Why Tamil Hermeneutic Logic is not in agreement with Modern Causality logic - A Summary

Anbalagan provides a summary on the 2 parts talk by Dr Sivakumar.

Why Tamil Hermeneutic Logic is not in agreement with Modern Causality logic - Part 2

Talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia, Penang

Why Tamil Hermeneutic Logic is not in agreement with Modern Causality logic - Part 1

Talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia, Penang

Decoding Tholkapiyar Action Theory in Agamic Perspective - A Summary

Anbalagan gives a summary of the 3 parts talk on the above topic by Dr Sivakumar.

Decoding Tholkapiyar Action Theory in Agamic Perspective - Part 3

Talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia, Penang

Decoding Tholkapiyar Action Theory in Agamic Perspective - Part 2

Talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia, Penang

Decoding Tholkapiyar Action Theory in Agamic Perspective - Part 1

Talk by Dr Sivakumar, University Science Malaysia, Penang

The origins of Tamil classical music by Dr Veerapandian - Part 2

The origins of Tamil classical music by Dr Veerapandian - Part 1

The Tamil Hermeneutics and Metaphysics - Part 14

Being with BEING. 



In my hermeneutic explorations of the metaphysical dimensions of my own self , an odyssey of a sort, an important milestone is my understanding and formulation : 

Hence I am moved to say : I exist, therefore BEING is. (Tamil:  naan vaazkinReen, athanaal iRaivan irukkinRaan) 

Hence with this accomplishment I notice that I become the TWICE born, the true Brahmanah and NOT the brahmanah who has stolen this credit just by virtue of being the scion of someone who has accomplished this in his gotra deep in the past, if at all, but now the only credit he has is just being born in that lineage but without the necessary disconstructive achievements that would put him in the vision of BEING. Such a person fools himself and fools the world, he has only the external trappings of a Brahmanah but not the inner substance.

If he has it, he wouldn't call himself a Brahmanah anyway. In the face of that Vision it becomes supremely IRRELEVANT.

But among the false elite group, I who have become the genuinely twice born and hence the true Brahmanah WILL NOT be recognised as such! My birth certificate would not qualify me for that!

But however it does not worry me, I just laugh at their folly, the miserable games they play and the twistings and turnings they give to history just to reinforce their own ego for they LACK the genuine metaphysical achievements that would provide an inner satiation that would not force them to seek out such vacuous enjoyments, the pleasures from the mithiyak njanam! From virtual realities!


But I have a problem : this vision that BEING is, that emerges on seeing the world as TEXT is so so slippery, so so difficult to retain and BE in it, immerse myself in it, become an aazvaar - one who dips in it and merges self with BEING. The practical problems in life -- the bills I have to pay, the needs of children that I have to attend, the funeral of a close relative, the wedding of my friends daughter, wife's demand for this kind of expensive jewellery, a new model of a car to replace the old and thousands and thousands of such demands DISRUPT that vision and make my life meaningless and empty. The vision of the World as TEXT and seeing even in a vague manner BEING there , now I realise, provides me a peace of mind that I cannot get elsewhere, it becomes a SANCTUARY of a peculiar sort, that serves to accomplish the "citta virutti nirootha" : it pulls me back away from the mundane, the naive natural , from the sensorial physical and grounds me in the metaphysical. 


So I do a number of things to RECOVER that vision -- recover only because it is ALREADY in my mind but now put aside and hence in a way lost. To recover this I indulge in a certain kind of PRAXIS, the Sariyai -- that of listening to the sacred hymns, the recital of mantras, the Buddhists chants from a Chinese temple, the Theevaram songs sung with the appropriate melodies and what not. I put away my research interests and study some scriptures that are productions of people who enjoyed this vision. I find that the hymns of Appar, Sambantar, Sundarar and so forth move me tremendously and all because I UNDERSTAND what they are trying to say, I can transpose myself into their state of Being and through that recover also my lost vision.


But I find that even this is very demanding - intellectually. It is NOT always possible for me to reflect penetratingly into the subtle, nuances, innuendos, implicatures and the various other semantic and semi-logical birds that break through the linguistic cage.


So I trod down to the TEMPLE nearby, a CONCRETE TEXT, that which exhibits BEING in so many plastic forms, all extremely symbolic. The clangs of the bells, the aromas of the flowers, the recital of the mantras, the so many colourful out-of-the-world mythical figures and what not, WORK on me , on my UNCONSCIOUS and driving away the mundane desires, install the divine and hence transpose my Being into the metaphysical ground.


Each archetypal presence is NOT a different God but the SAME BEING presenting himself in so many different ways.


I feel the same even when I sit silently in a vast mosque that encloses Pure Space , as the Sitambaram , as I did in a famous Mosque in Lahore.


When an irresponsible person tells me that I am a non-believer because I worship the deities in the temple, that what I worship are Satanic forces , I again laugh at his folly


I may laugh at it away , but I notice that there others who become VIOLENT in being told as such and accused of being a non-believer.


But the phenomena is the same as that which happens when a miserable caste elite claims the dignities of the twice born solely by virtue of the fact that he happens to be a scion of someone who might have accomplished this long long ago in his gotra (if at all)


And when such arrogant elites and other high caste elites in their metaphysical VACUITY deny even ACCESS to the temple to me so that I can regenerate that vision of BEING that has slipped out, and all because I am a Dalit, then I protest against the whole society very vehemently.


I may chose to build my own temple away from the control of these miserable high caste idiots.


I may become a MARXIST just to demand equal rights for all. I may even convert to another religion just as a way of registering my protest in the most ostentatious manner. I may even become a Naxalite and just simply exterminate these venomous serpents of society who deny the rights that are naturally mine.


But fortunately for me, no one has ever denied access to the temple, to the study of whatever scriptures I want . So I continue as a scholar but firm on OBJECTIVITY for the simple reason that it makes one feel PURE, and happy. This objectivity in research, the desire to be in TRUTH and NOT in fabricated virtual worlds, the various kinds of mythiyak njanam seems to be a GROUND of happiness itself. 


ULLAGANAR

What is Agamic Science?

What is Agamic Science?

‘SCIENCE’ has developed so much since the days when man began to ask questions to understand the world and universe that we live in. Science seems to be able to answer in a logical and scientific way, many of man’s inquisitiveness. Questions like does the earth go around sun or the sun goes around the earth, why does the tree grow towards the sunlight and the root towards water? The major advances that science has made over the years has answered practically almost every question that arose in the inquisitive human mind. These major advances have definitely made life better. Not to forget the cyberworld that has so much of influence on us. Human life has improved so much with the advancement in science. These advances cannot be denied.

One criteria for anything to be investigated in this science, which I call ‘modern science’ is that, anything that needs to be investigated must to be quantifiable and measurable. Anything that does not fall in this domain of the ‘quantifiable’ and ‘measurable’ is considered as not in the domain of this science. Fields like philosophy and religion are not even taken into investigation in this modern science due to its nature of non-quantifiable. Due to this model, this modern science has practically negated the existence of ‘soul’ in a living being because the existence of the ‘soul’ as far as modern science is concerned does not exist because it is non quantifiable. Living beings are not differentiated from a non-living things. Living being and not-living things are all grouped together. By doing this, the same methodology of researching a non-living thing is used to research a living being. For example if a person is suffering from a mental disease, using modern science, the chemical responsible for this mental disease will be identified and treatment will be to correct this chemical imbalance. Modern science does not go beyond that. The idea is, there is a disorder, therefore there must be a physical cause to it and the whole science will be put to identify this physical cause, using the most sophisticated machines and instruments. What this modern science fails to see is that, there must be a reason why this chemical happened in the first place. Modern science fails to go beyond this physical.

‘Agamic science’, though the term was introduced only in the late 20^th century by Ullaganar and his associate, Sivakumar,  is an ancient science, with its roots going back to the dawn of human civilization. This science was developed to great heights by the Tamils, with its beginnings in Sumeria, who according to research by Ullaganar were of Tamil origin. This science which goes by the name of ‘Saiva Siddhantha’ is being re-fashioned here as ‘Agamic Science’, with some new developments of our own. In this science, living beings are distinctly differentiated from non-living things. The core of investigation is the ‘UYIR’, in Tamil, which means the soul. The Tamil word ‘agamam’, literally meaning ‘becoming’, ‘beingness’, explains our human beingness and the meaning of our existence. It is not a philosophy as such or even a new religion, but a science, not in the sense of modern science, but a science in the hermeneutic sense. In this science, we don’t have any authoritative text, but we take nature and the universe as the most authoritative text. Nature is the best teacher and when we get connected to nature, nature itself will guide us through our existential struggles. Therefore, we can define “Agamic Science’ as a science of beingness, science of investigating our existence.

This science was developed to great heights by the Tamils, the culmination of it was by Meykandar, the greatest hermeneutic scientist the world has ever seen, who lived in the 13^th century. His magnificent ‘Civanyaana Botham’ written by him in the Tamil language, stands as the most profound book in metaphysics, a parallel not to be found anywhere else in the world, in any other language. It is a pity that a treatise of such greatness has gone unnoticed until recent times, revived only recently by Ullaganar who is a great scholar himself.

This science got to be revived. But why? The reason is quite straight forward. Due to the domination of the ‘modern science’ which is basically physical science, the human aspect has been neglected, ignored and destroyed. Humans are compared to a non-living object. And whatever investigated must be quantifiable and measurable. Due to this criteria, there are a lot of fields that has been totally ignored and rubbished because these fields are beyond the scope of modern science investigations. These fields are important for mankind to understand the meaning of our existence. One good example is dream analysis. Dream analysis, which is being practiced since the dawn of civilization, is never in the mainstream science. And modern science does not have a proper explanation on why we dream in the first place, let alone the meanings that dream convey. This is just an example. There are many human sciences that are beyond the scope of modern physical science, but important to understand humans better.

Agamic science does not negate these human aspects. It is more conclusive than modern science. While it does not deny that modern, physical science is a proper science for investigating non-living things or objects, this same science is not a science proper to answer the many existential struggles that living beings go through in their daily lives.

We believe that Agamic Science can answer the many questions unattended by the modern, physical science. It must be mentioned here that the Tamils have developed agamic science to great extent that it is a complete science by itself, encompassing both living beings and non-living things. We believe the world until today has failed to see this science, Agamic science.

We want to revive Agamic Science for the betterment of mankind and the world. The world must benefit from the wisdom of the ancient Tamils.

Ari Marappan