Origin of OM / AUM in Sumeria, a Tamil Civilization

 In this video, the origin of the globally known Hindu symbol 'AUM' or simply 'OM' is traced to Sumeria.

Up till now the origin of AUM is traced to the Upanishad and other Vedic or Sanskrit texts.

For the first time, Sivakumar quotes a Sumerian text, Temple Hymn 31 where the the word 'OM' is mentioned. This text is more ancient than the Upanishad or any other Vedic / Sanskrit texts. He provides the meaning of the line which contains the word 'OM' which is clearly Tamil and can be understood even by ordinary people who knows elementary Tamil.

The discovery linking Sumerian as archaic Tamil is half a century of research work of Ullaganar and Sathasivam. This research finding stands on rock solid foundation where every aspect of Sumerian can be related to present day Tamil.

I quote below the line where the word AUM or OM.

5(400) Sumerian : [umbin]-se-ba amar su-ti-a Deciphered meaning by western Sumeriologist : ( Who snatches the calf with (his) [cla]ws ). Tamil : ஓம்பி-இன் இசைப அமர் சோதிய Romanised Tamil : Ombi-in isaiba amar sootiya

Meaning by Ullaganar: ( Who recits this mantra sound Om (Ombi-in-isai), lights up(sutiya) deathlessness (amar) Or : Those who recite the sound Om, (activates deathless Light in the body) and becomes radiant (amar su-ti-a).

From the above, we see that the meaning given by western Sumeriologist is inaccurate as they are do not know Tamil. Ullaganar who is a Tamil scholar as well as a Sumeriologist could see that the Sumerian writing is just plain Tamil. The recognizability of this sentence as Tamil is possible even with basic Tamil language proficiency as these words are still in use in Tamil.

This video should further strengthen our research finding that Sumerian is Tamil. It appears that SumeroTamils not only discovered the Logos Om but also the sadhana of Om-recitation for gaining the deepest metaphysical illuminations.

Our research also shows that Sumerians were from Kumari Nadu and due to the rising sea level, they migrated from Kumari Nadu to Sumeria.

And the myth that AUM or OM is Vedic and Sanskrit should come to an end and the Tamils should be acknowledged as the discoverers of this most important Hindu symbol!

Take note that by we claiming that Sumerian is Tamil doesn't mean that we support Aryan migration.

Is Murugan / Subramaniar worship Tamil or Aryan/Vedic and evidences of Murugan worship in Sumerian.

Sivakumar begins this video by posing the question on weather Lord Murugan / Subramaniar or any other name denoting Murugan is Tamil or Aryan/Vedic? This question is raging in the Tamil community and a source of confusion and there are a lot of so-called Tamil and Saivite scholars who add to this confusion, including politicians. Sivakumar explains that the origin of Lord Murugan worship can be seen in Sumeria which is a Tamil civilization, based on Professor Sathasivam and Ullaganar's research. Sivakumar shows evidences on the existence of Murugan worship in Sumeria which has not been widely published yet. Sivakumar says that Lord Murugan is not a Siddha or a human personality such as 'muppatan' as claimed by certain political leaders and he elaborates the danger of equating Lord Murugan to a human personality. He says that there are great forces at work in bringing down and de-grading Lord Murugan as Lord Murugan is the BACKBONE of the Tamil people and their religion. He says these are all the work of enemies of Tamil with their hidden agenda. Sivakumar concludes by saying that the Tamils should resist attempts to confuse and split the Tamils by forces claiming Murugan is not Tamil. It must be mentioned that Sumerians were not natives there. There are references that they migrated from Kumari Nadu.
 

The Icon Thinking of Punitavati - Part 4

 Why Siva is Golden in Body but Dark at the Throat?

Meaningful icon-thinking, an interpretive understanding of the metaphysical insights encrypted into a Muurttam begins only with the PLAY of BEING after letting an Imago-Dei overpower the soul of a person who is sufficiently ripe for such a possession. Then begins a PLAY that is essentially PEDAGOGIC, that of instructing directly the possessed soul by a variety of strategies or tantras.

Here we see that for Punitavati, the Muurttam, that of the Blue-throated Siva, is no more just a representational reality and installed as sculptures wrought in different media, installed in a temple and made an object reverential worship. She is well past this state of Sariyai and Kiriyai and even Yoga and have ascended to a stage of Njanam where she is possessed by the  LIVING Muurttams and that too to INSTRUCT her about the ESSENCE of BEING and by BEING Himself.

No more Vedas, Agamas and such other scriptures of words, no more gurus, rishis and such other human beings who pass as authorities in religious matters. She is directly experiencing a Muurttam form of BEING in a personal way and where there is an intimacy of LOVE that emboldens her to relate to BEING in a very personal way, as the closest friend, confidante etc.

But strangely enough there is an  INDIFFERENCE on the part of BEING as to her plights and pains and which makes her ponder at the MEANING of the DIVINE INDIFFERENCE. It is at this point the meaning of the FORM of SIVA where while His whole body  is resplendent, bright and red but the THROAT in contrast remains dark (and about which there are many puranic stories). Perhaps, she thinks, BEING can by design ABSENT Himself and through that show that as part of His PLAY, He can CONCEAL Himself and that Blue Throat signifies this aspect of divine Play!

More below.

4.

ளாஆனோம் அல்லல் அறிய முறையிட்டால்

கேளாத தென்கொலோ கேளாமை- நீளாகஞ்

செம்மை யானாகித் திருமிடறு மற்றொன்றாம்

எம்மையாட் கொண்ட இறை

(அ-ரை: திரு.வி.க)

கேளாமை - கேளாமைக்குக் காரணம். நீள் ஆகம் செம்மையான் ஆகி - நெடிய திருமேனி செந்நிறமுடையானாகி. திருமிடறு மற்று ஒன்று ஆம் -- திருமிடறு (கண்டம்) மற்றொறு (கரு) நிறமாயிருப்பதாகும்.; ஒன்று செந்நிறமாகவும் மற்றொன்று கருநிறமாகவும் இருப்பது காரணம் என்றவாறு. கருமை குற்றமுடையதாதலின் என்க

(உரை: உலகன்)

இவ்வாறு இனி மற்றொரு தேவனையோ மானிடனையோ தலைவனாக ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளாது, என் நெஞ்சைக் கவர்ந்த சிவபெருமானுக்கே ஆளானோம், அதனை அவனும் அறிவான் என்று காதலின் எனது அல்லல்களை அவன் அறிய பலவேறு வகையில் முறையிட்டால், என்னே அவன் ஓர் சிறிதும் கேளாதே இருக்கின்றானே! ஏன் இவ்வாறு கேளாது இருக்கின்றான், என்ன காரணமாக இருக்கமுடியும் என யான் சிந்திக்க அவனைப் பற்றிய ஓர் தெளிவு பிறக்கின்றது. தனது உடம்பெலாம் தெளிவின் செம்மை நிறத்ததாக  இருக்க, அவன் மிடறோ அதற்கு மாறுபடும் வண்ணம் கருமை நிறத்ததாக இஇருக்கின்றது. யாதையும் கண்டுகொள்ளாதும் கேட்காதும் இருப்பதைத் தரும் அந்த கருமைதான் இவன் கேளாமைக்குக் காரணம் போலும்!

 

4.

aaLaanoom allal aRiya muRaiyiddaal

keeLaata tenkoloo keeLaamai - niiLaakanj

cemmai yaanaakit tirumidaRu maRRonRaam

emmaiyaad koNda iRai

Meaning:

Having resolved that I shall be  subservient only to Siva and no other and believing that He knows this, I complained to him about my tribulations out of my immense LOVE for Him.  But alas ! He doesn't seem to listen and appears to be indifferent to my plights. What can be the reason? I inquired. Then it dawned that Siva whose vast body is red and brilliant, has a throat that is, in contrast, DARK. Perhaps He can , when He chooses to, be indifferent or turn a deaf ear to the pleadings of those who love Him because of this!

Notes:

In her struggles to come to terms with the fact that she has abandoned all love for the worldly things including being one with a man as her husband, and that she has only Siva to go to as the confidante, she pours out her heart in the believe that He would listen to her and do the necessary. But unfortunately this is NOT so. Despite her continuous complaints and pleadings nothing changes but in that INDIFFERENCE, indirectly disclosing to her a TRUTH about Himself.

The iconic representation of Siva with brilliant body but with DARK throat ( Niila KaNdan) comes to her mind and now she begins to UNDERSTAND the metaphysical knowledge encrypted into that image. BEING as SIVA is actively present but with the capacity to be INDIFFERENT as well  and it is this meaning of the icon that comes as a flash to her mind. This is one aspect of Tirotakam, drawing a curtain around Himself so that He is absent to the anma and which is perceived as  Siva is NOT listening or BEING is not there and so forth.

Even in ordinary life we see amidst parents and children, gurus and sisyas and even among friends. One complaints but the other chooses to ignore knowing perhaps there is no substance in the complaints and that in time they will subside on their own. Perhaps in the course such complaints and pleadings it dawns to them that their actions are misplaced and that there is NO reason to complaint at all.

But any way we see here that in the existential struggles of Punitavati with her LOVE for Siva, there is already UNKNOWN to her BEING disclosing to her in various ways and because of which the ICONS that she has been worshipping become ALIVE with NEW meanings, that she can INTERPRET them and begin to appreciate the CONCEALED or encrypted meanings in such iconic representations.

ULLAGANAR

( Editing and re-paragraphing by his student, Ari Marappan )

The Tamil Hermeneutics and Metaphysics - Part 25

 Sivayoga and Overcoming Sexual Morbidity

Saivism posses within itself a very deep analysis of human psychodynamics and in this, in some ways anticipating the important features of Freudian Psychoanalysis. 

It is not an accident that C.G Jung has subjected Yoga to an in-depth analysis along psychoanalytical lines in many of his writings. In the studies of Tamil Siddhas from Tirumoolar to recent times we also find very deep analysis of this and the identification of psychosis, neurosis and so forth and prescription of rituals and yoga practices by way of curing them and which constitutes the central impulse in Siddha medical system though only the herbal and pharmacological aspects are widely known.

One of the fundamental contributions coming from the Tamil Siddhas is the concept Naadi , which over and above the meaning of pulse beat also has the meaning that "which establishes naaddam", the seeking out something, desires that is stubborn. They classify them into Pingkalai, Idakali, Suzimunai and finally Guru Naadi. The word 'guru' , here has the meaning "large, enormous, foundational" and so forth. The Guru Naadi is the PULL unto BEING Himself and as constituted by ParaNatam and ParaBindu. The rest are constituted by Apara Natam (idakalai) Apara Bintu (pingkalai) and both together ( suzimunai)

When the nadies are constituted by the Apara Natam and Bintu, they establish inner pressures for worldly enjoyments especially the sexual in a wide sense of the word. When the psychic entity escapes these pulls and aligns itself with the founding Guru Naadi, it becomes essentially a mumuksu i.e. that which is concerned with attaining and enjoying Mukti. The Tamil Saivites call this Sivayoga and link it up with the visions of the Third Eye, the eye of transductive perceptions, vinjnjana kaadsi , as Arunandi would say.

It would appear that there is already an intrinsic PULL of all anmas towards BEING but only by a transmutation of the primordial sexuality into Bakthi, the transmutation of sexual love into divine love that being in the presence of BEING ( sanniti) that one can enjoy it genuinely. However sexual morbidity can arise on the way if the sexual is NOT enjoyed in the way it should be. And the right way appears to be as that under romantic and aesthetical and as constituted by Thirumal ( Vishnu ) and Brahma but more directly by Manmatan, the Hindu Cupid who has as his weapons (kaNai) Sugarcane, a soft bed, flower garden, breeze and love songs.

The Third Eye that every human being is capable of and Sivayoga, the discipline that keeps this eye open is said to be by Appar in this verse as that which will avoid the transformation of the sexual desires aroused by Manmatan into something morbid and hence destructive. The sexually morbid individuals may be, in addition to being psychotic also a killer, hence a dangerous kind of individual especially when he is also politically very powerful

142

kazai padu kaadu tenRal kuyil kuuval anjcu

kaNaiyoon aNaintu pukalum

mazaivadi vaNNan eNNi makavoonaividda

malaraana thodda matanan

ezilpodi ventu viiza imaiyoor kaNangkaL

eri enri iRainjci akalat

tazalipadu neRRi oRRai nayananj civanta

tazalvaNNan entai caraNee

Meaning:

Manmatan, the archetype of sexual desires has as his weapons : the sugar-cane that installs the desire for enjoying the pleasant, a bed suitable for the conjugal act, the garden that provides the mood, the breeze and pleasant music such as that of Kuyil that arouse sexual desires. When once Civa isolated Himself from Parvathy and concentrated as Makayogi in Kailash, there was a lack of happiness and enthusiasm to live among the living things all over the world. Seeing this Brahma and the Dark-hued Thirumal and Indra implored Manmatan to aim his weapons at Civa, arouse sexual desires in Him and make Him unite with Parvathy.

However when Manmatan attempted this, he and his weapons were singed to ashes by Civa when he opened His Third Eye, the Eye of Fire. ( Then Civa, on the pleading of Rati, the consort of Manmatan, restored life to him but only to be visible to Rati). The celestial beings realizing now that BEING can be FIRE ran way in fear pleading for grace. This BEING who appears with the Single Eye on the Forehead and in the form of FIRE, is my Father and recluse.

Commentary:

This mythical theme also well known, brings out another aspect of the Third Eye normally associated with BEING-as-Civa but not so far as as know, with Brahma or Thirumal (Vishnu). The close linkages this Eye has with the Form of Fire, BEING assumes and these forms in order to burn off sexual desires, the root cause of all desires is being brought out in this verse. And for obvious reasons: even tyranny and terrorism are products of desires probably twisted and misdirected forms of the sexual and hence once if this desires is eliminated from the interiority of the psyche, real freedom and humanity can be enjoyed and anma also rescued from becoming a tyrant.

The Third Eye is the metaphysical eye and when that eye alone is open we have BEING as Makayogi, BEING as Cattan (derived from' 'cat", the Absolute)) , BEING as totally withdrawn unto Himself. There is SELF-CLOSURE and because of which he becomes forgetful of Parvathy, which literally means the Woman of the World. The Manifest World becomes forgotten, to speak metaphorically here and hence the world made insipid and lacking in every motivational dynamics much to the disappointment of Vishnu, the BEING of the Manifest World, the Purusha. All the living creatures languish and and suffer without any interest in whatever.

It is realized now that it is sexual desire that is the ROOT CAUSE of it all and that all living things derive their motivation or energia from this desire. So the archetypes of the worldly pleasures Brahma, Vishnu, Indra and so forth, to restore this primordial impulses to act, implore Manmatan to aim his weapons at Civa as Makayogi but who gets burnt to ashes along with his weapons when HE opens the Third Eye, the Eye on the Forehead that always emits Fire of intense heat. This simply means that when the anma is imbued with the intense desire for metaphysical illuminations, the desire to unravel and become clear about the hidden mysteries of Existence and which are beyond the physical and available only in the metaphysical realms is or can be so consuming that all the worldly desires .including the sexual, the most primordial of all, can be burnt off and singed to ashes.

This myth discloses a hidden aspect of BEING, that He can assume forms that would kill even the very obstinate and difficult to overcome sexual desires; that man and woman can attain real freedom , the freedom from desires by the Grace of BEING when he bestows the vision of the Third Eye for the creatures. This also means rescuing the anmas from becoming tyrants of a sort because of twisted nature of the sexual libido, it becoming morbid and thereby immensely destructive.

Civayoga understood here as the discipline that is concerned with opening the Metaphysical Eye and seeing everything with that Eye appears to be the solution Appar offers to prevent the emergence of the morbid individuals, somewhat psychotic and tyrannical, individuals who would never hesitate to kill even innocents to achieve their own desires . Morbidity of the mind is perhaps a product of sexual libido twisted and corrupted for lack of proper channels of discharge which consists in enjoying it within LOVE, that weapons that Manmatan installs and that too with the blessings of Thirumal etc.

ULLAGANAR.

( Editing and re-paragraphing by his student, Ari Marappan )

The Tamil Hermeneutics and Metaphysics - Part 24

  False Asceticism and Human Destructiveness.

As I plough through the Tamil Bakthi poetry especially the Saivite, I begin to understand more and more the meaning of Bakthi. Admittedly this is NOT something specific to the Tamil mind and perhaps universal, showing itself in various forms. 

In the Third Millennium B.C. itself, the enormously philosophical Sirbiyam of  Enhudu Anna, a Sumerian priestess and the daughter of Sargon the Great is already a beautiful poetry in Bakthi. Somehow or rather this dimension of religious experience has been cultured and developed among the Dravidian folks right from the ancient times and which I suspect is related to the centrality of temple in the religious culture of the Tamils. This may be true of the whole of India as temples are found in every part of India and now even overseas where the Hindu people are taking roots.

This Patikam of Appar is peculiar in that he seeks an UNDERSTANDING of the genealogy of HATRED that underlies the birth of tyrants and terrorists even in the name of religion or perhaps especially in the name of religion. Hence it again shows the HERMENEUTICAL thrust with which comes Tamil Bakthi. We must note that Appar could have become a terrorist for being born a Saivite then became converted to Jainism and then when he returned to Saivism he was persecuted severely by the Jains and the Pallava Emperor of the times who was a patron of Jainism. So he could have become a terrorists of a kind , all the ingredients were there though he did not.

Added to this is that he had a very unhappy family life that drove him to asceticism ( note: valiteen manaivaazkkai: I suffered family life) but however he did NOT opt for violence though he became a crusader of a kind to bring back Saivism and along with it Tamil language itself. What appears to have prevented him from becoming the hater of mankind and thereby the desire to wipe out the whole of humanity that he would have hated so much is Bakthi, pointing out that Bakthi in another aspect of it, though can install asceticism but not hatred, the visvakrasam, hatred for the whole of humanity and false or misplaced asceticism.

In the following verse he analyses the role of the WOMEN in the genesis of hatred of the world and how the desire for Metaphysical illuminations, metaphorically described as the visions of Third Eye helps out in the maintenance of sanity and the recovery of humanity and thus Bakthi itself. He also seems to imply that the third eye must be functioning along with the normal two - the desire for sexual enjoyment and exultations in intellectual pursuits - for the maintenance of sanity among the religious, the potential tyrants

141

nalamali mangkai nangkai viLaiyaadiyoodi

nayanat talangkaL karamaa

ulakinai eezum muRRum iruNmuudamuuda

iruLoodu neRRik orukaN

alartara vanjcimaRRai nayangkaividdu

madavaaL iRainjca matipool

alartaru cootipoola alarvitta mukkaN

avanaam namakoor araNee

Meaning

The WOMAN, the source of all the good things, was amusing Civa with the form of a tantalizing and alluring beauty and immensely pleasing and good natured Angel. But while playing thus she inadvertently closed the two eyes with her hands, and the whole universe became engulfed in thick and growing DARKNESS so that there was NOTHING manifest as there to behold with the eyes. But at that point only the right and left eyes were closed but not the Third Eye, eye on the forehead. But noting this Darkness , the frightened WOMAN saw with the remaining Third Eye and implored Civa and at which point He restored the Left Eye of the Moon and Right Eye of the Sun ( Vintu and Natham respectively) and made her happy. This BEING with the THREE eyes has become our recluse

  

Commentary.

A very difficult mythical theme, something that is immensely puzzling specially in connection with the general theme of this Patikam, viz. the genealogy of monstrous irrationalities that underlie the emergence of the tyrannical in world history.

To make sense of this myth, we have to note that BEING does not have eyes in the ordinary human sense and also that Uma does NOT play to amuse BEING in the ordinary sense. So these mythic figures are prototypical and say something about the historical man and woman and hence stand for any man and woman just as the Hero and Heroine of the Sangam Poetry stands for the typical man and woman of all times. Thus we have to understand the meaning in terms of Hermeneutic Semiotics, the meaning communicated in the language of mythologies without ridiculing them as senseless and meaningless only because the meanings are not immediately obvious.

All human beings are endowed with THREE eyes, the left eye related to right hemisphere , the right eye related to left hemisphere and one in the forehead to the Deep Brain, the point where the brain stem meets the cerebellum etc., called the localized Citambaram or CiRRambalam by the Saivites. The Siddhas also explain that the right hemisphere of the brain is given over to Vintu and the left to Natham which respectively establish the inner pressures for sexual enjoyment and intellectual achievements. The third eye related as it is to Deep Brain, is concerned with metaphysical desires, that which underlies the birth of the ASCETIC in man ( and woman) and the attaining of Mukti.

The typical man is subjected to TWO different kinds of manipulations by the typical woman, the Play that arouses sexual desires and that which arouses interest in cognitive competencies. These are two fundamental DESIRES that sustain EXISTENCE but which can unfortunately be made UNAVAILABLE under certain circumstances. The Woman can close these eyes of a man and at which point DARKNESS engulfs. What does this mean?

The darkness here means NOT the absence of the world but rather psychological darkness , a total DISINTERESTEDNESS, a metaphorical darkness. The world even if is there, it is made supremely unappetizing and irrelevant and hence psychologically something inexistent. Hence there seems to be NO EXISTENCE as well.

But fortunately even at this point the Third Eye remains open for it appears to be an eye in man that a woman cannot close or shut down with her tantalizing PLAY and which means the pressure for metaphysical desires remains something in man beyond the reach of the sexually and otherwise alluring females. It remains, because of that, forever OPEN and hence that which gives meaning to existence but not the physical but the metaphysical.

Of course this means ASCETICISM, being closed to the worldly and being mindful only of the metaphysical. But why should this be frightening?

It is here that we see the relevance of this mythical theme to the general theme of the Patikam. For such an asceticism can not only generate a blindness to the world and its charms, but also make the person become DESTRUCTIVE towards it. He does NOT have EYES to see them and if it thrusts itself forcibly, will only provoke the desire to ANNIHILATE and turn it really into an inexistent.

Here lies another genealogical account of the tyrannical, the intense desire to wipe out the whole world, to make the whole universe desolate and nothing.

But nothing to fear. The woman learns her lesson and realizes the worldly eyes must NOT be closed and she should not even playfully close them. Once the sexual and intellectual desires are made ABSENT in the world, there is a possibility that TERRORISM would result. There will be the destruction of the world because of monstrously powerful instinct in that direction.

In order to avoid this and for sanity and balance to prevail in the world, the sexual and the intellectual that comes along with it, the right and left hemispherical functioning of the brain must go on.

ULLAGANAR

( editing and re-paragraphing by his student, Ari Marappan )

Inertia, Newton's law and Lord Nadaraja

 

n this video, Sivakumar explains how Newton's Law has been beautifully captured in the image of the dancing Lord Nadaraja. He explains how inertia is pictured in the dancing Nadaraja and introduces something known as 'sombal' in Tamil, which I have translated as 'negative psychological inertia'. It is a kind of feeling which stops us from moving forward, which according to Sivakumar is inherent in all living beings. It must be mentioned that Newton's Law only covers physical objects but the ancient Tamils discovered that inertia is not just for physical objects alone, but it also exist in living beings. The idea of inertia in living beings is unknown in modern physical science but the Tamils discovered it's existence in living beings since ancient times.

The Hidden Sciences behind Tamil Language

 

In this video, Sivakumar explains about the sciences found in the Tamil language, as per his discovery and also his associate, Ullaganar which spans over 45 years. Tamil is not just a communication tool but goes beyond that. The depth of this duo's discovery is something that has never been done by anyone else, to the best of my knowledge.

The Science Behind Tamil Phonemes

 

In this video, Sivakumar explains the science behind the origin of Tamil phonemes. The mode of investigation of the Tamils has been from the known ( the human body and it's existence ) to the unknown ( BEING ). In that sense, the Tamil phonemes have been derived from all the possible sounds that the human body can create, which is natural and also resonates with the human soul.

The Tamil Religion as defined by Tirumoolar

 

Talk by Sivakumar on what defines Tamil religion. Hinduism as it is known today is a huge umbrella under which exists a large number of belief systems. But the Tamil Hinduisme, known as Saiva Siddhanta, which we have termed 'agamism' holds a peculiar characteristic, whereby it is not a belief system as such but a complete TRUTH seeking science  a form of science which Ullaganar has identified as hermeneutic science as it is known in the west. 

Ullaganar is a well versed scholar, both of the east and west and after having studied deeply the hermeneutic science of the west and the sciences developed by the Tamils which is known as Saiva Siddhanta, has concluded that what is known as Saiva Siddhanta is actually hermeneutic science that the west is trying hard to make sense of as a form of science. 

The root of this science can be traced to the ancient Sumerians who according to Professor Sathasivam and Ullaganar are Tamils. 

In this video, Sivakumar, an associate of Ullaganar explains what defines Tamil religion, something which has become a topic of controversy and confusion among the Tamils. The Dravidian political parties brand themselves as atheists and claim that the Tamils right from the beginning have been atheists and the religion of Hinduisme is an Aryan religion and therefore not Tamil in origin. In this video, Sivakumar goes to the root of Tamil religion and explains the definition of the Tamil religion as defined by Tirumoolar.

Ari Marappan

The Tamil Hermeneutics and Metaphysics - Part 23

Fascism and Fear as its Solution.

Anyone who studies the metaphysical significance of Indian mythologies and Ithikasas in an objective manner will be immensely perturbed by the irrationalities that hold sway there. 

Ramayana is seen as a struggles between the Dravidians and Aryans and NOT as a Depth psychological studies of the battle of man against his own ugly side. This theme is now seen to have been prevalent as Lahamism in Sumerian times itself as a part of temple praxis concerned with the exorcist practices, a primitive kind of psychotherapy that is even currently prevalent. Ravana was not a Dravidian and Rama was not a Aryan in the racial sense but rather personifications of the brave and good and the evil in every person.

This distortion applies also to another myth, as it does to many others - that concerned with Takkan whose hatred for Civa is seen as the Aryan or Vedic hatred for Dravidian Saivism etc. and which is again well besides the point and thoroughly irrational.

The mythologies, though may be related to the historical but they are the Deep Structures of historical events and as such touch upon the transhistorical, the noumenal but through the phenomenal and the universal. The real mythologies that are spontaneous eruptions from the depths are in fact a language of the gods and as such contain within themselves deep truths that once we grasp will serve us to UNDERSTAND the historical just as dreams properly interpreted and understood allow a better grasp of what is happening to oneself.

In the hymns of Appar we have an articulation of these mythologies in their true significance and the following about the veeLvi of Takkan is an interesting one, related as it is to Fascism and disastrous consequences it has for world history. For Appar Takkan is a Fascist and whose fascism seems to be rooted in the discharge of the sexual libido in the wrong directions, into the hatred of the LOVE for humanity . For he gets immensely annoyed with his daughter Tadsaayani's LOVE for CIVA and thus shows himself as one AGAINST sexual love and hence also Bakthi which is the transmutation of sexual libido into the Divine.

This verse also contains an interesting meaning of veeLvi, the Tamil term for Yanjna (also SumeroTamil, ejen: fire festival)

However the most important point Appar seems to make here is that Fascism, which is another form of human irrationality that has taken grotesque forms and hence has become devilish, can only be combated with counter terror, the striking of FEAR into the heart of such tyrannical individuals. FEAR that ensues because of counter terrorism infinitely more FRIGHTENING than what they inflict seems to be the only counter measure that would make such Fascist individuals withdraw from the irrational outburst and become subdued.

Appar 140

uyar tavamikka Takkan uyar veeLvi tannil

aviyuNNa vanta imaiyoor

payamuRum eccan angki mathiyoonum uRRa

padikaNdu ninRu payamaay

ayanodu maalum engkaL aRiyaamaiyaati

kamiyenru iRainjci akalac

cayamuRu tanmaik kanda tazalvaNNan entai

kazalkandu koLkai kadanee

When his daughter Tatsaayani loved Civa deeply, out of intense anger Takkan, who did not approve of it , organized a massive VeLvi for insulting Civa. But Civa burst out as immense FIRE within that pit of fire and on seeing which, even the celestial beings like Indra, Soma and Agni who came to enjoy the sacrificial offerings, FEAR stricken, withdrew and went away. On seeing this FEAR of even the celestial beings, Brahma and Thirumaal, who were in support of that activity, realized their ignorance and submitting themselves to Civa, begged His calmness and mercy. This BEING who can vanquish even the mighty Devas and who always emerges victorious, the BEING of the Dance of Victory is the ONE that we all ought to UNDERSTAND

Commentary:

This is again another famous myth that the Nayanmars, in the thick of the social struggles to bring back Bakthi have sung in many places. They must have seen a MEANING in it that enabled them to understand the HISTORICAL happenings around and in which they were caught. A revolution was on the way and there was turbulence all around. The social decadence was being fought and though largely philosophical but the biographical sketches of Nayanmars indicate that there were bloody clashes and perhaps arson and terrorism. There must have been individuals tyrannical and out of immense arrogance suppressed by violence the burst of bakthi, a loving devotion to BEING.

Takkan hates LOVE unto Civa and hence is understood here as one who would NOT foster LOVE among the people and hence bakthi as such. For after all it is in the transmutation of human love into Divine that bakthi is rooted in. Takkan stands as one who would arrest the normal expression and development of the immensely powerful sexual libido represented here by the adamancy of Tatcayani.

The meaning of this myth as seen as Appar, who was one of the chief architect of this Bakthi revolution and also who has sang eloquently about the human love especially that of a woman towards a man , is what we should be after.

There are TWO important elements in this myth that we should note very carefully. One is the LOVE of Tatsaayani, his own daughter to CIVA and something he DISLIKED very much and which he opposed vehemently. The second is the INTENSE ANGER that the obstinacy of the LOVE for Civa that Tatsaayani expresses.

  

A normal father who UNDERSTANDS the psychodynamics of a female and who is not EGO intoxicated would consent to the marriage and hence will NOT do anything that would be an insult to the person she loves. However this is NOT the case with Takkan -- he simply cannot allow in the life a person under his control something BEYOND his own WILL. He becomes TYRANNICAL because of this unbending and unyielding EGO -- he wants everything within his reach also to function within his WILL at the resistance and opposition to which he becomes intensely angry

The massive VeLvi he organizes symbolically may mean the various wars and battles and other atrocities that he commits by way of subduing his daughter and making her forget Civa and thus emerge victorious in the expression of his own WILL. Perhaps he was ready to make the nation a pit of FIRE with arsons and terrorism everywhere just to pacify his own unbending and unyielding EGO.

The ordinary elemental forces in nature as well the Indra, Soma, Agni and so forth stand together with him in the sense that they become the WEAPONS that Takkan uses in his arsons, VeLvi. Indra stands here for grandiose ambitions, as the one who nurtures the DESIRE to become the KING not just of the world but also the celestial, the metaphysical realms. But as the VeLvi proceeds there emerges CIVA within that FIRE pit itself as the immense FLAME that strikes TERROR in the heart of Takkan as well as the celestial beings. They become FEAR stricken and thus subdued and humiliated at long last. FOR the FORM of FIRE that BEING assumes is not the ordinary elemental fire, it is FIRE within FIRE, that primordial fire, the uuzit tii, that would consume all including the elemental fire , the Agni along with all the others including the whole of the cosmos. Thus it is Uzit tii that can turn the whole of the COSMOS into a NOTHING, into that rimordial darkness again.

This Primordiality of the Destructiveness , the Mahaa Cangkaaram is that which is beyond the reach of Brahma, the archetype of scriptures and Vishnu, the Lord of Manifest World. The mind trapped within the scriptural disclosures and psychological including the depth psychological, the ARituyiL of Thirumal CANNOT grasp that the world of the COSMOS holds the possibility of being annihilated and resolved back into the primordial darkness. BEING stands always BEYOND the scriptural and the metaphysical, HE stands always as the SURPLUS, as something that cannot be understood within any way of life and hence even all the religions.

This myth also discloses a Fundamental TRUTH -- that the Whole World in which our existence is written is after all a GIFT, a blessing, an aruL , and hence something that we should NOT abuse out of unreasonable arrogance.

This myth also shows that FEAR and TREMBLING that such cosmic destruction BEING is capable of effecting is also a strategy, a Tantiram in the repertoire of BEING to subdue the excessively arrogant individuals.

ULLAGANAR

( editing and re-paragraphing by his student )

Taxonomy of Bloom and Tolkaapiyar - A Brief Comparision

In this video, probably for the first time in history, Sivakumar explains the pedagogic taxonomy of Tolkaapiyar, circ 6 th century BC and gives a brief comparison between Tolkaapiyar's taxonomy which has remained unknown even among Tamils of its existence and the taxonomy of Bloom which is known worldwide and widely used among the educationists all over the world.

According to Sivakumar, objectively speaking, the taxonomy of Tolkaapiyar is much more complete than that of Bloom.

Isn't it a mystery that a pedagogic taxonomy of such high standard has remained unknown even among the Tamils for such a long time? If not for Sivakumar's re-discovery of the existence of this taxonomy, it would have remained unknown until someone else rediscovers it.

The Tamils in particular should delve deeper into the discoveries of their forefathers and make a comparison between the discoveries of the west and the ancient Tamils, in particular with regards to hermeneutic science.  The academic culture that was the norm among the Tamils centuries ago, especially during the sangam era should be revived back.

The Tamils, in particular in Tamilnadu should spend more time in researching and understanding the ancient Tamil texts and not spend valuable time in idolizing the personalities of the cinema world and politicians.

The Icon Thinking of Punitavati - Part 3

The True Devotion is Always to Siva and Nobody else.

The icons or archetypes or imago-dei or simply the Muurttams, to use the Tamil term and which means the emergence of ( Tamil:.muu) the BEING in some definite form, appears to be MAGICAL in some ways. They, not only emerge from the depths into consciousness but also possess the soul just as the lower shamanistic trances. The only difference appears to be that in this higher kind of possession the person is AWARE of being possessed and becomes also quite willing to be thus possessed. The Muurttam becomes the self itself but without obliterating the self-consciousness, and in this it is unlike the trans states. 

And this makes the self possessed totally subservient to the Murttam that possesses

BEING-as-SIVA and so forth. This brings along also a transmutation, a metamophoses of the person so that he/she is no more the ordinary person hungering after worldly pleasures but  rather the spiritual. The pattern of life and motivational dynamics underlying it changes so that a NEW RESOLVE on how to live comes to prevail. 

There is a Vairakkyam, a firm resolution to LOVE BEING and nothing or no one else. There is no Virakti, a meaninglessness that leads to suicidal tendencies but rather a new mental firmness and certitude arising from the living presence of BEING as the possessor of one’s soul itself. There is unmediated immediacy that makes philosophical inquiries quite unnecessary. When BEING is enjoyed as the living presence in one own's self, philosophical disputations as the reality or falsity of BEING and the Murttams in which He shows Himself become quire irrelevant. 

As we shall see in  the following verses, such a possession and casting existence itself as being totally subservient to BEING-as-SIVA and so forth is actually a precondition to disclose the truths of BEING directly to the possessed making the scriptures themselves quite unnecessary. 

3. 

அவர்க்கே எழுபிறப்பும் ஆளாவோம் என்றும்

அவர்க்கே நாம் அன்பாவதல்லால் - பவர்சடைமேல்

பாகாப் போழ் சூடும் அவர்க்கல்லால் மற்றொருவருக்கு

ஆகாப்போம் எஞ்ஞான்றும் ஆள்

(அ-ரை திரு வி.க) 

பவர்சடை -- நெருங்குதலையுடைய சடை. பாகாப் போழ் -- பாதியல்லாத பிளவை; அதாவது இஇளம்பிறைச் சந்திரனை 

(உரை-உலகன்) 

தவறாக ஓர் மானிடனுக்கு ஆளாகி அல்லப்பட்டு அதனின்று நீங்கியபின் இஇனி, எம் பெருமானுக்கே இஇனி வரக்கூடிய எல்லா பிறப்பிலும் ஆளாவோம். அதுவும் எப்படியென்றால், எதனையும் எதிர்பார்த்து அல்லாது தூய அன்பின் அவர்க்கே ஆளாவோம் கண்டாய். மிகவுறுதியான என்றும் மாறாத் திறத்தின் இஇந்த அன்பின் காரணமாக, அடர்ந்த சடைமேல் அழகிய இஇளம்பிறை சூடியவாறு தானே எல்லா இஇன்பங்களின் மூலம் என்று உணர்த்தியவாறு இஇருக்கும் அவர்க்கு அல்லால், இஇனி நிச்சயமாக வேறு எவர்க்கும் எஞ்ஞான்றும் ஆளா¡கமாட்டோம், இஇது உறுதி

3. 

avarkkee ezupiRappum aaLaavoom enRum

avarkkee  naam anbaavathallaal - pavarsadaimeel

paakapooz cuudum avarkkallaal maRRoruvarukku

aakaappoom enjnjaanRum aaL 

Meaning: 

Having become thoroughly disenchanted with life with a man, I am determined to be in service only to BEING (Siva) in future in this birth as well in all the births to come. And I shall be bonded to Him not because of some expectations but out of Pure, Deep and Abiding LOVE unto Him. So let it be known that other than for this BEING who discloses Himself as Siva who wears the crescent moon on his thick hair, thus symbolizing that He is the source of all happiness, I shall never be subservient to anybody else 

Notes:

Clearly this is  Punitavati telling herself about a new resolution she has made whereby after a heroic struggle with earthly desires of an ordinary  woman, she comes to a decision that in future she shall be subservient only to Siva and nobody else. This actually is clearing herself of some doubts and tearing herself away from the pulls of the flesh because of which she was tormented as her marriage broke down or made to break down. 

With the sexual libido desiccated , this resolution of herself that she will be subservient only to Siva and that too out of Pure Love that expects nothing in return as rewards as is the case with other human relationships, shows also the transformation of the Kundalini, the sexual libido into seeking union with BEING and hence Bakti. She finds fulfillment with her LOVE for BEING and whom is seen also as the source of happiness in being seen as the wearer of Crescent Moon on the thick tuft. 

ULLAGANAR

( editing and re-paragraphing by his student )

The TRUTH seeking culture of the Tamils.

In this video, Sivakumar explains how the TRUTH seeking culture of the Tamils has been in existence and recorded since the Sangam age with its beginnings in Sumeria. He explains how the beginning of modern day practice of 'viva' for masters and PhD candidates today can be found during the sangam age. The recorded history of viva in the Tamil culture can be traced during the presentation of 'Tolkaapiyam' by Tolkaapiyar dated around 6 th century BC which could be the first recorded viva in the whole of human history. During sangam age days, 'viva' sessions did not end in an hour or two with only a few selected experts in the particular field asking questions but goes on for a few days with an open concept. There used to be 'open viva session' presentations in the attendance of scholars, where any scholar who is interested in the subject are free to attend and ask any question in relation to the subject that is presented. In addition to this presentation to scholars, there will be another presentation where the public will be allowed to ask questions to the presenter. It was such a thorough session, where the culture was only 'AXIOMATIC TRUTHS' are accepted. Anything else is rejected.

The Magnificent 'Civanyaana Botham' of Meykandar - The ultimate text of hermeneutic science.

Sivakumar talks about Meykandar ( 13 th century ) and his 'Cinanyaana Botham'. He explains why this text, written with only 624 Tamil alphabets is the ultimate text in hermeneutic science. It must be mentioned that the hermeneutic essence of the science developed by the Tamils since Sumerian times has long been forgotten after Meykandar until its rediscovery by Ullaganar, a lecturer of University Science Malaysia in the 1990's.

Until today the western world is still unsure how hermeneutics can be a science. Even Heidegger, Gadamer and other western hermeneutic scientists are uncertain of this even now. Meykandar, who wrote this treatise in the 13 th century itself explains the logic of hermeneutic science in this text. For the full video please subscribe to Sivakumar Ramakrishnan’s channel. You can also join my blog 'Ullaganar' for more articles on the sciences developed by the Tamils.

The Forgotten Meykandar

Sivakumar who himself is a great scholar of immense knowledge and well versed both of the east and west, explains why Meykandar ( 13 th CE ) is the greatest hermeneutic scientist the world has ever seen. In this video, he explains the methodology of Meykandar and how his magnificent 'Civanyaana Botham' is a text which is comparable to none. Sivakumar goes further and explains how Meykandar has been forgotten by the Tamils and only recently his methodology has been fully understood and recovered in the 1990’s by Ullaganar of University Science Malaysia. Ullaganar was an associate of Sivakumar. The Tamils in particular should delve deep into the ancient sciences of their forefathers and bring them out so that the world benefits from them.

The Meta Meta-Text of Hermeneutic Science called 'Civanyaana Botham' by Meykandar

In this video, Sivakumar talks about the one and only text written by Meykandar, called 'Civanyaana Botham' in the 13th century. According to Sivakumar, this text is the complete text in hermeneutic science, which explains why and how hermeneutic science is a science, ie the logics of hermeneutic science. Until now, the western hermeneutic scientists are still grappling to understand how hermeneutics can be a science, even Heidegger. Meykandar, in his magnificent 'Civanyaana Botham' explains how hermeneutics is a science. This is the science that the Tamils excelled right from ancient times, the beginnings of which can be traced to the Sumerians, who were Tamils.

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