Sumerian 'unu-uru' and Tamil 'unnu uru' (urai)

 Sumerian is Tamil.

Sumerian 'unu-uru' and Tamil  'unnu uru' (urai) 

One of the most remarkable lines in the whole hymn is the following: 

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Sumerian : unu-uru du-ge sa-du ( . . , ‘attaining the utterance’) 

Tamil : unnu uru tuukkee saattu ( A place of deep meditations on speech where verses are recited) 

உன்னு உரு தூக்கே சாத்து

unu-uru : Ta. unnu uru; Ta. unnu : to reflect deeply Ta. uru, urai: speech, uttrances

Ullaganar

5th of April 2014.

Note : The word 'uru' is still in use today in Tamil. Listen to kantha sasthi kavasam, where this word is used, where ' uru ' means uttering mantras repeatedly, which can be 16 uru, or 108 or more. This practice of saying 'uru' is to invoke the God. For example to invoke Vinayagar, we got to say uru for vinayagar. As we practise this method, the 'field' of vinayagar will form around us. ( field is called pulam in Tamil. It's like the magnetic field in physical science ).  As this practice of uru is practised continuously over a period of time, this vinayagar pulam will become stronger and stronger and the prayers answered. 

It is interesting to note that the earliest record of this 'pulam theory' or 'field theory' is in Tolkaapiyam, which is dated to be around 6th  BC. To the best of our knowledge, this is the earliest recorded information on this field theory in the history of mankind. Tolkaapiyam did not record this as a passing remark but went into detail to explain the grammar of this field thoery. 

It seems that, the practice of saying 'uru' has been in use since Sumerian times and till today in the Tamil culture. This is another evidence on why we are claiming that Sumerian is Tamil.

Note by Ari Marappan.

The Tamil Hermeneutics and Metaphysics - Part 30

 On Disconstructing Marxism

Marxism, if I am not mistaken arose through despiritualising the essentially spiritual metaphysics of Hegel. 

His dialectics of thesis antithesis and synthesis was replaced with the dialectics of material forces with its consequent result of looking at history in terms of class wars, bourgeois vs the proletariat. 

The spiritual oneness of mankind was also reunderstood in terms of egalitarian principles and that have become the main aspect of their philosophy that has been immensely appealing throughout the world. And within the background of the caste-promoting Brahmanism, it will continue to be attractive as there is something deeply true and perhaps also deeply spiritual about it. It stands for the equality of mankind in some sense mostly economic and political.

But should spiritual foundation of existence be beyond the rational mind? I don't think so. Once we look at EXISTENCE and analyze it along the lines of Hermeneutic Science and as an exercise in which we GAIN an understanding of existence with INTERPRETING what is available there and this without quoting the scriptures the rishies, acharyas and so forth, we can secure the essential spirituality of existence.

The clue is provided by the following verses of Arunandi from his massive Civanjana Cittiyaar.

He notes the element of LOVE between a man and a woman is essentially spiritual and in this he is helped immensely by the detailed and empirical analysis of LOVE life of Tolkaapiyar and also the Kaamatup Paal of Tiruvalluvar and a host of other such texts in ancient Tamil.

In this there is an interesting theory of evolution which should be termed Disclosive- Evolution as distinct from the Adaptive-Evolution or Emergent-Evolution of the West. The Disclosive Evolution notes that there is a kind of cosmic dynamics where the hidden and concealed, those that lurk in the depths surface to the fore and become the phenomenal. Like the famous box of the Chinese, as you take out one box there is another in it, and another in that and so forth.

The dynamics of LOVE life which is phenomenal and universal, at least among the human beings, has as its Deepest Structure, not the mechanisms of physical, biological, sexual, psychological and so forth but the the spiritual -- BEING differentiating into the MALE and FEMALE and maintaining LOVE as that which binds them. There is LOVE in the world, as the phenomenal presence at least among the human beings only because at the deepest level, there is the WOMAN and MAN in LOVE with each other; the human love life is the Dance of Civa-Sakthi in union with the Civa tatvas - Natham and Bindu.

Perhaps in the disconstruction of the Marxism and the dry materialistic secularism these views of Arunandi, his Disclosive Evolution may be of some use, I think.

46

kaaraNam avaiyenRatu ennai
kadaati pool nikaz kaariyam
neer aNaintu camaintu ninRidum
enpatum neerkiloom
poor aNaintidum onRoodonRu
poruntumaakil varuntiyum
niir aNaitoru tiiyin ninRatu
kaNdataayin nikazttidee

Meaning:

Lokayata! You maintain that it is unnecessary to say it is BEING who feeds the Karma in accordance with the actions effected and because of which we have sexual differences among the creatures and reproductive processes along with it, and maintain that like pots and pans, the reproductive processes are physical in that the basic physical elements come to mix in appropriate measures and emerge as a creature. But however this NOT something observable in the world. Furthermore you maintain that physical elements are attracted to each other by gravitational forces and mixing thus create the offsprings . But again this is unacceptable for we do not see Fire attracting Water and water standing in some combination with Fire. If you have seen instances such as these, let us know.


47.

puutameevum puNarcciyee puri
kaaya kaaraNamaakumeel
kaatal aaNodu peNNum meevu
puNarcci kaaraNam aavaten
aatiyee ulakattil aaNodu
peNNumaay aNai kaariyam
naatan naayakiyoodu kuudi
nayanta kaaranam enparee


Meaning:

Lokayata ! You maintain that reproduction of creatures take place on account of the gravitational pulls the basic elements have for each other and because of which they combine in various ways producing the offsprings and so forth. Then how to explain the fact at least among the human beings this is not so and that sexual arousal that leads to conjugational activities that brings about regeneration of the species take place only on account of LOVE as such. To explain the sexual union of a male and female the wise say all these things are real in the world only because BEING, as the Androgynous Reality has a Male Aspect and a Female Aspect and there comes to be LOVE as such only because the Male looks lovingly at the Female


Notes:

AruNandi is at great pains to point out that the element of LOVE that exists among human beings and which underlies sexual union between a male and female ( possibly also among lower creatures) cannot be explained in terms of gravitational pulls that exist among the brute physical elements or even in turns of psychophysical processes underlying the biological and sexual. The world process is basically physical but written into it is the biological and in it the sexual and psychological.

The biological contains within itself the sexual differentiation. However we have now another reality -- the PSYCHOLOGICAL -- and within which emerges LOVE as such and along with it, the higher plane of existence, the SPIRITUAL.

Love between man and woman, as already studied in great depth by Tolkaapiyar, is NOT any rule governed behavior and, which woman will love which man remains immensely mystical -- always transcends any rules that we can concoct in terms of psychological or sociological principles. Finally it is concluded that LOVE between a man and woman is a matter of aruL, something that happens only because it is willed so by BEING, or as Tolkaappiyar would say 'paalatu aaNai", i.e. happens only in accordance with the DECREE of BEING.

There is LOVE in the world only because at the deepest metaphysical level there is LOVE between BEING-as-Male and BEING-as -Female, the Saivite Adam and Eve. Thus LOVE as such is not even psychical, it EXCEEDS it and because of it rather spiritual. 

The most spiritual remains manifest and phenomenal in the LOVE between a man and a woman.

ULLAGANAR

( Editing and re-paragraphing by his student )

The Tamil Hermeneutics and Metaphysics - Part 29

 IraavaNaa : He who Transgresses Ethics

Mythology is NOT simply a communicative devise the intelligent njanies devise to educate the intellectually incompetent.

It is a language by its own that embody AXIOMATIC TRUTHS, the piramaaNas in the sense of Meykandar that even the most intelligent entertain. It is dumb and mute but precisely because of that, immensely communicative of TRUTHS beyond the cluster of words and clangs of mantras.

The myths encrypt a deep truth that require deciphering and understanding and this can take the whole lifetime but even then there is no guarantee that the truth will be grasped. Like the Athicudi of Auvaiyar who invented the strategy to teach moral principles along with the Tamil alphabets (like 'aRam ceyya Virunbu" : you should love to do the good), a person learns as a 5 year old child these aphorisms only to ponder over them for the rest of his life to understand them.

The myths stay in the mind of both the njanies and the commoners flashing out INSIGHTS into the workings of the world and thereby LIGHTING UP UNDERSTANDING so that existence becomes something they understand.

IraavaNaa has figured more in the hymns of Nayanmars than Rama . This is specially so in the hymns of Appar where in almost every patikam there is a verse concerning defeat of IraavaNaa in the hands of Civa. Thus this mythical theme must have been something enormously MEANINGFUL and certainly something to do with Bakthi.

IraavaNaa, among other things is also the one who ventured to SHAKE the foundations of World Process itself, the Kailash where resides Civa with His beloved Parvathy. IraavaNaa is a prototype for anyone who, feeling mighty powerful on his own, cannot stand any CONSTRAINT whatever for his actions, someone wants to be a foundation unto himself and becomes the arch dissenter, the destroyer of whatever that stands as an authority.

But of course EXISTENCE has its own ETHICAL constraints and no matter how powerful an individual is, he too is bound to live by these elements of Dharma, and any attempt to throw them out or transgress will only result in losing everything, including the good health.

So reasons Appar in the following verse.


Appar 144

kadukiya teercelaatu kayilaaya miitu
karuteel un viiramozi nii
mudukuvatu anRu tanmammena ninRu paakan
mozivaanai nanRu muniyaa
viduvidu venRu cenRu viraivuRRu arakkan
varaiyuRRu edukka muditooL
nedunedu viRRuviiza viraluRRa paata(m)
ninaivuRRatu en tan mananee


Meaning:

Thinking that there should be NO rivals to him, including the Godhead, IraavaNaa dared to visit on a chariot Kailash itself where resides Civa with Parvathy and to shake it down destroy. The charioteer noting this with regret advised IraavaNaa saying that no chariot can ever enter Kailash and also such an act would be supremely unethical, IraavaNaa nevertheless urged on further being also very angry with him. On reaching the mountain he bent down to shake the foundations but Civa noting this pressed a little with his toes whence IraavaNaa's crown as well as the body shattered to pieces. Unable to bear the pains he cried loudly. The feet of Civa that made IraavaNaa cry thus is something I recall now in view of the current circumstances.

Commentary:

In almost every patikam Appar never fails to recall IraavaNaa and how he was humiliated by Civa and made submissive to him. Perhaps in the personality of the Mahendra Pallava, the mighty emperor who persecuted him, Appar saw the presence of IraavaNaa, the archetypal figure, the embodiment of the Evil and Unethical and in this a Saivite Anti-Christ of a sort. IraavaNaa, as the archetypal figure is something that all us are capable of becoming and hence something deep within us and hence something that can erupt into our consciousness and take possession of us
and transform our personality into something evil and of course extremely arrogant, a ten-headed fierce figure.

IraavaNaa wants to shake the very Kailash where resides Civa with his Parvathy, the WOMAN who is His equal half. Residing there HE RULES the whole universe making sure the Tanmam or Tarumam (Sanskrit Dharma), the ethical principles are NOT violated but adhered to.

Everything in the world is ruled by ETHICS with a stubbornness that we cannot overcome and hence be free. No matter how powerful politically we are, finally there is the transpersonal ETHICALITY of the actions we do and hence ultimately we are accountable to BEING in terms of the actions we do. We CANNOT transgress the ethical regulation of our praxis and which is NOT purely a matter of economical issues or even that of sharing political powers and so forth. The Ethics is there guiding our journey into the metaphysical realms and finally the Kailash , the Saivite version of the Paradise the mythical rendering of CiRRambalam, Citambaram or Tillaiampalam , the realm of absolutely Pure Consciousness and where shines Civanjanam.

IraavaNaa in the Tevaram corpus is the prototypical figure who DARES to challenge even this ethical foundation of existence itself and after destroying it rebuild it as HIS OWN, i.e. Displace Godhead and emplace himself in His place so that his will become that which is GOOD for everybody and hence that which is ethical. In other word, IraavaNaa becomes the prototypical figure of a man who would, instead of approaching BEING with genuine Bakthi, would try to become God Himself -- saying or implying "I am God" , "I am the Way" etc.

But of course IravaNaa is taught a lesson -- though mighty as an Emperor but in comparison with BEING who has the Cauldron of Power itself, Parvathy, as His equal Half, his is infinitesimal and on account of which Civa just has to press a little the hill with his toe to destroy everything that is the source of power for IraavaNaa.

He loses his crown i.e. all his political powers. And on top of that he loses his mighty shoulders, that which stands for the extremely strong physical body. For the body can become weak through diseases and old age which begin to afflict a person if he is arrogant and UNETHICAL. 

What is IMMORAL elicits the aaNavam the poison that kills if not regulated and kept under control by the Dancing Feet of BEING as Civa Nadarajah. Diseases that make a person shudder with fear and lose all the bodily strength is what comes to prevail when the ethical principles are violated.

ULLAGANAR

( editing and re-paragraphing by his student )