Sexuality and Time Consciousness and Transcending Both
While Tirumular speaks of becoming FREE of time consciousness in many places, perhaps the verse below is the most explicit of all.
We must recall that Saiva Siddhanta stands as a metaphysical system even with deeper reaches than of most of the Western metaphysical systems only because of this.
It has an explanation of how and why there is Temporality or Intentional Time as part of human understanding and because of which the creatures also measure out world time using various kinds of repetitive movements in the world. This competency for Time Measurements and which is the same as Intentional Time is ultimately traced to the presence of Apara Bindu in the soul and which installs various kinds of intentionalities but as the Deep Structure of which remains the Fundamental Intentionality, that which is established by Para Bindu or ParaSakti Herself, called here the Kaarikai, the Beautiful and Black Woman.
We must recall here that such a notion of Dissolution of Temporality and with that the very competency to measure out time and live without time consciousness still remains beyond the reach of Western philosophers. Taking off from Hume, Kant said that Space and Time are Apriori, categories of the mind and with that dismissing the fundamental question of metaphysics: How to become Pure and Absolutely Free of any historicity (or samsara)? Unable to account for the presence of the notions Time and Directed Space as inalienable categories of understanding, he had the audacity to declare that anything that claims to be free of these categories should be assigned to Transcendental Imagination, a kind of mental functioning beyond the scientific.
Now Heidegger records an improvement in linking Time with Being and that there is Projective Thinking, the going beyond itself and into the future and thus ahead of itself and moving unto itself by itself. Here too while Heidegger rightly connects Temporality (the KuRippuk Kalaam - the Intentional Time of Tolkaappiyar) he fails to push further and unravel the Deep Structure as Tirumular does in this verse and locate Timelessness as an existential possibility.
The projective mind is the AparaBindu Mind, that which operates with various kinds of intentionalities but which has as its Deep Structure the Para Bindu, the ParaSakti and which installs the Fundamental Intentionality, existence as that for enjoying Moksa.
The intentionalities remain basically tied to the sexual desires and only a person who transmutes this into Universal Love and rises above it, would also become of Free of Time. He would then understand the Njanam, the Absolute Understanding that would disclose everything as what in itself is, the Ding an Sic of Kant. At this point there is no ANNIYAM, as MeykaNdar would say - an otherness for the very subjective-objective distinctions are overcome.
31.
1954.
காலங் கடந்தவன் காண் விந்து செற்றவன்
காலங் கடந்து அழிந்தான் விந்து செற்றவன்
காலங்களின் விந்து செற்றுற்ற காரிகை
காலின்கண் வந்த கலப்பு அறியாரே
உரை:
குறிப்புக் காலம் சுட்டுக்காலம் எனவரும் இருவகை காலவுணர்வுகளில் , மூலத்தவாகிய குறிப்புக்கால உணர்வினைக் கடந்து தூய்தாகியவன் வேட்கைகளின் மூலமாகிய விந்துவின் ஆட்சியை போரிட்டு வென்றவன் ஆகும் . இவ்வாறு காலவுனர்வினைக் கடந்து தனது அசத்தான இயல்பினை அழித்து சத்தாக நிலவும் இயல்பினைப் பெற்றவன் இந்த அபரவிந்து செற்றவன் ஆகும். இவ்வாறு காலவுணர்வினில் படுத்தும் அபரவிந்துவை செற்று மேலோங்கி நிற்கும் குண்டலினியாகிய காரிகை, பிராணவாயுவில் கலந்து யாண்டும் நிற்பதை சிவயோகிகளைத் தவிர்த்த சாதாரண மக்கள் அறியமாட்டர்கள்.
31.
1954.
kaalaG kadantavan kaaN Vintu ceRRavan
kaalaG kadantu azintaan Vintu ceRRavan
kaalaGkaLin Vintu ceRRuRRa kaarikai
kaalinkaN vanta kalappu aRiyaaree
Meaning:
Time consciousness exists as World Time and Intentional Time (or temporality) of which Temporality is more primordial. The one who wins over the Apara Bindu that installs the sexual desires (and hence the desire for immortality) in fact wins over and becomes FREE of this temporality and hence Time consciousness itself. Such a person is also one who has destroyed his acat-self and with that has become the PURE cat-self. Now except for the Civayogies, nobody is aware that the Pure KuNdalini that emerges on winning over the AparaBindu that throws one into Temporality, is already there in the breathing processes itself as its essential dynamics.
Comments:
There are many places where Tirumular speaks of transcending TIME consciousness itself and with that the anma becoming PURE and FREE. Temporality is INTENTIONAL time or more specifically, the time consciousness installed by what can be called Fundamental Intentionality and which is attainment of Moksa. There is a Power or form of ENERGY, called here the Kaarikai, the Woman or ParaSakti, that remains part of the breathing processes and hence in all creatures and working in them unknown to them taking them towards Moksa. Thus the meaning of breathing and hence living is for attaining Moksa and which carries the implication that on attaining it, the breathing will also cease and the creature will die the Final Death, never to assume again a physical body which has to sustain itself with breathing and so forth
But how to release this form KuNdalini in the psychic interiority?
Tirumular uses the phrase ‘Vintu ceRRal” and by which he means overcoming the unconscious impulsions installed by Apara Bindu and enjoying the presence of Pure Bindu and which shows itself as Supreme Inner Radiance, the Para Sakti, the Pure Jyoti, the u dalla-e-a of En Hudu Anna (c. 2200 BC). When anyone overcomes the desires for immortality - to live forever with a continuous and unbroken line of progeny and hence endless species reproduction, he would also destroy his Acat-Self and become the absolutely pure Cat-Self who would seek only Moksa and nothing else.
Loganathan @ Ullaganar
( editing and re-paragraphing by his student )
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