Civanjana Citiyar, a massiva treatisewritten in Tamil by AruNandi, the foremost student of Meykandar, is the most comprehensive philosophical treatise ever written in India.
It expresses the rationality and the openness to TRUTH that has been the characteristic of the Tamils from ancient times. For what Arunandi accomplishes in this book is a comprehensive UNDERSTANDING of ALL the philosophical thoughts current in his time and after a penetrating inquiry into all of them establishing the TRUTH as against these systems of thought.
And in this he exercises what I call "disconstruction", taking a school of thought , understanding it as it is and then disconstructing the system by pointing out the inadequacies in order to allow another system of thought less inadequate compared to that which is decontructed to emerge and hold the stage only to be deconstructed again.
This process continues till a point is reached where a system of thought emerges where it is NOT further deconstructible and hence understood as the Siddhanta, the irrefutable.
DR K Loganathan Krishnan @ Ullaganar
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