri says in T-384 (Patthar ganapriya). They derived immense benefit from them which slowly weaned them from the prostitutes and gradually freed them from their clutches. But then why did they disappear afterwards, and hardly 10% of the 16000 songs only are available now? It is a mystery! However, the reason is not far to seek. Because, even among the available 1300 and odd songs only about 500 are suitable for singing in public! From this we can easily imagine that the rest of the songs should have been awfully descriptive of the courtesans and carnal acts such that anyone would shy away from singing them in Bhajan-Mandalies, in the midst of mixed devotees of both the sexes. Even though they are descriptions of the prostitute women, they certainly offend the sentiments and honour of household ladies. Thus people slowly dropped singing such songs and eventually they went out of circulation or use and disappeared, maybe within a century or so after Arunagiri. However, by that time prostitution should have been contained within reasonable limits, and those songs have served the purpose for which they were intended, and they were no more needed. We may not be wrong if we presume so because it is mostly those Thiruppugazh songs only that seem to have disappeared and not the entire lot of Tiruppugazhs or the other works of Arunagiri or the works of other saints of even much earlier times, like Thevaaram, Thiruvaachagam, Thirukkural, Thiru Murugaatruppadai, etc. It is also quite possible that the courtesans had a hand in it, because it affected their 'business'. They and their paramours (or agents) might have destroyed whatever Tiruppugazhs they could lay their hands on, in which process it is also likely that some of the 'good' ones might have been lost! However, even these 1300 and odd songs available now are more than enough; they are a treasure house. They are safe and will not be lost, thanks to the dedicated efforts of Sri Pillai and his revered father who collected them with great effort and got them printed and published. Had the printing facility been available in Arunagiri's time, though unfortunately not, we would be having all his 16000 songs! But it must have been the Will of God that they should disappear!! Even as Sri Pillai has got printed all the available Tiruppugazhs with meaning in Tamil, similarly revered Sri N. Gopala Sundaram Avl has done an inestimable service by publishing all the Tiruppugazhs in Tamil, with meaning in Tamil, and also with transliteration and meaning in English, so that non-Tamil-knowing devotees (including those who can only speak/understand Tamil but not read or write) can also sing and understand them. (This is available in the website www.kaumaram.com). | ||
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