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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| "Learned men will say: 'The body is perishable, wealth is transitory.' But if one approaches them for charity, they will quietly slip away. These are the people who have no devotion to Vel-Murugan. Wonderful is their wisdom!" "O Yogis! There is no use of torturing the body through Hatha Yoga. Knowing what Siva-Yoga is through the Upadesa of Murugan, if you become 'silent', you will attain Mukti." "O Yogis who do hard Yoga-practices! If you meditate on the Lotus-Feet of the Beloved of Valli Devi (Lord Murugan), you shall easily attain Mukti." (3) Tiru Vaguppu: This is a work with 25 sections, each one specially devoted to portray the greatness of the different aspects of or matters connected with Lord Murugan, --- His Feet, His Devotees' Group, His principal weapon Vel, His consort Valli, His twelve divine hands, His eye's grace-glance, Arunagiri's Tiruppugazh, etc. Unlike the other works, since each section deals with a particular subject, it is called 'Tiru-Vaguppu'. Vaguppu means section or a group of verses and Tiru means Divine or pertaining to the Divine. It is held by some that the first 18 sections are only Arunagiri's and that the remaining sections are later interpolations. (4) Kandar Anthaathi: This is a work of 100 verses. Each verse is of four lines and mostly all the lines of every verse begin with the same words with, of course, different meanings. Antha means end and Aathi means beginning, and Anthaathi is a particular type of work wherein the last word or phrase of the previous verse forms the beginning of the next verse, --- the Antha or end of a verse is the Aathi or beginning of the following verse. It is believed that this work was the outcome of the literary contest between the learned but arrogant Villiputturar and the devout and divine-inspired Arunagiri. The condition was, it is said, that Arunagiri should compose Anthaathi songs without interruption and Villiputturar should at once give their meaning, and he who failed to do so would have to accept defeat. As it was composed mainly for the purpose of a literary competition, the language and style are so hard as to baffle even learned scholars, and one can imagine their toughness from the fact that Villiputturar who had won over all the Tamil poets and Pundits of his time failed even to decipher the 54th song whose four lines comprising 97 letters are composed of letters of only the Tha-Varga, i.e., Tha, Thaa, Thi, Thii, Thu, Thuu, etc. Only Arunagiri could give its meaning and even to this date no one attempts to comment on it, except to reproduce Arunagiri's word-to-word meaning. (5) Kandar Anubhuti: It is a work of 51 verses. It is held in high esteem as a Mantra-Sastra and as the crowning glory of Arunagiri's works, because of its high spiritual value and depth. The verses are short, rather the smallest of all the works of Arunagiri, but they are the most sublime. As the title suggests, it is a work on (the attainment of) God-Experience. It is a philosophical treatise on | ||
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