Transmuting the Sexual Libido and Becoming the Civayogi.
The study of GAZE, especially that of young women has been a matter of scientific analysis among the Tamils at least from the days of Tolkaappiyam.
It has been studied as part of Body Language (KuRippu Mozi) that speaks in its own way and communicates intentions deep in the heart. Even TirukkuRaL has absorbed such studies as important knowledge about nature where such insights are further developed. ( see kamattup paal)
Tirumular attends to the same but less poetically and more scientifically and in relation to the general theme of this chapter viz. human gynecology. He notices that the Vintu that is present in a women more prominently than in men, makes her develop a GAZE that would cast a magical spell upon a male making him think of her and nothing else and yearn for union with her. The man will meet premature death if he falls for it. Tirumular also describes a way, the Civayoga, as described below to overcome this weakness and which technique is called Vintu Jayam, conquering the Bindu.
The Bindu that dominates such women and makes them develop magical Gazes is a mechanism available in nature and which is necessary for species regeneration. It acts through females desiring to have the semen of the male that would fertilize the ovum and transform it into a fetus. But unfortunately when this is done to the excess and without transmuting a part or major part of it into Kalaa Vittu, as explained above, it leads to the dissipation of sexual libido along with the decay of the flesh. The KuNdalini spent thus does not get transformed into the Kalaa Vintu that would become the Lumen Naturale and which would also serve to keep active the mechanism of tissue regeneration and so forth.
The Id-like KuNdalini is a KILLER and it has to be TAMED and re-channeled so that it becomes the AMUTU, the ambrosia of eternal youthful vitality.
14.
1937.
பார்க்கின்ற மாதரைப் பாராது அகன்றுபோய்
ஓர்க்கின்ற உள்ளம் உருக அழல் மூட்டிப்
பார்க்கின்ற கண்ணாசை பாழ்பட மூலத்தே
சேர்க்கின்ற யோகி சிவயோகி தானே
உரை:
சந்தானவிருத்தியின் பொருட்டு உடலுறவுக் கொள்ள விரும்பும் கருத்தோடு காமக்கனல் எழுப்பும் வகையில் பார்க்கின்ற மாதரை அவ்வாறே தானும் பாராது அகன்றுபோய் நிற்பதோடு மட்டுமிலாது, அத்தகைய மாதரையே சதா நினைத்து மறக்கமுடியாது உள்ளம் உருக காமக்கனல் மூட்டி மீண்டும் மீண்டும் அவளைப் பார்க்கவேண்டும் எனும் கண்ணாசையும் பாழ்படும் வகையில் நாட்டத்தை எல்லாம் உள்ளிழுத்து அனைத்திற்கும் தோற்ற மூலமாகிய இறைவன் பால் சேர்த்து சிவஞானச் சிந்தனையில் தன்னை இருத்துவானே உண்மையான யோகியாகிய சிவயோகியாம்.
14.
1937.
paarkkinra maataraip paaraatu akanRu pooy
oorkkinra uLLam uruka azal muuddip
paarkkinra kaNNaacai paazpada muulattee
ceerkkinra yooki civayooki taanee
Meaning:
When women gaze with the intention to have sexual relationships that would lead to species regeneration, a man should avoid it and distance himself away from such women. Furthermore he should conquer the heart that pines for such unions thinking about them all the time with sexual desires burning inside with re-channeling the gaze towards the deepest inside, the Muulam from where springs such desires. Such a yogi is indeed the Civayogi.
15.
1938.
தானே அருளால் சிவயோகம் தங்காது
தானே அக்காமாதி தங்குவோனும் உட்கும்
தானே அதிகாரம் தங்கிற் சடங் கெடும்
ஊனே அவற்றுள் உயிர் ஓம்பா மாயுமே
உரை:
இப்படிப்பட்ட சந்தானவிருத்திக்கு ஏதுவாகிய காமத்தை வெல்லும் சிவயோகம், தான் இறையருளை வேண்டி நின்றாலே ஒழிய, அது தங்காது போம். இவ்வாறு அதனை வெல்ல முடியாது அக்காமாதிகள் தொடர்ந்தூ தங்குமா இடங் கொடுப்பான் , அத்தகைய மாதர்களிடமிருந்து பிரிந்து வாழ முடியாது பெரிதும் பேதுற்று அஞ்சுவான். இவ்வாறான அற்பக் காமத்தின் அதிகாரம் தொடர்ந்து விழாது தங்கில், சடமாகிய உடம்பு நோயுற்று கெடும். மேலும் சதைப் பிண்ட உடலாகிய அது கெட்டுக்கொண்டே வலுவிழந்து போய்விட, உயிரையும் அதனுள் இருத்தி ஓம்ப முடியாது போக, மரணம் விரைவில் வந்தமையும்.
15.
1938.
taanee aruLal civayookam taGkaatu
taanee akkaamaati taGkuvoonum udkum
taanee atikaaram taGkiR cadaG kedum
uunee avRRuL uyir oombaa maayumee.
Meaning:
Such a Civayoga will not stay firmly unless BEING blesses the individual thus. Those who are not blessed thus and fall victim for such sexual desires that stay firm in the heart, will dread the separation from such women and would pine for union with them. When such desires become excessively powerful, the bodily health will suffer and the body will begin to decay. As these deteriorations proceed, there will come a point beyond which the body becomes unsuitable for continued habitation of the anma. Then death will become a reality.
Comments:
Tirumular is not one who advocated asceticism with abstinence from sexual unions. He has said that even the gods cannot control their sexual desires (anjcum adakkiya amararum illai). Even here he advocates it in the following verses. In the Third Tantra he even articulates PariyaGka Yoga, the Yoga of sexual union as a way of eliciting the KuNdalini. However here in these verses he explains how the powerful sexual libido, the Id-like libido, unless gets re-channeled towards metaphysical thinking centering on BEING, it will lead to uncontrollable sexual passions (including incest?) that would lead to the decay of the body and hence hastening the processes leading to death.
There is a kind of GAZE of the women which would cast a magical spell upon potential males, (called maayaaL, the magical woman because of this) and making the person think of nothing else will make him also pine for a vision of her and sexual union with her. It is falling to such magical looks that Tirmular notes as those that will be death-bringing for it brings about intense pining in that also serves to cause the decay of the body.
The way to tame this and gain control over this Id-like blind passions, is to change the gaze towards the metaphysical realms, towards the Muulam, the Primordial Ground where originates all. In other words he appears to recommend a reflective kind of life where and understanding of the mysteries surrounding the origins of such intense and immensely powerful sexual desires that is so difficult to control and regulate, must be sought. WE can also see that thoughts about BEING can also serve to tame this Id beast so that mental and bodily health is also secured.
We have to penetrate into mysteries of sexual dynamics to gain control over it.
Loganathan @ Ullaganar
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