THE AUTHOR OF FATE

THE AUTHOR OF FATE

BY

S. MAHESHKUMAR

HUMAN LIFE in particular and Life in general is restricted by Time. All that exists is subjected to inexistence. All that lives is subjected to growth, decay and death. It is, but the speculations or predictions of these phenomena that really matters us to justify their validity now. Life springs from the hands of death to write its own destiny. If we look aptly this passage with acuteness, then we will be definitely in good terms with what we shall mean by the word Fate.

Death chokes in order to initiate Life. Fate is what is called the pre-registry or the almanac of the proceedings of the lively matter that disturb the womb. It is said that in order to take a birth one should have committed at least a sin. It is a necessary condition for a soul to enter and acquire a body. But all these kind of sayings are mere speculations. They are silly words without any seriousness. Life is trapped first by the soul’s gravity that is the womb once again and gets ejected after nourishment into an offspring as a result of successfully completing its concourse to form into an issue and so on. Indirectly we the soul-dwellers are influencing an unknown kind—the God perhaps who reaps out of our life and work done here in this mortal material world! At one stage we speak of death and at a later stage we compulsorily speak of immortality. In between these two extremes we come across the subjects which deal with the theories and practises of Fate—the so called Astrology or Horoscopy or Palmistry, etc.

Those who prefer very much to these speculative kinds surely do not know the essence of their true being as much as they know about the Fate of mankind as a whole! We cultivated these studies such as Astrology, Palmistry, etc., to the extent of satisfying the unfulfilled lust or desires of ourselves. In actuality, all the sciences originated only to conquer the monarchy of the Spirit. In all our efforts, we entertain less and suffer most by not seriously considering and not realising this truth respectively. Our conquest of death is that we say to it when we face it, “You kill me, oh, death! But not my seed!!”

Great people grow panicky to imagine themselves silently sleeping in their tombs one day! To facilitate their pseudo-immortality, they appreciate such theories called past life or post life that too in the form of good memories! There is no Fate and there is no Fateology just because the person who pretends to be its Author turns out to be a Fairy!

Fate is possible only when it is or its premises are limited. The word Fate simply signifies and praises the glory of the concept of limits, or limitednesses. So, a person should be unlimited to encompass limitedness. This requires the presence of a being who is infinite enough to author the finite. We are being converted from finitesimal (finitely small) to infinitesimal (infinitely small) all the time just because it is the only way that life course adopts, for it achieves infinitude by becoming infinitesimal from finitude as nothing is infinite. So by becoming nothing, we become infinite and by becoming something we become finite and limited. Infinity is the author of the finite as immortality surpasses mortality. Fate is only for the mortals and as soon as we transform our entire being into infinity, it dims the eyes of Fate to see us properly. As a result we observe it perfectly and determine its Fate!

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Written on 14th February 2000 at 1.05 PM Indian Standard Time.}

THE HOLY BRAHMATHEERTHAM OF SREE KAALAHASTHI

THE HOLY BRAHMATHEERTHAM OF SREE KAALAHASTHI

BY

S. MAHESHKUMAR

BRAHMATHEERTHAM and Saraswathitheertham are the two primordial sacred wells of Sree Kaalahasthi. The former has been located inside the temple dedicated to Lord Sree Brahma and the latter inside the Sree Kaalahastheeswara’s Temple which is also called the Paathaala Ganga!

When I visited the Brahma temple of Sree Kaalahasthi few days ago, it was strange to see that there were no walls enclosing the sanctum sanctorum. It appeared as an open space and I searched further for the divine Brahmatheertham. It was shattering to note that the sacred Brahmatheertham was sacrilegiously sealed and the walls guarding the Brahma temple were also sinfully smashed to grab land for constructing a new guest house and a cement road. The side stretching thoroughfare in front of the Brahma temple was blocked further.

Sree Brahma Temple

The wide open Brahma Temple!

The spot where the sacred Brahmatheertham well had been for ages and the cement road put by razing down the Brahma Temple walls!

The newly built guest house facing the Brahma Temple!

In mid 1990s, a large portion of the sacred hill of Sree Kaalahasthi encompassing the Bharadhwaaja Theertham was bombed to make way for vehicle and people traffic.

Hill blasted to facilitate passage to Lobavi

It seems that the Gaali Gopuram which fell with thunderous noise on 26-5-2010 was premeditated to fall as it stood blocking the way for traffic in its side! The conspiracy became obvious when the temple authorities and others began rebuilding a new Gopuram not at the exact place of the fallen Gaali Gopuram but at a place fairly far away for which a hotel premises was razed down as soon as the Gaali Gopuram fell.

Lethargic construction work far away from the original site of the collapsed Gaali Gopuram

Inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Sree Kaalahastheeswara Temple, the historic structure was gradually disfigured to add fenced queues, overbridged queues, air coolers and a lot of other paraphernalia. The chief deities of the temple are distanced from the poor public with a tag price to avail dharshan at close proximity for the rich.

The Sannadhi of Sree Kaalahastheeswara infested with queue trellises

At the instigation of corrupted astrologers and greedy temple staffs, the grand temple has turned into a mess and menace of Rahu-Kethu parihaara pooja shed. Every available space in the temple vicinity is now utilised mostly in favour of the said parihaara pooja. Finally, the vicious miscreants converted the temple into a godless anthropomorphic snake park in order to mint money.



It is said that by merely entering the holy temple of Sree Kaalahastheeswara, liberation is granted. The Sree Kaalahasthi Hill originally called Sree Brahmaachalam is regarded as the presiding deity Lord Sree Brahmaachaleswara Himself. The Gaali Gopuram was one of the testimonies of the missing temple dedicated to the supreme Lord Sree Brahmaachaleswara at the quadrangular ancient than the present hill side temple. This is evident from the practice of the Uthsava Moorthies of Sree Kaalahastheeswara temple going round the quadrangular on auspicious occasions. Also, the temple car circumambulates the quadrangular in worship of the latent and ubiquitous God of Sree Brahmaachalam!

Lord Sree Brahmaachaleswara (SVBC TV Image)

The holy hills of Sree Brahmaachalam and Sree Arunaachalam existed first followed by many ephemeral temples surrounding them.





In Thiruvannaamalai, Sree Arunachalam is revered and worshipped of paramount importance. But in Sree Kaalahasthi, the case is otherwise for so long. Let us worship the Holy Hill of Sree Kaalahasthi, i.e. Sree Brahmaachalam once again forever!

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Enhanced version of the draft composed on 15th February 2012 at 5.12 PM, Indian Standard Time.}

SRI BRAHMACHALAM

SRI BRAHMACHALAM

BY

S. MAHESHKUMAR

Sri Brahmachalam as seen from across Sri Bharadwaja Theertham, also known as Lobavi, Srikalahasthi!

SRI BRAHMACHALAM is the name of the holy hill which is also called as Srikalahasthi hill. Sri Brahmachalam is also referred to the region surrounding the hill known as Sri Kalahasthi. Sri Arunachalam is the name of the holy hill which is also called as Thiruvannamalai. Arunachalam is also referred to the region surrounding the hill known as Thiruvannamalai. Brahmachalam is the brain of the world whereas Arunachalam is the heart of the world. Prathyatcha Mukthi is the glory of Brahmachalam whereas Arunachalam is glorified with Smarana Mukthi.

Smaranam means Thinking. Smarana Mukthi is Liberation by Thinking. It is to be understood as the bhaktha's or the devotee's Smarana of Arunachalam which is possible only when Arunachalam thinks of the bhaktha's refined self that finally grants Arunamukthi!

Prathyatcham means Appearing and Mukthi means Liberation. Hence Prathyatcha Mukthi means Liberation by Appearing. It is to be understood as the bhaktha's or the devotee's Prathyatcha in Brahmachalam which is possible only when Brahmachalam Appears in the bhaktha's perfected self that finally bestows Brahmamukthi!!

Refining, Thinking and Arunamukthi matures respectively into Perfecting, Appearing and Brahmamukthi!!!

Sri Arunachalam as seen from across the Arunachaleswara Swamy Temple!

There are two temples for Lord Sri Arunachaleswara Swamy in Arunachalam apart from the colossal hill Arunachalam being regarded as Lord Sri Arunachaleswara Himself. The older of the two temples is Aadhi Arunachaleswarar Temple, also called as Adi Annamalai in Tamil simply because it is in the vicinity just beneath the Arunachala hill. The other is the modern temple found in the town of Thiruvannamalai which can also be called as Adi Annamalai as it is also in the vicinity just beneath the Arunachala hill. Hence, Adi Annamalai is a misnomer for Aadhi Annamalai!



Aadhi Arunachaleswarar Temple’s ‘Dharmakartha’ – i.e. Chief Trustee is Sri Brahma and the grand temple in the town of Sri Arunachaleswarar’s ‘Dharmakartha’ is Sri Vishnu incarnate Sri Venugopala Swamy. The Aadhi Arunachaleswarar Temple is considered as the miniature blue-print based on which was built the big temple in the town of Arunachalam.



In contrast, there is only one temple adjacent to the hill at Brahmachalam, i.e. Srikalahasthi. The Gaali Gopuram, the biggest temple tower, stands disconnected with the sanctum sanctorum of Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy temple. Arunachalam appears vertical while Brahmachalam appears horizontal. The 16 year old huntsman Thinnan, on the 6th day of his unorthodox but compassionate worship, who gouged his right eye and transplanted upon Sri Kudumithevar’s bloody right eye thinking that it might stop the bleeding, tried to repeat the same trick when he saw blood issuing out of the left eye, but his effort was curbed by the grace of Sri Brahmachaleswara Swamy who is none other than Sri Kudumithevar and Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy, yelled at the ardent lad: "Nillu, Kan Appa!, Nillu, Kan Appa!!", meaning: "Stop, don’t engraft eye!" hence the name Sri Kannappa granting him deliverance decreeing that he would thereafter stay to His right. At the grace of the Lord, the priest Sivakosariyar watched hiding behind these activities of Sri Kannappa leading to liberation.

Sri Kudumithevar and Sri Kannappa watched by priest Sivakosariyar

There is a shrine dedicated to Sri Kannappa upon the hill where the episode of Thinnan transforming into Sri Kannappa took place. There we see Sri Kannappa to the right side of Sri Kudumithevar. In the sannidhi of Lord Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy in the sanctum sanctorum, we see Sri Kannappa to His right. There is also another statue of Sri Kannappa to the right side of the sannidhi of Sri Kalahastheeswarar opposite the grand pillar facing the sannidhi justifying that Sri Kannappa would stay to His right.



Apart from these three idols of Sri Kannappa, one uphill in separate shrine and two within the temple premises, there is the sacrosanct shrine, facing the direction of the majestic Gaali Gopuram, situated at one of the corners of the mysterious quadrangle. All the ‘Neyvedhyam’ meant for Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy should be first offered Sri Kannappa at his quadrangle’s corner shrine.

The Sannadhi of Lord Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy, Srikalahasthi

The Urchava Moorthies of Lord Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy and other gods circumambulate this quadrangle on festival occasions. The Urchava Moorthies of Sri Gnanaprasunambika Devi sametha Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy will go round the Brahmachalam, i.e. Srikalahasthi hill, especially after Sivaraathri.



On the other extreme of the hill is a shrine called Sri Sahasthralinga Swamy. There is a temple in ruins dedicated to Lord Brahma situated slightly above the ground close to the hill at the backyard of the big temple in the vicinity near the entrance steps leading to the temple of Sri Kannappa uphill. There is seen the Brahmalingam, with four faces conjoined at four directions to the central lingam.



At the entrance to the big temple is seen a replica of the Brahmalingam in the shrine of Sri Baalagnaanaprasunaambika Devi Sametha Sri Panchamukheeswara Swamy. This shrine is also called as the shrine of Sri Baalakaalahastheeswara Swamy. The enigma of the quadrangle is associated with the holy temple dedicated to Sri Brahmachaleswara Swamy who is Sri Virat Viswakarma Parabrahma!

The quadrangle and the Gaali Gopuram are the remnants of the sacred temple dedicated to Sri Brahma or Sri Brahmachaleswara. Nowhere in the globe is Sri Brahma worshipped! There is no temple in his honour. The images of Brahma found in the temples of Siva or Vishnu or any other gods entertain no particular importance. They are underrated to fill the gap. But the most important event of these dominating deities’ temples is christened as Brahmothsavam, i.e. the event of Brahma! Before the Mohammedans and Christians invading India by desecrating many Hindu temples inflicted with conversion motives, there have been the same as far as the worship of Sri Brahma is concerned. There is truth in postulating that no religion or religious worship is perfect unless it is free of inconsistencies and contradictions. These imperfections tend to distract by way of inventing numerous gods in succession to add on to the rigmarole.



There is a desecrated statue of Goddess Sri Gnaanaprasunaambika Devi seen near Sri Panchamukheeswara Swamy shrine. The present statue of the consort of Lord Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy had been sculpted from a monolith along with two others, viz., the statues of Sri Kamakshi and Sri Varadharaja Perumal. The former is the presiding deity of the Kamakshi temple of Kancheepuram and the latter is the presiding deity of the Varadharaja Perumal temple situated in the precincts of the enigmatic quadrangular of Srikalahasthi.

Malik Kafur was notorious for the destruction of many temples in India. In order to evade the invasion of Alauddin Khilji’s eunuch general, Malik Kafur, who himself had been a converted Muslim, during the 13th-14th centuries, it was decided to pile up the entire chamber enclosing the inner shrine of Lord Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy with bran sacks and alike. A duplicate Kalahastheeswara Lingam was made and kept in the temple premises. The confused squad of Malik Kafur desecrated the duplicate image and the idol of the presiding goddess of the temple and fled.

The concept of Brahmmam is mathematical and in contrast against all other notions mostly based on belief, hearsay, idiosyncrasies, etc., leading to the blunder called religion. People tend to rephrase religion by religioising even science, cricket, cinema, etc. Religion of any kind by default is subjected to imminent collapse at one point or later chiefly due to its inconsistencies.

Like religious fanatics fighting in defense of their religions, say, christians converting non-christians, muslims desecrating temples, churches, etc., siva worshippers called saivas and vishnu worshippers called vaishnavas conspired and ousted Brahma worship for their own loss! Later, these two fanatics started quarrelling against each other giving way to all other similar never-ending disputes.

They commit all sorts of transgressions who call themselves brahmins; do they really worship the Brahmmam in whose name they boast their cults with? No! How dare the worshippers of siva and vishnu call themselves brahmins? Isn’t it a primal flaw? A primal flaw gives way to exposure if pursued seriously! Like the just mentioned brahmins, there are people who call themselves christians, muslims, etc., who do all sorts of delinquencies, mudslinging, nitpicking against their counterparts. They brag that they are stern supporters of their religions without any keen assessment of their imposed beliefs, be it by brainwashing or passed on faiths or any other fixated means. Religion cannot be seriously pursued! If seriously pursued, one becomes irreligious resulting in enlightenment!

The reverberating truth of Brahmmam is ever ubiquitous! All that has been lamented as the fallacies of the Brahmmam are corruptions by those who failed to grasp the ever perfect idea i.e. the Brahmmam!



Before Sri Kannappa, there are references of Lord Rama’s visit to Srikalahasthi in the Ramayana. Prior to Rama, Sri the Spider, Kala the Snake and Hasthi the Elephant worshipped Lord Brahmachaleswara Swamy and attained Mukthi, on behalf of their names, He is called as ‘Srikalahastheeswara.’ We see the five impressions at the head of the Srikalahastheeswaralingam depicting Sri the Snake, the two trunks on either side of the same representing Hasthi the Elephant, Sri the Spider at its base and Sri Kannappa’s offering, i.e. his right eye, at the centre of it. The Brahmachaleswaralingam is unique and it clearly embodies the primordial. It is not the Sivalingam but the Brahmalingam! Abhishekam of the Lord is performed with raw camphor mixed water. The Brahmalingam is encompassed by the Vayulingam which is Sri Brahma. The base of the Brahmalingam is Sri Vishnu. Hence the ubiquitous name, Brahma-Chala-Eeswara! The Kalahastheeswaralingam is realised as the Panchaantharmukhalingam! It is shielded in front by the Navagraha Kavacham, its 9 digits representing the Navagrahas, the 27 Nakshathras are equally distributed into the 9 digits as 3 little stars each!

The majestic Srikalahasthi Gaali Gopuram on the banks of Swarnamukhi

The Gaali Gopuram of Srikalahasthi had been built by Sri Krishnadevaraya during 1510-1516 AD. There ought to be a similar one in its place which Sri Krishnadevaraya must have rebuilt or renovated! On 26th May, 2010, the famous Gaali Gopuram of Srikalahasthi collapsed completely around 8 PM. A temple tower getting collapsed like this has hardly been ever heard. The temple authorities have been maintaining the sanctum sanctorum very badly for the past few decades, disfiguring the architecture of the temple to make way for queues with the fences, special Rahu-Kethu Sarpadosha Poojas, bombing the adjacent hill to pave way leading to the Bharadwaja Theertham (Lobavi), numb-watching several buildings infest around the temple as well as the Gaali Gopuram and more all due to ignorance.

The Gaali Gopuram few years ago!

The Gaali Gopuram—A Closer View!

There have been reports of similar cracks in the other Gopurams guarding the temple precincts like the Gaali Gopuram before it fell. Pothuluri Veera Brahmendra Swamy predicted in his Kaalagnaanam that the Kalahastheeswaralingam would move away to Srisailam and crocodiles amass the inner shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Thirumala. He never mentioned about the fall of the Gaali Gopuram of Srikalahasthi. His false prediction that "sparrows seated on top of the submerged Srikalahasthi Gaali Gopuram would quench thirst by just bending down!" has now put the validity of his Kaalagnaanam in miserability.

The surrounding hilly region blasted to make way for traffic at Lobavi!

It is time for the hidden truth of the place and the temple of Srikalahasthi to unfold on its own after the collapse of the Gaali Gopuram.

The Sthalavrukshas of Srikalahastheeswara's temple are Vilva and Mahizha! The Vilva tree is worshipped with camphor and other offerings in the passage behind the Ashtothralingam Shrine leading to the main entrance of the temple. It is seen as a sapling nowadays and not maintained well to grow as a tree like in the old times. However the other Sthalavruksha Mahizha is adorned by a raised marble square around it and people worship it with turmeric, vermilion and other paraphernalia and some of them tie their Sankalpas or wishes, in the form of sacred threads, bands, tiny cradles, etc., to the tree and its branches, the prayers are mostly, if unmarried, to get married soon or if childless, to beget a child!



The steps to Sri Kannappa Shrine uphill had recently been renovated and the back entrance to the temple is presently decorated with a Mandapam.



Sri Kannappa worshipped not the present Srikalahastheeswaralingam found inside the Srikahalahastheeswara temple which is at the base of the hill. He worshipped the Brahmalingam with one of the five faces of Sri Brahma’s as Bahirmukha, i.e., external face, appearing on it upon the hill of Sri Brahmachalam. The other four internal faces in that case are termed as Antharmukhas.



There are six forms of Sri Brahma, viz., five internal faces (Srikalahastheeswaralingam), four internal faces (Sri Ekamukhalingam), three internal faces, two internal faces, one internal face (Panchamukheeswaralingam) and all external faces Srimadh Virat Viswakarma Parabrahmam) of the Brahmalingam. The flickering of one of the two lamps near the Srikalahastheeswaralingam is attributed to indicate the presence of Vayulingam. But in reality, it is the technique of putting the wick in such a way that one of the two lamps flickers and the other not. This shaking lamp near the Srikalahastheeswaralingam is a later development like the Golden Lizard kept recently in the ceiling near the Dhvajasthambam of Lord Srikalahastheeswara Swamy Sannidhi which is similar to the famous Lizard in Kancheepuram Varadharaja Swamy Temple.

The sole distinction between the Brahmalingam and the Sivalingam is that the former is identified with faces, irrespective of whether they are internal or external of the lingam and the latter is a mere lingam without faces externally and more particularly internally! The Brahmalingam like Srikalahastheeswaralingam with all its five faces residing internally as panchaantharmukham appears as the Sivalingam externally! This is the root of all confusions to mistake Siva as Brahma and to attribute Brahma's qualities to Siva to the extent of suppressing the crucial worship of Brahma! To warn such menace, there are five protrusions on the top of Srikalahastheeswaralingam along with other unique characteristics of Lord Sri Brahmachaleswara Swamy who is the chief deity of Sri Brahmachalam i.e. Srikalahasthi. The episode of Sri Kannappa is also a latter addition like the story of the Spider Sri, the Snake Kala and the Elephant Hasthi for changing the original name Sri Brahmachalam to Srikalahasthi! Panchamukhabrahma is also called Panchamukheeswara for He alone is the Brahmeswara! He digests Siva for He is the Lingajeeranamoorthi! The reason for His five faces Eesanyam, Thathpurusham, Agoram, Vamadevam and Sathyojatham is for the purpose of creation, protection, destruction, cryption and salvation. His Veda is perfect and is called the Brahma Vedam.

For disorder’s sake, Sri Brahma’s quintessential five-fold nature of works are reduced to two, namely, protection by Vishnu and destruction by Siva and they share the remaining tasks, viz., creation, cryption and salvation equally among themselves in order that imperfection would also be given a chance! Confusion prevails when Siva and Vishnu takeover to mimic Brahma! Disorder and imperfection gradually lead to imbalances which in turn lead to mahapralaya resulting in mahasrushti. Siva and Vishnu are mere tools of Sri Brahma and no more and no less than that. When the World turns incurably into a disorderly mess, Sri Parabrahma (Brahma, Vishnu and Siva combined) initiates Mahapralaya, i.e. total destruction, by appearing growing extending towards the base and the apex within Siva as Lingodhbhavamoorthi to wipe out the entire cosmos and after the process called digestion of Siva, as Lingajeeranamoorthi, super-create the Universe,known as Mahashrushti and super-protect it, termed as Maharaksha, afterwards. The Antharmukham in the form of the Lingodhbhavamoorthi and the Bahirmukhams of Sri Parabrahma digests completely the entirety of Siva during all Mahapralayas.

Sri Parabrahma (the Trinity) during Mahapralaya appearing in Siva as Lingodhbhavamoorthi expanding in either ways as a column of fire, Brahma as Hamsa (Swan) chasing the top and Vishnu as Varaha (Boar) the abyss and Saraswathi as Thazhampoo (Screw Pine Flower/Pandanus odoratissimus) in Brahma’s grip!

Please refer to the following two tracts I have written in this regard:-
Sri Arunachala Puranam Revisited
Sri Paavaadairaayan



Why are the Vaahanas for Sri Annamalaiyar and Sri Unnamulai Amman the same, i.e. Sri Nandhi?

About the Mounts or Vaahanas of the Trinity Gods & Goddesses:-

Sri Brahma: Cob Swan (Male Swan)
Sri Saraswathi: Pen Swan (Female Swan)

Sri Vishnu: Garuda (Eagle)
Sri Lakshmi: Owl

Sri Siva: Nandhi (Bull)
Sri Sakthi: Lion

An interpretation says that they share the same Vaahana because they are one. That is, Annamalaiyar is Ardhanaareeswara swarupa. He is both Siva and Sakthi.

This explanation as to the same Vaahana, i.e. the Bull, Sri Nandhi to Sri Annamalaiyar and to Sri Unnamulai Amman is based on Siva's yielding the left portion of His Entirety to Sri Parvathi to be known as Sri Ardhanaareeswara! This in no way justifies the grounds for the Nandhi Vaahana for both Sri Annamalaiyar and to Sri Unnamulai Amman found in Thiruvannamalai's Big temple and its miniature, the Aadhi Annamalaiyar temple! The Ardhanaareeswara concept may be suitable for the Sri Kokilaambal sametha Sri Kalyaanasundareswarar temple in Thirumancheri where Nandhi is the common Vaahana of the presiding deities.

Sri Unnamulai Amman is Sri Sarvanaareeswara. She is the female form of Lord Sri Siva. As Sri Mohini is the female form of Lord Sri Vishnu, the female form, or the sibling of Lord Sri Siva is Goddess Sri Saraswathi. The female form of Lord Sri Brahma or His sibling is none other than Goddess Sri Mahalakshmi. Likewise, the female form or sibling of Lord Sri Vishnu is Sri Sakthi or Sri Parvathi. Thus goes the relationship of the gods!

In all of us reside our respective female or male forms according as the body being male or female respectively!

In the case of Sri Arunachaleswara Swamy, 'Runam' means 'Annuvathu', i.e. 'United maritally!' Therefore 'Arunam' means 'Annaathathu', i.e. 'Can't be united maritally!' Hence His match or Consort is extracted from Himself so that the extracted also is like Him, i.e. She is 'Sri Aruna' or 'Sri Arunachaleswari', etc. Because He is Annamalai, She is Unnamulai and vice versa!! Sri Arunachala is Sri Siva, the male form of Sri Unnamulai Amman which implies in turn that Sri Apeethakuchambal is Sri Siva's female form!

It is only keeping with this truth of Sri Arunachalam that Sri Nandhi Vaahana adorns the Sanctum Sanctorums of Sri Annamalaiyar as well as Sri Unnamulai Amman respectively!

Definitely, Sri Unnamulai Amman is not Sri Sakthi! This is clearly evident from the Hamsa Kavacham adorned at the base of Sri Unnamulai Amman's statue seen in Her Moolavar Sannidhi of Sri Arunachaleswara Swamy temple in Thiruvannamalai.

Sri Annamalaiyar and Sri Unnamulai Amman are Sri Sarvanareswari and Sri Sarvanaareeswara respectively! Eeswaram is the primordial form of Eeswara and Eeswari! Eeswaram and Brahmmam are respectively correlated as Zero (0) and Infinity (∞)! It is further elaborated that Eeswara (+0) and Eeswari (-0) are equated to Eeswaram (0) by the mathematical equation: 0 = ± 0. The product of Brahmmam (∞) and Eeswaram (0) is the Universe of Creation or of the Logical Discouse! That is, by mathematical terms: ∞ × 0 = N where N represent Numbers of all sorts! In our elucidation, we take Numbers as Narayanam!

Arunachalam and Brahmachalam are the sacred hummocks representing Sri Saraswathi and Sri Brahma respectively. Also, they represent the Trinities and all possible gods! Sri Narayanam as Sri Anantha Padhmanaabha Swamy is made up of the created, i.e., the Numbers! Sri Brahma appears seated on the Lotus sprouted from Sri Narayana's or the Kaalagarbha's or Time's womb's navel! Sri Anantha is Sri Brahma and Sri Padhmanaabha Swamy is Sri Chalam. Based on this context, Sri Anantha Padhmanaabha Swamy is called Sri Brahmachalam! In Brahmmam = Anantham = Infinity, there are Zero and Numbers! In Chalam = Narayanam = Numbers, there is Zero. Hence, Sri Brahmachalam is Sri Brahmachaleswara Swamy encompassing Sri Brahma, Sri Narayana and Sri Eeswara! The following portrait is also called, 'Sri Naaraayanaasanaanantha Swamy!'

Sri Naaraayanaasanaanantha Swamy!

Parabrahmmam is Brahma—Anantha—Aanandham! Brahmaanandham is the Perfect—Bliss. Creation is the quintessential among the five-folded processes of Perfection. Creation comes to an end when Sri Brahma is satisfied. When Sri Brahma is satisfied, in order to stay Perfect, He dismantles His satisfied Mind, i.e. Sri Brahma's Ego, entrusting It to eradicate imperfection if any, in His entirety, due to His momentary satisfaction. If there is imperfection, Brahma's satisfied Ego prepares for Total Destruction. Otherwise, when everything is Perfect, Brahma's satisfied Ego merges in the Brahmmam along with the perfectly created and this is called as the Brahmamoksha or Brahmamukthi!

Sri Brahmachalam is the Aadhi, Madhyamam, Anumadhyamam and Antham of Sri Arunachalam. Sri Aadhi Arunachalam represents birth of it as Brahma's satisfaction incarnate Ego which is a self imposed check of Brahma's perfection. Sri Madhyama Arunachalam represents the shift of Brahma's satisfied Ego to the cosmic container Sri Vishnu in order to effect imbalance resulting in chaos. Sri Anumadhyama Arunachalam is the advent of Brahma's satisfied Ego en route Sri Vishnu in the cosmic eraser Sri Siva as Sri Lingodhbhavanamoorthi on the ordeal to wipe out the cosmic dust. And Sri Antha Arunachalam represents the emergence of Brahma's satisfied Ego as Sri Lingodhbhavamoorthi in Sri Sivalingam in its end of mission by digesting the cosmic dust, the cosmic container and the cosmic eraser termed as Sri Lingajeeranamoorthi leading to Arunamukthi by ardent Refining and Thinking and resuming the process of perfection by creation awaiting for Brahma's satisfaction in the Prathyatcham or Appearance of Brahma's Ego again which qualifies the Perfected culminating in the coveted Brahmamukthi!

Since Sri Arunachalam is the manifestation of Sri Brahma's satisfied Ego, in all its courses until fulfillment of checking perfection in Sri Brahma's enterprise, Sri Brahma's consort Sri Saraswathi also accompanies Brahma's satisfied Ego in the venture. To embody this, Sri Saraswathi adorns Sri Arunachaleswara as Sri Aruna, also known as Sri Apeethakuchambal!

Sri Brahma's vistas range even beyond the five-folded aspects of Jagrath the waking, Swapna the dreaming, Sushupthi the dreamless sleep, Thuriya the consciousness and Thuriyaatheetha the transcendental. Sri Brahmi accompanies Sri Brahma in each and every enterprise. Sri Thuriyaatheetha Saraswathi is the consort of Sri Thuriyaatheetha Brahma!



Sri Brahmachaleswara Swamy is Sri Parabrahma, Sri Gnanaprasunambika Devi is Sri Parabrahmi and their communion is Sri Parabrahmmam! The ideal temple of Sri Parabrahmmam is the Perfected Self alone as derived from the Brahmasoothra, 'Aham Brahmaasmi!' It is said that the Srikalahasthi temple has been built and rebuilt for several times based on varying principles. In fact, there is no structure man-made that stands the test of time, there is none by nature animate or inanimate lasting for ages and there is nothing that encompasses the Parabrahmmam eternally except itself! Sri Brahmachalam is always enshrined in Sri Parabrahmmam and the vice versa!

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Composed from old draft of December 2008 on 1st June 2010 at 4 PM and lastly enhanced on 4th August 2010 at 12.48 PM, Indian Standard Time.}

ON APPROXIMATING GOD

ON APPROXIMATING GOD

BY

S. MAHESHKUMAR

IF an ardent Mind cultivates the habit of segregating things in its attempt to digest the schema of the state of affairs concerning terms such as God, Godhood, Goddics, ... , Goddist, it only befall into the gorgeous traps of Numerising the NEUTRAL ZERO that is THE GOD. Estimating the Truth as to how its hold upon our Psyche will be without absorbing in it is a folly. Gauging the Void without being unable to grip it is a hurdle. Evaluating the Immathematical by means of Mathematical manipulations is a waste of energy and time. We cannot be satisfied with the fake of approximation for so long a time and roam like a somnambulist suppressing our Will to realise and deduce our Inner Wisdom.

GOD IS NOT ONE BUT ALSO NOT TWO AND IS ZERO. And ZERO is in INFINITY but not the vice versa Mathematically, so to speak. In other words, Zero is condensed Infinity whereas Infinity is expanded Zero. These are tautological theories in the Numeristic perspectives of the World. But Zero is Nonnumeric in its Absolute Crux. The Pythagoreans thought that All things were Numbers and believed that by investigating the Numbers lay the clue to God. Most of the Materialists think likewise even now. If God demotes Himself, then only He yields to such transient bluffs. All Material must have to deteriorate and perish by the way of refining itself in the process of transcending into Divinity. Centuries had gone by practicing the Material Mathematics with the Numbers representing the bricks that get composed into the Pseudo Structures and dense the mortal world. In that case, mortality is a boon in order to wipe out the dust and maintain the niceties of the world for posterity.

Human Life has to wobble between Zeros, from origination till its destination. Can you suggest any number without Zero? If you tell 2, for example, then let me explain that 2 + 0 = 2. Therefore, Zero is the container of each and every Number that is we Humans. What we do is misjudged as the thing authored by us. It is in actuality the doing of our Transcendental Self, i.e. Zero that does not bother even if we ignorant Numbers claim that we are responsible for the Ubiquitous Vistas of the Universe!

We as a Sum-Total should bring about the Liberation En Masse and transform into Zero. Until then, we must train and tame the God of Ego, i.e. the Mind that resides as a residue, like the Number in communion with the Zero, as the Body embracing the INNER SELF of US to never cross its limits in approximating GOD and found a Pseudo World!

Some Aphorisms to process our Musical Souls: -

"Classical Music and Modern Music are relative terms. Future is being digested Presently and ejected into the Past. The ejected is classified into Immortally Classical (that can be cherished!) and Mortally Evaporational (or Excretional!)".

"Absolute Music is the eternal stuff of Classical Music that can be revived into Modern Music! In short, reviving is the real meaning of our inherent musical souls in order to stay alive in the present, willing for the everlasting bliss of the Divine!"

"The pre-ordained duty of the bliss of Divine Music is to churn the thought bank, i.e. the Mind continuously at the cataclysmic climax of which the Kundalini Amrutam or the Ectoplasmic Ambrosia is evoked in the brain resulting in Moksha."

"A Soul (=Spirit) has to be Poetically Inspired, Musically Matured, Philosophically Refined & Mathematically Perfected in order to Transform itself into Godhood."

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Composed on 4th & 5th of July 2006 at 6.14 PM & 4.26PM respectively, Indian Standard Time.}

THE FAUX PAS OF RAMANA

THE FAUX PAS OF RAMANA
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR

THE utmost unfortunate incident in my life had been the influence of Ramana and his confusion prone contradictory teachings. I had wasted more than a quarter of a century from 1982 to 2008 in dabbling with the preachings of Ramana. I would have been continuing like that as a Ramana-maniac or shortly Ramaniac but recently I was relieved of the devil as a result of the precarious and vicarious attitudes of the people belonging to Ramana’s younger brother’s family who runs the ashram called Ramanasramam as well as some of the parasites of Ramana’s family ashram along with the past and present Ramaniacs.

I was introduced to Ramana during 1982-83 by my maternal uncle Mr. Shanmuga Sundaram when we were discussing rational philosophy. Later Mr. Illaiyaraja guided me to Ramanasramam when I met him at his residence around 7 a.m. on 26th January 1987 asking about the details as to the availability of the book ‘Arunmozhi Thoguppu’ that he oftentimes quoted as a source of his inspiration. As per Illaiyaraja’s suggestion, I had contacted either by letters the Ramanasramam Book Depot or by visits to Ramanasramam and availed the cited book along with many others in a series ending in April, 2008 when I payed my last visit to Ramanasramam. I had honestly searched for clarity in those books that they always lacked dishonestly.

Why do many ardent devotees leave Ramana? The list includes the maiden English biographer of Ramana, B. V. Narasimha Swami, who later changed camps and popularised Shirdi Sai Baba by founding the All India Shirdi Sai Baba Samaj, even Paul Brunton cast aside Ramana and clung to his original faith during his last days, the Paramacharya of Kanchi who had earlier guided Paul Brunton to Ramana objected later when a miniature Arunachaleswarar shrine was built on the samadhi of Ramana’s mother, … so on.

There were mints of faux pas of Ramana that explain the prevalent collapse of his stature. First, he started as a truant by escaping from his mundane responsibilities to Tiruvannamalai when his elder brother out of concern asked him to concentrate in studies and partake along with him to raise their fatherless family. Just like a person who thought he had escaped successfully forever from his household duties by living in a secluded orphanage was forced not only to look after his mundane needs but also to care for his fellow dwellers in the asylum in a larger scale.

From beggar to bhagavan, Ramana’s career flourished into fame and affluence acquiring an ashram of assets that in the end he even wrote a will of properties in favour of his younger brother’s lineages that led not to Ramanasramam but to Ramana’s family ashramam.

About Ramana’s fake death experiences, which he claimed had burnt his ego completely, there were plenty of incidents that expose his monstrous and mighty ego which had grown untamed to gorgeous proportions. When a dog chased aggressively a squirrel and passed by the side of strolling Ramana in his mid sixties with his attendants, he shouted “dhushta” and threw his walking stick over the dog in defence of the fleeing squirrel and fell down resulting in bone injury. This was one of the innumerable instances revealing Ramana’s undestroyed ego.

To analyse Ramana’s confusions and contradictions, take the case of his repeatedly saying about the location of the Heart that it was in the right side of the chest. The physical heart is situated at the left; if the Heart that he had been referring to was the spiritual heart, let it be for a while. Ramana defended his statement by citing that people usually touch with their right hand fingers at the right side of their chests when they refer to themselves. I had noticed in many instances with the left-handers in similar situations that they point with their left hand fingers at the left side of their chests when they refer to themselves.

In the book, ‘Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi’, there is an entry dated 2nd April, 1937, No. 380. This crucial dialogue between a serious aspirant and jesting Ramana testifies the ensnared Ramana:

380. A European gentleman asked: How do you answer the question, “Who are you?”
Maharshi: Ask yourself the question, “Who am I?”
Devotee: Please tell me how you have found it. I shall not be able to find it myself. (The ‘I’ is the result of biological forces. It results in silence. I want to know how the Master finds it.)
M.: Is it found only by logic? The scientific analysis is due to intellect.
D.: According to J. C. Bose, nature does not make any difference between a worm and a man.
M.: What is Nature?
D.: It is that which exists.
M.: How do you know the existence?
D.: By my senses.
M.: ‘My’ implies your existence. But you are speaking of another’s existence. You must exist to speak of “my senses”. There cannot be ‘my’ without ‘I’.
D.: I am a poor creature. I come to ask you, Great Master that you are, what this existence is. There is no special significance in the word existence. He exists, I exist and others exist. What of that?
M.: The existence of any one posited, shows your own existence. “Existence is your name.”
D.: There is nothing strange in anything existing.
M.: How do you know its existence—rather than your own existence?
D.: What is new in the existence of anything? I take up your book and read there that the one question one should ask oneself is “Who am I?” I want to know “Who are you?” I have my own answer. If another says the same, and so too, millions of others, there is the probability of the Self. I want a positive answer for the question and no playing with words.
M.: In this way you are in the region of probabilities at the best.
D.: Yes. There are no certainties. Even God cannot be proved to be absolute certainty.
M.: Leave God alone for the time being. What of yourself?
D.: I want confirmation of the Self.
M.: You seek the confirmation from others. Each one though addressed as ‘you’, styles himself ‘I’. The confirmation is only from ‘I’. There is no ‘you’ at all. All are comprised in ‘I’. The other can be known only when the Self is posited. The others do not exist without the subject.
D.: Again, this is nothing new. When I was with Sir C. V. Raman, he told me that the theory of smell could be explained from his theory of light. Smell need no longer be explained in terms of chemistry. Now, there is something new; it is progress. That is what I mean, when I say that there is nothing new in all the statements I hear now.
M.: ‘I’ is never new. It is eternally the same.
D.: Do you mean to say that there is no progress?
M.: Progress is perceived by the outgoing mind. Everything is still when the mind is introverted and the Self is sought.
D.: The Sciences—what becomes of them?
M.: They all end in the Self. The Self is their finality.
(It was 5 p.m.; Sri Bhagavan left the hall and the gentleman left for the station.)

Throughout his life, Ramana made a fuss with his ‘Who am I?’ arguments. A lady sat before Ramana at his prime and kept on weeping. When she was asked for the reason of her weeping, she replied that saints like Arunagirinathar and Pattinathar had scolded the womenfolk in their poems and she was weeping before Ramana just because of a verse in his Arunachala Aksharamanamalai that similarly yell at the womenfolk. It is the verse No. 20:

“கூர்வாட் கண்ணியர் கொடுமையிற் படாதருள்
கூர்ந்தெனைச் சேர்ந்தரு ளருணாசலா!”

It means: Graciously merge with me evading the tortures of the piercingly sword eyed, Arunachala!

Ramana was embarrassed at the lady devotee’s sadness and consoled her that the person who had written those verses had vanished long ago and added further that the verse was meant only against the bad women.

I had once written a short comparative study of the mathematician-philosopher René Descartes and Ramana. Descartes’ cartesianism was original whereas Ramana’s self-enquiry teachings were extracted from Gnana Vasishtam which is also called Yoga Vasishtam. With his confusions, Ramana presented a corrupted version of the treatise of Sage Vasishta as if he had experienced the essential truth of it. Vasishta was Lord Rama’s maiden guru and the son of Lord Brahma. Vasishta’s teachings to Rama chiefly constitute the theme of Gnana Vasishtam.

Athma Vicharam or self-enquiry graduates into Athma Samarpanam or self-surrender. If the supreme wisdom is attainable by Athma Vicharam alone, what is the use of Athma Samarpanam?

The Id that is the Ego which is the EGOID is the Spent Energy of Brahma. It cannot be destroyed or produced similar to the law of conservation of energy, viz., “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; one form of energy can be converted into another but the total energy remains the same.”

The axiom of indestructibility of Ego is: “Ego can never be created nor destroyed; it can only be shrinked or expanded.”

The course of the Spent Energy of Brahma is to rejuvenate and recharge itself to be able to refine and perfect by the process of life, work and time until it is transformed into the Absolute Brahma Shakthi.

Brahma’s perspiration is the Ego and Ego’s perspiration is the Brahma. They are connected by this eternal equation. Why is it that Brahma exerts by spending his energy? We all work to tend to equilibrium, to maintain harmony, and likewise, Brahma uses the inconsistent energies that accumulate within his enterprise, by spending to build the cosmos, by expansion and contraction simultaneously causing reverberations resulting in a state of taut. The infinitesimal Ego interacts with the infinite Brahma and this phenomena animates everywhere in the universe for good!

Athma Vicharam is completed when the Vichari or enquirer learns that the Ego cannot be destroyed and as a result of that wisdom, the Vichari tames the Ego to finally transform into the Absolute Brahmmam and this is done by Athma Samarpanam. Athma Vicharam matures into Athma Samarpanam! Ego is the relentless master and true guru that is notoriously misunderstood like Brahma but by its tasks for refinements and perfections, it is destined to succeed in reaping the benefits of its transformation into the Absolute Brahmmam!

Muruganar was the Tamil influence and literary ghost of Ramana. He ruthlessly abandoned his devoted wife in order to fall prey to Ramana. He authored several confused doctrines, many a second rate adaptations like Thiruvachakam reworked into Ramana Sannidhi Murai, etc. Most of his poems boast that Ramana was not the body, but when Ramana passed away, he was really upset till his own passing away contradicting the message he intended for others in his confused poems.

Sadhu Om was infected with vicarious feelings that were the chief by product of his Ramana pursuit. By vicariousness is meant the second hand feeling, the false thinking of associating oneself with heroic deeds or any other thing that one cannot actually attain or achieve, for example. He answered to his followers as if he was possessed by Ramana. Like the miniature Arunachaleswarar shrine over the samadhi of Ramana’s mother, Sadhu Om’s followers had built one such upon his mortal remains. It is like a confusion causing multiple confusions around it!

Preaching and practice differed in Ramana’s deeds and thinking that could be ascribed to the false premises that he had started with. This was the root cause of the confusions and contradictions in his teachings paving ruin not only to his dogma but also to the ignorant followers. However, serious pursuers might resolve the Ramana perplexities of their own due to their deepest seriousness.

Mahatma Gandhi preached non-violence only to get killed violently in the end. Buddha taught vegetarianism only to consume decomposed pork in the end and die due to food poisoning. Ramana kept on saying that he had conquered death vicariously and died very elaborately in the end suffering from malignant tumor only to get exposed to what real death experience would be!

Sri Aurobindo’s tomes elucidate immortal life but when he died on 5th December 1950, it was a terrible blow not only to the mortal that he ever was but to his followers who persisted by the side of his corpse waiting for few more days in hope that their master might re-enter his body again and prove the validity of his statements.

It was reported that just at the time of Ramana’s passing away, a comet or shooting star had been seen flying upwards which disappeared beside the summit of the Arunachala Hill. This has been the usual case near hilly regions and I myself had seen one during the midnight at 1.05.09 a.m. on 13th December 1989, when a shooting star appeared descending from above the summit of the Arunachala Hill. These observations were associated sentimentally with end or start of good or bad. The same upward flying shooting star associated with Ramana’s death when observed from the other side of the Arunachala Hill would have appeared like the descending of the shooting star from the summit of Arunachala!

Any theory imperfectly founded on false premises would certainly end up in ignorance and darkness! Be it Aurobindo or Ramana, Mozart or Beethoven, Galois or Ramanujan and Russell or Wittgenstein, their works bear incompleteness even though they seem to be sparkling with dots of brilliance here and there in the sense that they were merely disjointed independent poetical, musical, mathematical and philosophical outpourings respectively and not an amalgamation of all the four called poemusimathesophy.

A soul has to be poetically inspired, musically matured, philosophically refined and mathematically perfected in order to transform itself into Godhood. The mind, the intermediary between the soul and the body has to pronounce in unison with the spiritualistic quest of the soul and the materialistic lust of the body but its ultimate preference should be in the direction of ascending the ladders of liberation along with the soul. If the human mind joins with the cravings of the body only and corrupts itself and descend to the level below that of animals, then it should carve a permanent niche for the body in the doom of materialism.

The indestructible ego might converge into perfect being by constantly abiding in itself. This is the meaning of the following triplet in Tamil:

“அழியா அகமே ஆகுமே
சித்தம் நிலைநிற்று உந்தீபற
பரம் பொருளாகவே உந்தீபற”

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Composed on 11th & 12th September 2008 at 4.21 PM & 1.11 PM respectively, Indian Standard Time.}

SRI PAAVAADAIRAAYAN

SRI PAAVAADAIRAAYAN

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!

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.}

THE GREATNESS OF BRAHMACHALAM

THE GREATNESS OF BRAHMACHALAM

BY

S. MAHESHKUMAR

BY seeing Chidambaram, by being born, in Thiruvarur, by dying in Kashi, or by merely thinking of Arunachala, one will surely attain Liberation.

By visiting Brahmachalam (Pravesa Mukthi) or by merely breathing “Brahmachalam”, Liberation is guaranteed.

Arunachalam (the Hill) is Zero (0) and Brahmachalam (the Hill) is Infinity (∞).

By meditating the essence and truism of Brahmachalam, the Supreme Wisdom of the Brahma Vedam is attained.

The Rama Namam is derived from its source Brahmachalam.

Sri Rama visited Brahmachalam, that is, Srikalahasti.

Sri Kannappa Swamy attained liberation in 6 days with the grace of Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy who is none other than Lord Sri Brahmachaleswara Swamy.

The equality of the Brahma Lingams, one inside the Sanctum Sanctorum of Lord Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy and the other inside the Balagnanaprasunambika Devi Shrine at the entrance of the Temple is based on the Tamil word, “கடவுள்” (Kadavul). “Kada” means that which is beyond or invisible; “Vul” means that which is within or visible. In the Moola Sannidhi of Lord Sri Kalahastheeswara Swamy, “Kada” is referred to the Vayu Lingam whose presence is signified by the flickering of the lamps at the right side of the Virat Lingam which is represented by “Vul”. In the case of the Panchamukheeswara Swamy Lingam inside the Balagnanaprasunambika Devi Shrine, “Kada” is worshipped as the Brahma Lingam of Lord Sri Panchamukheeswara Swamy and “Vul” is to the right of it where an erected structure is being preserved similar to that of the Moola Virat Lingam inside the Temple. Hence, “Kadavul” is the description of the Lord inside the Garba Gruham whereas “Vulkada” is the depiction of the Lord inside the Balagnanaprasunambika Devi Shrine at the entrance of the Temple. “Kadavul” is by pronouncing it in this way “→” and “Vulkada” is by pronouncing it in this way “←”.

Breathing Brahmachalam means inhaling and exhaling the syllables of the word. Hence the symbols “←” and “→” considered earlier point to the inhaling and exhaling of Brahmachalam.

Brahma Lingam is the combination of Brahmmam, Eswaram and Narayanam. The Five protrusions found on top of the Moola Virat Lingam of Sri Kalahastheeswara and the Four External Faces along with the One Internal Face of the Pancha Mukha Lingam of Sri Brahmachaleswara glorifies the Five Faces of Sri Virat Viswakarma Para Brahma!

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Composed on 10th October 2007 at 2.50 PM, Indian Standard Time.}