SRI PAAVAADAIRAAYAN
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR
Sri Paavaadairaayan sametha Sri Ankaala Parameswari
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR
Sri Paavaadairaayan sametha Sri Ankaala Parameswari
ESCHATOLOGY is that branch of theology which deals with the ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity and even of the gods. There are several eschatological doctrines associated with every religion, say, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and others. Eschatology is also a discipline of Philosophy. Saint Augustine was one of the most famous eschatological thinkers as Hegel. Albert Schweitzer’s “The Quest of the Historical Jesus” was written as an eschatological study about Jesus Christ. “Sri Arunachala Puranam” in its core stands as one of the finest eschatological anthologies. This is the sequel to my earlier paper entitled, “Sri Arunachala Puranam Revisited”.
Upon seeing Sri Brahma descending with the ‘Thaazhampoo’ (தாழம்பூ) in hand as a proof of his conquest of having seen the head of Sri Lingodhbhavamoorthi, the temporary feeling of greatness rekindled by Sri Vishnu’s acceptance of his defeat of not being able to see the feet of Sri Siva caused an excruciating revelation about the Truth to the moderator Siva who had been sought earlier to decide upon the greater among Brahma and Vishnu and thus to put an end to their supernovaic combat, instead of adjudging smartly, Siva thought himself to be the greatest and diverted the combatants Brahma to look for his top, Vishnu to find his base and having said thus extended himself into an ever expanding beam of light as Lingodhbhavamoorthi and now in order to sustain his transient supremacy, plucked the Fifth Head of Sri Pancha Mukha Brahma with his limb-like steward, the Siva Ghanam Kaalabhairava! He was the first prey that the Brahma Kabhaalam consumed resulting the Time that he represented to freeze!
As soon as the Fifth Head of Brahma was removed, the cranium fell on Siva’s hands which he could not discard just because it stuck itself firmly on the hands which looked as if those hands together constituted a seat upon which the skull had accommodated itself in the inverted position. Thus, Siva was subjected to the Brahmahatthi Dhosha for his crude act of beheading Brahma. With that head in palms as a Biksha Paathram, i.e. begging device, he went on begging hither and thither and collected everything that was amass on his way, comparable to that of a dead star after supernova absorbing all in its field in order to regain strength leading to its rebirth!
All things that fell into the skull were consumed by it causing Siva’s increasing hunger that tamed gradually his anger in turn and which if not, might have led to perilous consequences. Siva lost the power of vision and wandered everywhere in the cosmos which appeared like a lifeless necropolis. All his attempts to collect the stellar debris into his bowl to quench his starved bowels resulted in the digestion of them by the Fifth Head of Brahma!
The eternal relationship between Brahma and Saraswathi is that Brahma creates everything, himself being created by Para Brahmi and herself being created by Para Para Brahma in turn, Para Para Brahma being created by Para Para Para Brahmi, … ad infinitum. By this reasoning, Brahma and Saraswathi are siblings. Brahma is Saraswatha and Saraswathi is Brahmi. Again, they create each other that one is the Parent of the other. And also they are the Divine Couple! Brahma and Brahmi together constitute the Primordial Brahmmam. There are various ways of creating species. Brahmmam by fission creates Brahma and Brahmi and the latter by fusion create the Universe that is again the Brahmmam. This is the fundamental phenomenon which inspires ubiquitously the interaction between mind and matter.
Siva is the male form of Saraswathi with the meaning that if Siva is +0, then Saraswathi is –0. Vishnu is the male form of Sakthi with the meaning that if Vishnu is +N (N=Numbers), then Sakthi is –N. Likewise, Brahma is the male form of Lakshmi with the meaning that if Brahma is +∞ (Infinity), then Lakshmi is –∞. In the generalised context when Brahma and Saraswathi are considered, their Absolute Values are taken into account, viz., ∞ to represent Brahma and 0 to represent Saraswathi. Their Mathematical Product, ∞ * 0, generates all the Numbers. Numbers are the building blocks of the Universe, be it the Abstract or the Physical. The mutual engulfing of ∞ and 0 is the Vedic Duty imposed on Brahma and Saraswathi by the Brahmmam and this is the Supreme Philosophy of the Brahma-Anantha-Aanandham which is translated as Perfect-Infinite-Bliss and pronounced together as Brahmaananthaanandham!
Why should the Brahmmam being perfect by itself split and reunite for a countless number of times? By splitting, it expands and by reuniting, the Brahmmam shrinks. These two courses of the Brahmmam are the Breath of it and it exhales innumerable universes and inhales them in turn which can be comprehended as the mutual chasing of Brahma, the Infinity, and Siva, the Zero, in the Cosmic Medium, Vishnu! If there are any disturbances to this steady routine of the Trinity, Vishnu incarnates with his Avathaaraas, Siva manifests as his Amsaas and Brahma advents in his Swaroopaas to straighten the matters! There are Temples dedicated to Sri Vishnu along with his Avathaaraas and similarly for Sri Siva along with his Amsaas but the reason for the absence of any such Temples dedicated to Sri Brahma is that being the God of Creation, Brahma resides along with Brahmi as Brahmmam in the Body Temple of all Living Beings emanating the Truth of the slogan ‘Aham Brahmmaasmi’ which means the Self that is enshrined in the Body is the Brahmmam!
Perfection is achieved by the ceaseless action of refinement. In order to be perfect, anything has to stay refined forever. By the refinement process, dust is accumulated surrounding the perfected densely. The thrust of the increasing dust upon the perfected might result in the shifting of their dominions that the entire dust gets cataclysmically transformed into perfect at the expense of the previously perfected entity and the refinement process recommences its schedule afresh with the transposed imperfect entity and thus extends the eternal reverberations of the Brahmmam!
At the end Siva went to his female form, Goddess Saraswathi who is in all respects the corresponding complement of Brahma, and asked for alms. The difference between Siva and Brahma is that in Infinity which is Brahma, there is Siva and in Zero which is Siva, there is not Brahma which is rephrased symbolically as ∞ + 0 = ∞ & ∞ + 0 ≠ 0. The relationship between Siva and Saraswathi is that they are the male and female forms of Zero respectively. In this way they are regarded as siblings. But in the case of Brahma, Brahmmam took the forms of Brahma and Brahmi with the former being the Perfect Entity and the latter accompanying it as the Void Entity. By shifting their vistas, Brahma and Brahmi can transform interchangeably into anything in order to establish and enliven the Principles of the Brahmmam.
Upon observing her sibling Siva, Goddess Saraswathi poured her Divine Ambrosia into the Brahma Kabhaalam. Siva after having felt the heaviness of the bowl took it near his mouth to suck the contents. The Brahma Kabhaalam absorbed Siva into it and with Siva’s oomph, recreated the ruins that it had digested earlier animating in each entity, minuscules of Siva and like the Big Bang, it ejected simultaneously the entire Universe of life retaining a major portion of Siva within itself to be called as Sri Lingajeeranamoorthi, meaning the God who digested Siva, the Lingam!
Saraswathi, who had been witnessing all these held the Four Headed Brahma as a Tetradent called Soolam, within her grips and positioned it appropriately at the time when Siva got sucked into the Kabhaalam and the Universe was ejected along with Time so that the Fifth Head of Brahma could safely land over the cavity at the centre of the other Four Heads thus permanently arresting Siva within the regime of the Pancha Mukha Brahma and in glory of this feet of restoring her Beloved Spouse with his Pivotal Head, Goddess Saraswathi acquired the name Sri Ankaala Parameswari, meaning the Goddess who rules the Limbs!
Soolam means the Seat (Am) of the Seeds (Sool) and Sool is the name of the Fifth Head which had just been seated in its original place Am, at the apex of the Four Headed Brahma! The Fifth Head called the Brahma Garbha is the Celestial Womb that contains the Cosmic Seeds. It is also the giver of Moksha, i.e., Liberation.
‘Mayaanakkollai’ that follows the auspicious day of the Night or Darkness of Siva known as ‘Sivaraathri’ is being celebrated annually in remembrance of the restoration of Brahma’s Fifth Head and relieving Siva of his Brahmahatthi Dhosha by restricting him to the control of Brahma as he ever have been. ‘Mayaanakkollai’ means ‘Loot of the Graveyard’. After the clash of Brahma and Vishnu, the world had turned into a graveyard. Looting a bank means after the loot, the bank’s assets will be lost. Likewise, looting the graveyard means, after the Fifth Head of Brahma looted the lifeless heap, the graveyard’s chattels had vanished implying that its lifeless mass had been rejuvenated!
When Brahma graces a place with Five Heads, it is to grant liberation en masse to every species dwelling there. In one of such visits at the advent of Pralayaa, i.e., Total Destruction, he cleaned the Cosmic Slate which is Sri Vishnu using Sri Siva, the Cosmic Eraser. The Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are the vital divinities. Of this trio, Vishnu and Siva are the tools of Brahma to chisel the concepts enumerated in the Vedas. The Vedas are ever expanding and ever contracting only to mean that we take birth to enact our corresponding Vedic themes in the course of expansion and we die in the relay race handing over the spirit of our themes to our successors in the course of contraction. Constancy is the simultaneous expansion and contraction so that the Vedas ever remain intact pulsating with the Truth of the Brahmaananthaanandham!
After the Fifth Head had been reinstalled, Brahma resumed his eternal craft of creation along with the Music of his adored consort Sri Saraswathi. Brahma’s primitive Swaroopaas are with each of his five heads individually, with two, three, four and five heads and also with infinities of other possibilities of multiple heads. Human Body is the temple of Brahmmam and it is based on one of the primeval Swaroopaas of Brahma and Brahmi. There is a one to one correspondence between the Head and Body of the Humans by way of external representation of the parts along with the respective internal similarities. They together appear as two conjoined Heads or Bodies. In short, the Head is the replica of the Body and hence the Universe in microcosm. The Head interacts with the Body as they together as an individual interact with another who is the counterpart thus mimicking the primal course of the Brahmmam!
Sri Paavaadairaayan is the Swaroopaa of Sri Brahma with his Fifth Head alone. He came to cleanse the sin of Siva, to purify him from the Brahmahatthi Dhosha and hence justify the meaning of his name Sri Paavaadairaayan. ‘Paavam’ means sin, ‘Adai’ means to settle, ‘Ra’ means to come and ‘Ayan’ means Brahma. ‘Raayan’ also means Brahma from above clearly pointing to the Crest Head, i.e., the Fifth Head of Brahma.
—S. Maheshkumar.
{Composed on 12th November 2007 at 2 PM from the previous Draft, with subsequent revisions made on 14th & 16th November 2007 at 10.01 AM & 4 PM respectively, Indian Standard Time.}
Upon seeing Sri Brahma descending with the ‘Thaazhampoo’ (தாழம்பூ) in hand as a proof of his conquest of having seen the head of Sri Lingodhbhavamoorthi, the temporary feeling of greatness rekindled by Sri Vishnu’s acceptance of his defeat of not being able to see the feet of Sri Siva caused an excruciating revelation about the Truth to the moderator Siva who had been sought earlier to decide upon the greater among Brahma and Vishnu and thus to put an end to their supernovaic combat, instead of adjudging smartly, Siva thought himself to be the greatest and diverted the combatants Brahma to look for his top, Vishnu to find his base and having said thus extended himself into an ever expanding beam of light as Lingodhbhavamoorthi and now in order to sustain his transient supremacy, plucked the Fifth Head of Sri Pancha Mukha Brahma with his limb-like steward, the Siva Ghanam Kaalabhairava! He was the first prey that the Brahma Kabhaalam consumed resulting the Time that he represented to freeze!
As soon as the Fifth Head of Brahma was removed, the cranium fell on Siva’s hands which he could not discard just because it stuck itself firmly on the hands which looked as if those hands together constituted a seat upon which the skull had accommodated itself in the inverted position. Thus, Siva was subjected to the Brahmahatthi Dhosha for his crude act of beheading Brahma. With that head in palms as a Biksha Paathram, i.e. begging device, he went on begging hither and thither and collected everything that was amass on his way, comparable to that of a dead star after supernova absorbing all in its field in order to regain strength leading to its rebirth!
All things that fell into the skull were consumed by it causing Siva’s increasing hunger that tamed gradually his anger in turn and which if not, might have led to perilous consequences. Siva lost the power of vision and wandered everywhere in the cosmos which appeared like a lifeless necropolis. All his attempts to collect the stellar debris into his bowl to quench his starved bowels resulted in the digestion of them by the Fifth Head of Brahma!
The eternal relationship between Brahma and Saraswathi is that Brahma creates everything, himself being created by Para Brahmi and herself being created by Para Para Brahma in turn, Para Para Brahma being created by Para Para Para Brahmi, … ad infinitum. By this reasoning, Brahma and Saraswathi are siblings. Brahma is Saraswatha and Saraswathi is Brahmi. Again, they create each other that one is the Parent of the other. And also they are the Divine Couple! Brahma and Brahmi together constitute the Primordial Brahmmam. There are various ways of creating species. Brahmmam by fission creates Brahma and Brahmi and the latter by fusion create the Universe that is again the Brahmmam. This is the fundamental phenomenon which inspires ubiquitously the interaction between mind and matter.
Siva is the male form of Saraswathi with the meaning that if Siva is +0, then Saraswathi is –0. Vishnu is the male form of Sakthi with the meaning that if Vishnu is +N (N=Numbers), then Sakthi is –N. Likewise, Brahma is the male form of Lakshmi with the meaning that if Brahma is +∞ (Infinity), then Lakshmi is –∞. In the generalised context when Brahma and Saraswathi are considered, their Absolute Values are taken into account, viz., ∞ to represent Brahma and 0 to represent Saraswathi. Their Mathematical Product, ∞ * 0, generates all the Numbers. Numbers are the building blocks of the Universe, be it the Abstract or the Physical. The mutual engulfing of ∞ and 0 is the Vedic Duty imposed on Brahma and Saraswathi by the Brahmmam and this is the Supreme Philosophy of the Brahma-Anantha-Aanandham which is translated as Perfect-Infinite-Bliss and pronounced together as Brahmaananthaanandham!
Why should the Brahmmam being perfect by itself split and reunite for a countless number of times? By splitting, it expands and by reuniting, the Brahmmam shrinks. These two courses of the Brahmmam are the Breath of it and it exhales innumerable universes and inhales them in turn which can be comprehended as the mutual chasing of Brahma, the Infinity, and Siva, the Zero, in the Cosmic Medium, Vishnu! If there are any disturbances to this steady routine of the Trinity, Vishnu incarnates with his Avathaaraas, Siva manifests as his Amsaas and Brahma advents in his Swaroopaas to straighten the matters! There are Temples dedicated to Sri Vishnu along with his Avathaaraas and similarly for Sri Siva along with his Amsaas but the reason for the absence of any such Temples dedicated to Sri Brahma is that being the God of Creation, Brahma resides along with Brahmi as Brahmmam in the Body Temple of all Living Beings emanating the Truth of the slogan ‘Aham Brahmmaasmi’ which means the Self that is enshrined in the Body is the Brahmmam!
Perfection is achieved by the ceaseless action of refinement. In order to be perfect, anything has to stay refined forever. By the refinement process, dust is accumulated surrounding the perfected densely. The thrust of the increasing dust upon the perfected might result in the shifting of their dominions that the entire dust gets cataclysmically transformed into perfect at the expense of the previously perfected entity and the refinement process recommences its schedule afresh with the transposed imperfect entity and thus extends the eternal reverberations of the Brahmmam!
At the end Siva went to his female form, Goddess Saraswathi who is in all respects the corresponding complement of Brahma, and asked for alms. The difference between Siva and Brahma is that in Infinity which is Brahma, there is Siva and in Zero which is Siva, there is not Brahma which is rephrased symbolically as ∞ + 0 = ∞ & ∞ + 0 ≠ 0. The relationship between Siva and Saraswathi is that they are the male and female forms of Zero respectively. In this way they are regarded as siblings. But in the case of Brahma, Brahmmam took the forms of Brahma and Brahmi with the former being the Perfect Entity and the latter accompanying it as the Void Entity. By shifting their vistas, Brahma and Brahmi can transform interchangeably into anything in order to establish and enliven the Principles of the Brahmmam.
Upon observing her sibling Siva, Goddess Saraswathi poured her Divine Ambrosia into the Brahma Kabhaalam. Siva after having felt the heaviness of the bowl took it near his mouth to suck the contents. The Brahma Kabhaalam absorbed Siva into it and with Siva’s oomph, recreated the ruins that it had digested earlier animating in each entity, minuscules of Siva and like the Big Bang, it ejected simultaneously the entire Universe of life retaining a major portion of Siva within itself to be called as Sri Lingajeeranamoorthi, meaning the God who digested Siva, the Lingam!
Sri Panchamukheeswara Swamy
Saraswathi, who had been witnessing all these held the Four Headed Brahma as a Tetradent called Soolam, within her grips and positioned it appropriately at the time when Siva got sucked into the Kabhaalam and the Universe was ejected along with Time so that the Fifth Head of Brahma could safely land over the cavity at the centre of the other Four Heads thus permanently arresting Siva within the regime of the Pancha Mukha Brahma and in glory of this feet of restoring her Beloved Spouse with his Pivotal Head, Goddess Saraswathi acquired the name Sri Ankaala Parameswari, meaning the Goddess who rules the Limbs!
Soolam means the Seat (Am) of the Seeds (Sool) and Sool is the name of the Fifth Head which had just been seated in its original place Am, at the apex of the Four Headed Brahma! The Fifth Head called the Brahma Garbha is the Celestial Womb that contains the Cosmic Seeds. It is also the giver of Moksha, i.e., Liberation.
‘Mayaanakkollai’ that follows the auspicious day of the Night or Darkness of Siva known as ‘Sivaraathri’ is being celebrated annually in remembrance of the restoration of Brahma’s Fifth Head and relieving Siva of his Brahmahatthi Dhosha by restricting him to the control of Brahma as he ever have been. ‘Mayaanakkollai’ means ‘Loot of the Graveyard’. After the clash of Brahma and Vishnu, the world had turned into a graveyard. Looting a bank means after the loot, the bank’s assets will be lost. Likewise, looting the graveyard means, after the Fifth Head of Brahma looted the lifeless heap, the graveyard’s chattels had vanished implying that its lifeless mass had been rejuvenated!
When Brahma graces a place with Five Heads, it is to grant liberation en masse to every species dwelling there. In one of such visits at the advent of Pralayaa, i.e., Total Destruction, he cleaned the Cosmic Slate which is Sri Vishnu using Sri Siva, the Cosmic Eraser. The Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are the vital divinities. Of this trio, Vishnu and Siva are the tools of Brahma to chisel the concepts enumerated in the Vedas. The Vedas are ever expanding and ever contracting only to mean that we take birth to enact our corresponding Vedic themes in the course of expansion and we die in the relay race handing over the spirit of our themes to our successors in the course of contraction. Constancy is the simultaneous expansion and contraction so that the Vedas ever remain intact pulsating with the Truth of the Brahmaananthaanandham!
After the Fifth Head had been reinstalled, Brahma resumed his eternal craft of creation along with the Music of his adored consort Sri Saraswathi. Brahma’s primitive Swaroopaas are with each of his five heads individually, with two, three, four and five heads and also with infinities of other possibilities of multiple heads. Human Body is the temple of Brahmmam and it is based on one of the primeval Swaroopaas of Brahma and Brahmi. There is a one to one correspondence between the Head and Body of the Humans by way of external representation of the parts along with the respective internal similarities. They together appear as two conjoined Heads or Bodies. In short, the Head is the replica of the Body and hence the Universe in microcosm. The Head interacts with the Body as they together as an individual interact with another who is the counterpart thus mimicking the primal course of the Brahmmam!
Sri Paavaadairaayan is the Swaroopaa of Sri Brahma with his Fifth Head alone. He came to cleanse the sin of Siva, to purify him from the Brahmahatthi Dhosha and hence justify the meaning of his name Sri Paavaadairaayan. ‘Paavam’ means sin, ‘Adai’ means to settle, ‘Ra’ means to come and ‘Ayan’ means Brahma. ‘Raayan’ also means Brahma from above clearly pointing to the Crest Head, i.e., the Fifth Head of Brahma.
—S. Maheshkumar.
{Composed on 12th November 2007 at 2 PM from the previous Draft, with subsequent revisions made on 14th & 16th November 2007 at 10.01 AM & 4 PM respectively, Indian Standard Time.}
2 comments:
I am intrigued by your exposition of the Arunachala Puranam.I have been fascinated by this myth for quite some time now and it raised alot of questions for me of eschatological and cosmological significance.
Many of the ideas represented in your treatise correspond almost identically with wisdom from the Valentinian Gnostic tradition and the Nag Hammadi scriptures aswell as with many of the Taoist aphorisms of Lao Tse and ZhuangZi.
It has long puzzled me why when Brahma the Creator has been worshipped in various forms throughout the ancient and modern world in for example the ancient (and modern!)semitic and hellenic civilisations and even in Native American and African indigenous traditions, His veneration is virtually neglected in India to this day. A good example of concordance is John 1:1 "In the Begiining Was the Word (Logos)..) of the Bible and the Kathaka recension of Krishna Yajur-Veda ~ Kathaka Brahmana, XII: 5. "Prajapathi Vai Agre Asset.."
I sought for the answers in the Arunachala Puranam, and read on many occasions that it had to do with the fact that He lusted after His daughter Shatrupa aka Sri Saraswati and thus was the world was born through an act of incest for which he was cursed by Lord Shiva that there would be no temples built in India and basically exiled from India...
As an interesting aside you might find it trivial but interesting synchronicity that The Heavenly Father's Name recurs in many forms in western etymologies for example Father Abraham the first Jewish Patriarch and Sarah His sister and consort (cf.Saraswati ;-)), the great classical composers Brahms and (B)Rachmanininov to name a couple but perhaps you were already aware of these coincidences.. and it might interest you to know that to some popular American New Age spiritual mediums He has revealed Himself by the Name OM and Abraham.. there is even a beer named after Him in Brazil called Brahma, analogous in popularity to your very own national fizzy drink Thumsup lol
The concept of Brahmmam is hyper-mathematical!
If Sri Brahma is the son of Sri Brahmi, then the latter is the daughter of the former!
Perfection is the state of Brahmmam which manifests as Brahma and Brahmi; in that sense, the two are siblings!
Brahmmam is enshrined in our perfect selves as ‘Aham Brahmaasmi!’ Therefore, there is no need to build temples pseudoically in worshipment of Brahmmam the Supreme!
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