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4546

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 23, 2017, 09:37:00 AM »

Verse  6:


மைப்புரை கண்ணுமை பங்கன் வண்டழல்
ஒப்புரை மேனியெம் முடைய வன்னகர்
அப்பொடு மலர்கொடங் கிறைஞ்சி வானவர்
மெய்ப்பட வருள்புரி விசய மங்கையே.


Vicayamaṅkai where god Siva grants his grace to the celestial beings who worship him with water to bathe, and flowers and are in sincere meditation. One who has Uma having eyes as beautiful as blue Nelumbo flowers, on one half is the place of our master who has a form as red as burning fire.

Arunachala Siva.

4547

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 23, 2017, 09:33:46 AM »

Verse  5:

தோடமர் காதினன் துதைந்த நீற்றினன்
ஏடமர் கோதையோ டினித மர்விடம்
காடமர் மாகரி கதறப் போர்த்ததோர்
வேடம துடையணல் விசய மங்கையே.


Vicayamaṅkai belonging to Siva who has a body covered with the skin he flayed from the big elephant of the forest to make it roar out of pain, who has a ear in which woman's ear-ring is worn, besmeared thickly with holy ash is the place where he stays with pleasure along with a lady who is as graceful as a garland which has flowers of petals.

Arunachala Siva.

4548

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 23, 2017, 09:29:49 AM »

Verse  4:


தொடைமலி யிதழியுந் துன்னெ ருக்கொடு
புடைமலி சடைமுடி யடிகள் பொன்னகர்
படைமலி மழுவினர் பைங்கண் மூரிவெள்
விடைமலி கொடியணல் விசய மங்கையே.

Siva who has a strong weapon of a battle-axe, Vicayamaṅkai of the chief who has on his banner a white, strong and proud bull of greenish eyes, is the beautiful temple of the god who has on his matted locks coiled into a crown, a garland of profuse Koṉṟai flowers and dense Yarcum flowers, on one side.

Arunachala Siva.

4549

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 23, 2017, 09:25:18 AM »

Verse  3:


அக்கர வரையினர் அரிவை பாகமாத்
தொக்கநல் விடையுடைச் சோதி தொன்னகர்
தக்கநல் வானவர் தலைவர் நாள்தொறும்
மிக்கவர் தொழுதெழு விசய மங்கையே.


Vicaymankai which the good and worthy celestial beings, Indra, Brahma and Vishnu who are the chiefs, and devotees who are superior to them, worship and rise from sleep. Siva who wears Chank beads and cobra in the waist, the lady being on one half.
is the ancient temple of the effulgent light who has a bull of good and accumulated strength.

Arunachala Siva.

4550

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 23, 2017, 09:21:31 AM »

Verse  2:

கீதமுன் னிசைதரக் கிளரும் வீணையர்
பூதமுன் னியல்புடைப் புனிதர் பொன்னகர்
கோதனம் வழிபடக் குலவு நான்மறை
வேதியர் தொழுதெழு விசய மங்கையே.


Vicayamaṅkai which the Brahmins who have learnt the four Vēdas worship and rise from sleep, and which is famous as the bull Iṭapatāvar worshipped Siva here. Siva
has a veena to play songs on it, is the beautiful temple of the spotless god on whose sides the Bhutas surrounded him.

Arunachala Siva.

4551

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 23, 2017, 09:17:40 AM »

Tiru Vijaya Mangai:

Verse 1:

மருவமர் குழலுமை பங்கர் வார்சடை
அரவமர் கொள்கையெம் அடிகள் கோயிலாம்
குரவமர் சுரபுன்னை கோங்கு வேங்கைகள்
விரவிய பொழிலணி விசய மங்கையே.

Vicayamaṅkai which is beautified by gardens having bottle-flower trees, long-leaved two-sepaled Gamboge, common Caung and east Indian Kino trees which are mixed.
Siva who has Uma who tucks in her tresses of hair southern wood is the temple of our god who likes to keep a cobra on his long matted locks.

Arunachala Siva.

4552

The teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi / Re: Ozhivil Odukkam - A third serial post. - 2015 onwards.

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:52:49 PM »

Verse  176:

The life of the family is a boat laden with misery, which as its reward transports its occupants, who are blinded by the defect of the ego, to the seven hells. Will the wise not tremble with fear at the sight of it?  When the one source of the five senses performs the six kinds of labor, reality itself is transformed into unreality.

Through attachment to wife and family not only will all kinds of mental and physical   
sufferings be incurred, but also, through the actions performed with attachment in that birth, a never ending cycle of births will follow, leading the householder into the seven hells.  Ironically the Kalam - ship to which he entrusted his salvation will be undoing.

In order to maintain his household, the house holder will need to exert himself from in some form of work, an endeavor which will keep him from the practice of Siva Yoga, which alone can lead him to the Real.  The six forms of labor appropriate to the land of India are given as Uzhavu - agriculture, Tozhil - manufacture, Vanigam - trade, Varaivu - marriage, Vicchai, Vittai -arts and sciences, literature, and sciences, literature, and Chirpam, sculpture, architecture.

Verse 177:

Will the wise find family life acceptable?  To them it will be like a bear coupling with its mate on a great heap of dirt, surrounded by a tribe of quarrelsome monkeys.  Like
the Lord of death (trapping him in a noose, like fire (surrounding him on all sides),
like the ocean (to shipwrecked sailor) or like a great mountain (heaped on his shoulders), it will consign him to the hell of future births.

TCS says that Kalan - Lord of Death is like the family because just as Death snare his victims with his Pasam - rope or noose, the family of a would - be renunciant will follow him, grabbing onto his hands and feet and weeping and wailing until he gives in and returns to them. 

contd.,

Arunachala Siva.

4553

The teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi / Re: Ozhivil Odukkam - A third serial post. - 2015 onwards.

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:30:57 PM »

Verse  175:

To enjoy the body of a woman is akin to a dog greedily licking ghee smeared on a sharp blade, or someone drinking sweet Payasam mixed with poison.  It is like trying to quench a thirst with water of an entirely unreal mirage. Who would not renounce the world, having seen the evidence provided by the Asuna  bird, elephant, moth, fish and flying insect, (each being lured to death by one or other senses)?

The author gives five examples of creatures, each of which is undone by one of the five senses: the Asunam bird by sound, the elephant by touch, being lured into the hunters' pit by desire for union with a female elephant which has been set up as a lure; the moth by sight, being lured into a flame by its bright form; the fish by taste,
being unable to resist the bait on the fisherman's hook, and the flying insect by smell,
being eaten by a predator after alighting on a flower, attracted by its scent.

contd.,

Arunachala Siva.     
 
           

4554

The teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi / Re: Ozhivil Odukkam - A third serial post. - 2015 onwards.

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:22:09 PM »

Verse  174:

Can there be any attachment to house and home if one remains at rest with no thoughts
whatsoever arising, free of attachment to the body and all the rest (sensory pleasures, the external world, and the physical, sensory and mental faculties?  (This state is (one of stillness), like an iron needle placed inside a magnetized pot, or a lighted lamp in a windless place.  All the tattvas will be alien to such a one.

According to the commentary what is meant by 'all the rest' are, in addition to the body itself, Bhogam - enjoyment, pleasure, Bhuvanam - the world and Karanam - the organs of sense and action and the mental faculties, which are all to be rejected as Nan andru - It is not 'I'.

In the magnetic pot, metaphor, a needle made out of a magnetic metal such as iron or steel is clearly meant.  It is not clear what is meant by a magnetized or magnetic pot.
However the main idea is clear: a metal needle on the outside of such a pot would be attracted towards it just as consciousness, when it is outward turned, is drawn to the world of the mind and senses.  Placed inside such a pot, however, it would not be subject to attraction by any outer object at all, just as the inward turned consciousness is not attracted by the objects of sense.

Once the impure tattvas, the organs of sense and action, the mental faculties etc., cease to function, their cause, the pure-impure tattvas will cease to operate, along with their own cause, the pure tattvas.

contd.,

Arunachala Siva.
                       

4555

General Discussion / Re: Rough Notebook-Open Forum

« on: April 22, 2017, 12:59:25 PM »

Today is the Liberation Day of Saint Tiru Navukkarasar.

Chitra month, Sadhaya star day.

I have given the detailed life story of the saint in the serial post on Saiva Saints.
Please go through the same.

Arunachala Siva.

4556

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 22, 2017, 09:42:24 AM »

Verse  11:


நற்றவர் காழியுண் ஞானசம் பந்தன்
குற்றமில் பெரும்புகழ்க் கொள்ளிக் காடரைச்
சொற்றமி ழின்னிசை மாலை சோர்வின்றிக்
கற்றவர் கழலடி காண வல்லரே.


On Siva in Koḷḷikkādu who has great and faultless fame, those who have learnt without forgetfulness the garland of Tamizh verses of sweet music composed by Jnana Sambandhan in Sirkazhi, where people who want to get rid of the cycle of birth and death and attain salvation, live are capable of obtaining vision of the feet of Siva which wear Kazhal.

Padigam on Tiruk Kollikadu completed.

Arunachala Siva.

4557

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 22, 2017, 09:39:01 AM »

Verse  10:

நாடிநின் றறிவில்நா ணிலிகள் சாக்கியர்
ஓடிமுன் னோதிய வுரைகள் மெய்யல
பாடுவர் நான்மறை பயின்ற மாதொடும்
கூடுவர் திருவுருக் கொள்ளிக் காடரே.

The words of the shameless Jains who had no intelligence and the Buddhists who ran and preached in former times do not contain any truth. By chanting musically the four Vedas, he is united in his holy body with a lady with whom he is intimate.

Arunachala Siva.

4558

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 22, 2017, 09:35:12 AM »

Verse  9:

தேடினா ரயன்முடி மாலுஞ் சேவடி
நாடினா ரவரென்று நணுக கிற்றிலர்
பாடினார் பரிவொடு பத்தர் சித்தமும்
கூடினார்க் கருள் செய்வர் கொள்ளிக் காடரே.


Brahma searched for the head; and the great Vishnu searched for the lotus-red feet: they had not the capability and could never come anywhere near them. He will grant his grace to those devotees who sang his praises with love and who had concentrated minds, being very near them.

Arunachala Siva.

4559

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 22, 2017, 09:31:28 AM »

Verse  8:

எடுத்தனன் கயிலையை யியல்வ லியினால்
அடர்த்தனர் திருவிர லால்அ லறிடப்
படுத்தன ரென்றவன் பாடல் பாடலும்
கொடுத்தனர் கொற்றவாள் கொள்ளிக் காடரே.

When Ravana lifted the mountain, Kailash by his natural strength, Siva pressed him down by his holy toe to make him roar. When he sang songs thinking 'Siva destroyed me' he granted Ravana, a sword that brings victory.

Arunachala Siva.

4560

General topics / Re: Saiva Canon 1 - Tiru Jnana Sambandhar.

« on: April 22, 2017, 09:27:53 AM »

Verse  7:

இறையுறு வரிவளை யிசைகள் பாடிட
அறையுறு கழலடி ஆர்க்க ஆடுவர்
சிறையுறு விரிபுனல் சென்னி யின்மிசைக்
குறையுறு மதியினர் கொள்ளிக் காடரே.


As the lady who wears on the wrist bangles with lines sings, He will dance to make the anklets worn on the leg which can produce sound make a big sound. He wears a crescent moon on the head where the spreading water has been restrained.

Arunachala Siva.