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Saturday 30 June 2018

The Essence of Tamil Philosophy.

The Essence of Tamil Philosophy.



I want to write about the notion of philosophy in the Tamil circles.  I call it Tamil circles only because I am not sure how the situation is in the rest of India.  I have summarised the essence of it as below:



1. Philosophy, as an attempt of man to seek out Truth-Experiences ( MeyuNarvu) is the same as the practice of Hermeneutic Science which has its own Logic - the Hermeneutic Logic. The concern is NOT definitions of truth and seeking to justify it but rather that of accessing normally unavailable experiences which also turn out to be truth-experiences.  A collection of such truth-experiences and collective understanding that emerges is the Darsana, the Philosophy as such. The construction theories with an array of concepts, deriving various kinds of hypotheses and testing them with experimentation and so forth is ABSENT in this form of science. What we have is accessing the DEPTHS which are there and which agentively determine the shape of the observable. So in such sciences nothing that is NOT there even at the depths is allowed to influence thinking. The whole of thinking is guided only the REAL, some of which may be only at the depths.



2. Such a Darsana, is a metaphysical vision that sustains a WAY of Life, the Maarkkam or NeRi and hence also the political life. A  Darsana cannot help being political for it seeks to fashion and reformulate the whole of EXISTENCE. It also touches the home life as well as the social  for a Darsana is a basic VISION that serves to found every facet of human existence,  reformulate every human behavior.



3. Now it also turns out as Hermeneutic Sciences ,  all such darsanas are TEXTUAL in nature and in which they take the WORLD as a whole as a TEXT( or deny it). Thus all darsanas like Lokayata, Buddhism, Jainism, Vedanta and so forth are simply different darsnas but about the SAME object, the World. Each of theses darsanas  claim that it is the RIGHT ONE and the rest are false and so forth. So here emerges the CONFLICT of INTERPRETATIONS - each  Darsana is an interpretation of the same World but in conflict.



4. To resolve the conflicts different approaches are also taken. The Vedantic traditions fall upon the authority or PiramaNas of the Vedas and Vedanta texts, the Buddhists the Buddha Pitakas , the Jains the Jaina Agamas and so forth. It must be remembered that the Darsnas are ultimately INTERPRETIVE of the World-as-Text and hence something that needs to be validated on its own.



5. It is here that we have Saiva Siddhanta as a movement that has remained faithful to the initial and true sense of Darsana and which does NOT take recourse to the scriptures by way of establishing the validity of the Darsanas. They take recourse, however,  to DECONSTRUCTION as the most important philosophical activity and where the TRUTH is understood as that which cannot be deconstructed and thus put aside, i.e. placed as belonging to Parapakkam and not the Supakkam. Also only  Hermeneutic Logic serves as the RATIONAL Principle that guides the whole exercise ( for e.g. Civanjana Botam and Civanjnja Cittiyar and so forth).



6. I believe that in  this way the  Tamil Saivites have accomplished long ago what Husserl dreamt only recently  - that of making Philosophy a Rigorous Science.



7. Now there is another dimension to it  that is lacking totally in the West. Philosophical exercises as these are placed as Njanattil  Njanam , in Tattuva Pirakasam ( 14th cent)  i.e. ways of life  after Cariyal, Kiriyai, Yoga and so forth. The competence to enter into philosophical discussions has to be preceded by the PRACTICE of rituals Yoga asanas and  so forth and where  important INSIGHTS are gained in the first place. It is only armed with these metaphysical insights that a person can  enter the deconstructive exercises where every darsanas is taken, understood first as to what it is  really and later deconstructed, if possible.




ULLAGANAR,
( 2003 )

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Tuesday 26 June 2018

The major defect of modern science and an alternative to it.


Dr Sivakumar explains the major defect of modern science, whereby a living being with a soul is not differentiated from a non living object. Therefore modern science cannot fully address the existential struggles of living beings . He brings to light Agamic Science as an alternative, a science developed and perfected to great heights by the Tamils but has remained unknown to the world. This Agamic science recognises the existence of a living being and differentiates living beings from non living objects.

Generally in most Indological studies, the Tamils contribution hardly gets noticed, due to political reasons or by accident. Most of the studies are Sanskrit orientated and even if some Tamil contribution gets highlighted, the credit goes as Vedic and Sanskrit origin.


Agamis science, as we are developing now as a species of hermeneutic science, has been perfected by the Tamils since the days of Meykandar ( !3th century ).

Friday 22 June 2018

Tuesday 19 June 2018

Tamil language as a natural language



Part of Dr Sivakumar's talk . In this video, he explains how Tamil language evolved with nature as its base. He also explains the concept of root words in Tamil and also its flexibility.

Wednesday 13 June 2018

The word 'Ahankaaram' - Sanskrit or Tamil?



Part of talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia. He explains that the root words of 'Ahankaram' is Tamil, the roots of which can be traced back to Sumerian. Dr Sivakumar also explains that even the meaning of 'Ahankaram' is totally different between Sanskrit and Tamil.

Monday 11 June 2018

naturalness and unnaturalness in Agamic Science - Part 2



Talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia.

When the model of treating everything as a non living entity, not recognising the existence of the soul in modern science, there seems to be no respect for living beings. Therefore living beings are not appreciated and it lets the destruction of other living beings like plants and animals, with the exception of human beings, though only superficially.

Naturalness and unnaturalness in Agamic Science - Part 1


Talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia.

In this talk Dr Sivakumar talks about the major defect in so called modern science. Modern science only concerns a study about non living objects. And using this same notion, modern science applies the same model of studying non living objects for living objects, which is it's major defect.