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Learn Tirumanthiram through Pictures- 2 (Post No.13,600)
What is Tirumantiram ? Who is Tirumular?
Tirumuar is one of the traditional eighteen Siddhas. He came to Tamil Nadu from the Himalaya region. When he saw the dead body of a cowherd named Mulan (muulan) and the grieving cows around him, he used his magical power and entered the body of the cowherd. The cows were happy now. He sat in meditation and composed 3000 poems and it is known as Tirumanthiram. Saivites who follow the Agamas, never recognised the Siddhas, who were iconoclasts. But Tirumathiram was given a place in the Saivite literature that is made up of 12 sections. And Tirumanthiram forms the Tenth Section.
Periya puranam gives the stories of 63 Saivite saints called Nayanmars (naayanmaars) including the story of Tirumular (muular).
Here are some pictures which illustrate his teachings or his similes:
திருத்தி வளர்த்ததோர் தேமாங் கனியை
அருத்தமென் றெண்ணி அறையில் புதைத்துப்
பொருத்தம் இலாத புளிமாங் கொம்பேறிக்
கருத்தறி யாதவர் காலற்ற வாறே. 2
Seek Not the Sour Tamarind: Sweet Mango is at Hand
The sweet, ripe mango, tended with loving care,
They bury deep, deeming it unripe still;
And up the gnarled tamarind they climb for the sour fruit,
Only to break their limbs–they whom the senses beguile.
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4. அளியொத்த பெண்பிள்ளை ஆனந்த சுந்தரி
புளியுறு புன்பழம் போலுள்ளே நோக்கித்
தெளியுறு வித்துச் சிவகதி காட்டி
ஒளியுற வைத்தென்னை உய்யவுண் டாளே. 20
Her Glance Purified My Heart
She is the Lady, compassion embodied
She is Bliss–Beauty (Ananda Sundari)
Unto tamarind fruit encased in cover hard
Is my wavering heart;
Into it She poured Her benignant glance
And made it pure;
She showed me the way to Siva-state
She made me radiant in Jnana
And redeemed me.
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புளிக்கண்ட வர்க்குப் புனலூறு மாபோல்
களிக்கும் திருக்கூத்துக் கண்டவர்க்கு எல்லாம்
துளிக்கும் அருட் கண்ணீர் சோர்நெஞ் சுருக்கும்
ஒளிக்குள்ஆ னந்தத்து அமுதூறும் உள்ளத்தே. 57
Rapturous Experience Flowing From Witnessing Holy Dance
At the sight of tamarind
Water in mouth wells up;
As unto it,
Are all those who witness the Holy Dance;
They shed tears of joy;
They melt in love of Lord;
In their hearts,
Ambrosial bliss of Divine Light wells up.
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RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA ON TAMARIND
“You cannot distinguish a devotee from a worldly person. That isn’t your fault. During the first burst of a storm, it is not possible to distinguish a tamarind tree from a mango tree.
“Before God-realization one cannot suddenly give up performance of rituals. How long, then, does one have to perform sandhya and such ritualistic worship? As long as tears do not flow and the hair does not stand on end at the sound of God’s name. If tears fill the eyes even once when saying ‘Om Rama,’ know for certain that your karmas are over. You will not have to perform sandhya and other rituals any more.
“The blossom falls off as soon as the fruit appears. Karma is the blossom, and love for God is the fruit. The daughter-in-law of the house can’t work much when she’s pregnant; her mother-in-law gradually frees her from work. During the last month she barely lets her work at all. When the infant is born, the mother only attends to it and not to any other work. The sandhya merges into Gayatri and then Gayatri into Om. Om then becomes merged in samadhi – as the sound of a bell ‘t-o-m.’ Following the trail of the sound ‘Om,’ the yogi becomes lost in the Supreme Brahman.[13] Sandhya and such karmas disappear in samadhi. In this way the duties of the jnani fall off.”
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Pilgrimage and Sri Ramakrishna – three classes of religious teachers
The pundit: “Sir, how far did you go on your pilgrimage?”
Sri Ramakrishna (smiling): “I saw a few places. Hazra went farther and higher; he went to Hrishikesh. (All laugh.) I didn’t go that far, or that high. Kites and vultures soar very high, but their eyes remain fixed on the charnel pits where carcasses of dead animals are thrown. (All laugh.) Do you know what I mean by charnel pits? ‘Lust and greed.’
“If you can cultivate love and devotion for God sitting here, what is the need to go on pilgrimage? When I went to Kashi, I saw that the trees were the same, the tamarind leaves were also the same.
“If you do not develop love for God at places of pilgrimage, your visit to those places has been of no use. Love for God alone is the essential thing, the only thing needed. Do you know what I mean by kites and vultures? Many people come here and they talk big and say, ‘We have performed many of the rites and duties enjoined by the holy books.’ But their minds remain attached to the world. They are busy with money, name and honour, comfort, and so on.’’
The pundit: “Yes, sir. Going on pilgrimage is like searching for diamonds and jewels while throwing away Vishnu’s own gem.”[20]
Sri Ramakrishna: “And you must also know that, though you may preach a thousand things, they will be of no use unless it is the right time. When going to bed, a child says to his mother, ‘Mother, please wake me up when I have to go to the bathroom.’ The mother replies, ‘Child, its pressure itself will wake you up. You don’t have to worry about that.’ (Laughter.)
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MASTER (to the devotees): “How strange’. It is like saying that a man has an acid stomach because he passed, in his coach, under a tamarind tree.” (All laugh.)
DOCTOR (with a smile): Let me tell you another. The captain of a ship had a bad headache. After consultation, the doctors on board had a blister applied to the side of the boat.” (All laugh.)
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“I used to tell Keshab now and then: ‘He whom you address as Brahma is none other than She whom I call Sakti, the Primal Energy. It is called Brahman in the Vedas when It transcends speech and thought and is without attributes and action. I call It Sakti, Adyasakti, and so forth, when I find It creating, preserving, and destroying the universe.’
“I said to Keshab: ‘It is extremely difficult to realize God while leading a worldly life. How can a typhoid patient be cured if he is kept in a room where tamarind, pickle, and jars of water are kept? Therefore one should go into solitude now and then to practise spiritual discipline. When the trunk of a tree becomes thick and strong, an elephant can be tied to it; but a young sapling is eaten by cattle.’ That is why Keshab would say in his lectures, “Live in the world after being strengthened in spiritual life.’
(To the devotees) “You see, Keshab was a great scholar. He lectured in English. Many people honoured him. Queen Victoria herself talked to him. But when Keshab came here he would be bare-bodied and bring some fruit, as one should when visiting a holy man. He was totally free from egotism.
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